Installing Jellyfin as a Podman Quadlet

Jellyfin is everyone’s favourite open-source multimedia player. This guide goes over how to install it as a Podman Quadlet. This assumes you already have Podman setup for Quadlets. Follow this guide to setup Podman for Quadlets.

Create the container

First, create and edit sudo nvim ~/containers/jellyfin.container, if you don’t use Neovim, replace nvim with whichever text editor you prefer.

Paste the follwing. Replace {USER} with your user, {PUID} with the value of id {USER} -u, {PGID} with the value of id {USER} -g, and change your time zone accordingly. Replace the volumes with your prefered config and media folder. Save and exit.

[Unit]
Description=Podman - Jellyfin
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Container]
Image=lscr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin:latest
AutoUpdate=registry
ContainerName=jellyfin
Environment=PUID=1000
Environment=PGID=100
Environment=TZ=America/St_Johns
Volume=/home/{USER}/services/jellyfin:/config
Volume=/home/{USER}/movies:/movies
Volume=/home/{USER}/tv:/tv
PublishPort=8096:8096
PublishPort=8920:8920
PublishPort=7359:7359/udp
PublishPort=1900:1900/udp

[Service]
Restart=always
TimeoutStartSec=900

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
# vim: set filetype=systemd :

Themes

If you would like to use themes from https://theme-park.dev/, add the following lines to the [Container] section. I prefer their dracula theme. More themes are here. This works with all Linuxserver images.

Environment=DOCKER_MODS=ghcr.io/themepark-dev/theme.park:jellyfin
Environment=TP_THEME=dracula

If you want to utilize a Nvidia card, you will need to utilize Nvidia Container Toolkit. A guide for this will come later and I will link to it here.

Load and start the Jellyfin service

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start jellyfin.service

You’ll be able to access Jellyfin from http://{SERVER_IP}:8096. Check the linuxserver jellyfin github for any extra configuration not covered in this guide.