Stream Your Own Library: Jellyfin, Navidrome and Audiobookshelf on Proxmox: Hardware Transcoding, Metadata, Users and Remote Access Done Right

Stream Your Own Library turns the films, albums, audiobooks and podcasts you already own into a private streaming service that runs on your Proxmox server: Jellyfin for films and series, Navidrome for music and Audiobookshelf for audiobooks and podcasts, each in its own Compose stack, with an Intel iGPU doing the heavy lifting and Tailscale as the way in from anywhere. Every command, path and setting is checked against the projects' official docs in October 2026, with diagrams instead of walls of text.

What you get

• Where it runs on Proxmox: LXC or VM for media, a read-only media share through a bind mount, separate config and cache, and one Compose stack per server
• Hardware transcoding that really works: Intel Quick Sync passed into an unprivileged LXC with Device Passthrough (or a whole iGPU into a VM), the right render group gid, and how to prove the GPU is doing the work with vainfo and intel_gpu_top
• Jellyfin done properly: the folder names it expects for films and series, metadata providers, subtitles, users, parental controls and SyncPlay
• Navidrome for music: why tags matter more than filenames, Subsonic and OpenSubsonic apps for every platform, and transcoding for mobile data
• Audiobookshelf: the folder layout for authors, series and narrators, podcasts, metadata matching and progress that follows you across devices
• Clients and playback: direct play vs direct stream vs transcode, what forces a transcode, which app for which screen, and offline downloads
• Remote access the right way: Tailscale first, Tailscale Serve for HTTPS names, a reverse proxy only when you truly need a public URL, and never a port-forwarded app
• Backups, updates and upgrades: what to back up for each server, pinned image tags, and an upgrade routine that has a way back

63 pages, 23 diagrams plus a chapter-opener graphic for every chapter, a checklist and a cheat sheet. PDF and EPUB. Homelab the Right Way, Book 10.

Not sure yet? Read the free sample first: the cover, the full table of contents and all of Chapter 3, "Hardware Transcoding" (pass an Intel GPU into an unprivileged Proxmox container or a VM, give it to Jellyfin's container, choose QSV with the right codecs, and prove the GPU is really transcoding), at https://payhip.com/b/5XGgh

Also in a bundle: Everything Bundle: every ebook in the store, $89 · Homelab Bundle, $59.