No NAS at home, the network environment has no IPV6 and no public IPV4, so DDNS to the soft router is not possible, using the mobile large intranetzerotierthe speed of tailscale is also unstable (I tried self hosting zerotier moon and the improvement was not great), and doing intranet penetration from a computer within 24 hours is unrealistic, and I want to give family and friends a good viewing experience (not in the same neighborhood), so I could only adopt this solution on the Alibaba Cloud server with only 3M bandwidth and weak performancejellyfin+alist+rclone + medialink

In addition, recently because Aliyun Drive restrictions are becoming more and more strict, even if you have opened the third party rights package, without svip you will be subject to QPS limits, possibly 2 to 3 times within 1 minute, and scraping data will reach the risk control standard. To ensure the viewing experience, you need to reduce the number of times the cloud drive is accessed as much as possible (of course strm files are also possible, personally after trying I felt there were more bugs so I did not use them)

By fronting with emby or jellyfin, it can solve the scraping problem without a magic device, and also let software such as infuse and kodi no longer scrape directly but instead get data from emby or jellyfin, which largely avoids risk control, so I adopted this solution and recorded my complete operation and pitfalls

However, in this way, the jellyfin web end and clientcannot play videos, but adding jellyfin through infuse, kodi, senplayer and so on canplay perfectly

I chosejellyfininstead ofembybecause of the network environment of Alibaba Cloud ECS,jellyfinit can be very convenient to useDoubanfor scraping

jellyfinInstall on the host machine, because installing jellyfin with docker has a synchronization bug. After rclone mounts alist locally to mnt, and mnt is mapped into the jellyfin container, when the alist video updates, even if rclone manually updates the mounted files under mnt, the data in the jellyfin container will still have a bug where it cannot update

rclone

Pitfall: rememberrcloneit is best tomount youralistofroot directory During testing, it kept failing, and I found the log error as follows The access path is /177/TS/xxx (2024)/Season 1/S01E09 - 2160p.H.265.WEB-DL.AAC.mp4 A path/TVwas lost, the correct one should be /177/TV/TS/xxx (2024)/Season 1/S01E09 - 2160p.H.265.WEB-DL.AAC.mp4

Later I changed it to the root directory and everything was normal. Of course, it may also have been caused by other setting configuration errors at the time

First choose a folder you want to install to Official tutorial Install  rclone config docs 

Install

mkdir /opt/rclone

cd /opt/rclone
curl -O https://downloads.rclone.org/rclone-current-linux-amd64.zip

sudo apt update          # Update package list
sudo apt install unzip   # Install unzip tool

unzip rclone-current-linux-amd64.zip   # Extract rclone zip file
cd rclone-*-linux-amd64              # Enter the extracted rclone directory
sudo cp rclone /usr/bin/            # Copy the rclone binary file to the /usr/bin/ directory
sudo chown root:root /usr/bin/rclone  # Set the file owner to root:root
sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/rclone       # Set file permissions to 755，Allow execution

#Verify whether installation succeeded
rclone --version        # Display rclone version information

Mount to rclone

After installation, you can mount alist, enterrclone config Note that the name in the second step cannot be an existing folder in Linux!!!

Then according to the prompts, enter in order jellyfin直链alist阿里云盘-20250101.png

  1. n
  2. Custom name, such as aliyunpan 1-jellyfin直链alist阿里云盘-20250101.png
  3. webdav, sequence number55 2-jellyfin直链alist阿里云盘-20250101.png When filling in the URL, be careful to add dav https://网址/dav

4-jellyfin直链alist阿里云盘-20250101.png Choose 7

After that are the username and password 3-jellyfin直链alist阿里云盘-20250101.png

After that, just keep pressing Enter

Enter q to quit

#Verify whether the mount is successful
rclone lsd custom name (do not omit the colon):
rclone lsd aliyunpan:

Mount to local

Among them

  • --dir-cache-time 1m:
    The directory structure cache validity period is 1 minutes
  • --poll-interval 15s:
    Every 15 seconds check the remote storage for file changes This avoids manual rclone synchronization. After an alist file is updated, it can be updated locally within 1 minute

Mount to local

Note that here I am using Alibaba Cloud Drive

# aliyunpan:/177 /mnt/177 is custom
#The format is the name before:/路径  /mnt/local path
#Remember to create the folder in advance


rclone mount aliyunpan:/177 /mnt/177 \
    --use-mmap \
    --umask 000 \
    --allow-other \
    --allow-non-empty \
    --dir-cache-time 1m \
    --poll-interval 15s \
    --cache-dir=/path/to/cache \
    --vfs-cache-mode full \
    --buffer-size 256M \
    --vfs-read-chunk-size 32M \
    --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 512M \
    --vfs-cache-max-size 10G \
    --vfs-cache-max-age 1h \
    --network-mode \
    --no-check-certificate \
    --default-permissions \
    --header "Referer:https://www.aliyundrive.com/" \
    --daemon

# Verify whether the mount is successful
df -H

Check the local folder. At this point, the content in the alist cloud drive should already appear

Automatically mount on startup

vim /etc/systemd/system/reclone.service


Fill in
[Unit]
Description=rclone mount aliyunpan:/177 to /mnt/177
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/rclone mount aliyunpan:/177 /mnt/177 \
    --use-mmap \
    --umask 000 \
    --allow-other \
    --allow-non-empty \
    --dir-cache-time 1m \
    --poll-interval 15s \
    --cache-dir=/path/to/cache \
    --vfs-cache-mode full \
    --buffer-size 256M \
    --vfs-read-chunk-size 32M \
    --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 512M \
    --vfs-cache-max-size 10G \
    --vfs-cache-max-age 1h \
    --network-mode \
    --no-check-certificate \
    --default-permissions \
    --header "Referer:https://www.aliyundrive.com/"
ExecStop=/bin/fusermount -u /mnt/177
Restart=on-failure
TimeoutSec=30

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target



sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable reclone.service
sudo systemctl start reclone.service

sudo systemctl status reclone.service

Install jellyfin

docker pull jellyfin/jellyfin
# Create Jellyfin data folder
mkdir /opt/1panel/apps/jellyfin/config # configuration directory mount,jellyfin The plugins in are all under this directory
mkdir /opt/1panel/apps/jellyfin/cache # cache directory mount
# font files, to avoid jellyfin white boxes appearing during scraping
# your reclone location of the mounted files

docker run -d \
    --name jellyfin \
    --net=host \
    -e http_proxy=127.0.0.1:20172 \
    -e https_proxy=127.0.0.1:20172 \
    -e all_proxy=127.0.0.1:20172 \
    --volume /opt/1panel/apps/jellyfin/config:/config \
    --volume /opt/1panel/apps/jellyfin/cache:/cache \
    --volume /usr/share/fonts:/usr/local/share/fonts \
    --mount type=bind,source=/mnt,target=/mnt \
    --restart=unless-stopped \
    jellyfin/jellyfin

After that, remember to allow the corresponding port 8096 in the Alibaba Cloud firewall

If you are not using a proxy, just use the Douban scraper

If you are not using a proxy, delete the three lines above

    -e http_proxy=127.0.0.1:20172 \ 
    -e https_proxy=127.0.0.1:20172 \
    -e all_proxy=127.0.0.1:20172 \

Install the Douban scraper

In the jellyfin repository Add this link https://mirror.ghproxy.com/https://github.com/cxfksword/jellyfin-plugin-metashark/releases/download/manifest/manifest_cn.json

jellyfin直链alist阿里云盘-20241123.png Install this plugin, then select and use it

Server side plugin installation

/opt/1panel/apps/jellyfin/config/plugins

media reverse proxy

/home/MediaLinker/

chen3861229/embyExternalUrl: some emby/jellyfin scripts

docker run -d \
  --name MediaLinker \
  --network host \
  -v /home/MediaLinker/:/opt/ \
  thsrite/medialinker:latest

jellyfin needs to be modified in five places according to the configuration file instructions


const embyHost = "";
const embyApiKey = "";
const mediaMountPath = ["/mnt"];
const alistAddr = "";

// Note jellyfin starts with a lowercase letter mediaSourceId
  keyExpression: "r.uri:r.args.mediaSourceId", // "r.uri:r.args.MediaSourceId:r.args.X-Emby-Device-Id"

Then restart MediaLinker Also remember to allow port 8091

After that, you can add it and enjoy watching 1-jellyfin直链alist阿里云盘-20241123.png

KODi

Install the infuse and kodi plugins in jellyfin Players such as infuse and Senplayer all addjellyfin sourceand that is enough

Kodi | Jellyfin official introduction kodi needs to install the jellyfin official repositoryKodi | Jellyfin Official Repository

Just install Jellyfin. Personally I think jellycon is not as good as jellyfin, so just pick one.

Use plugin mode jellyfin直链alist阿里云盘-20260315125846517.png

Summary

jellyfin
http://127.0.0.1:8096

medialink
nginx port, default 8091
nginx ssl port, default 8095
automatically forward the port to the backend 8096

Other Issues

Jellyfin font white box issue

Releases, notofonts noto-cjk Download All Variable OTF/OTC

# rename to for example noto-serif-cjk.zip
#upload to/usr/share/fonts/
cd /usr/share/fonts/
unzip noto-serif-cjk.zip 

#refresh font cache
sudo fc-cache -fv
#delete the previous cover and refresh metadata
#then restart jellyfin and mediaLink（if already installed)