Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?!
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It is…..if you use a computer. Their AppleTV app still looks like some random coder’s pet project with random playback issues.
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I quit streaming services around 4 months ago, determined the exact maximum streaming quality every device I own can handle, used a $60 used office PC from craigslist, admittedly I haven't fully figured out how to get subtitles to work without transcoding, but I just need to sit down and figure it out at some point.
I direct stream all of my content from a 10+ yr old PC and it uses less than 5% cpu while watching a 4k movie. I could stream to easily 5-10 PC's and still likely be able to do software maintenance on the PC at the same time.
That and with how jellyfin looks like a streaming service, with no transcoding it's better than any streaming service. Nearly every streaming service you use is transcoding on the fly instead of storing 20versions of each video for direct streaming, direct streaming a previously encoded asset will always deliver a higher quality viewing experience. -
I would bet that the problem is with Plex being inside docker. Might be one of those situations where being more experienced causes issues because I'm trying to do things "right" and not run the service on my server directly or with root or on network host mode.
But being inside a container causes these many issues I can't even begin to imagine how it would be to get it to do more complex stuff like be accessible through Tailscale or being behind authorization.
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Yes. You set hardware encoding to QSV, then you're mostly set. You can choose which formats it should work on, which for an Arc card will probably be all of them. I got an Arc A380 and its worked flawlessly with many streams at once.
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Sounds like it's mostly with embedded subs inside the media files already. Thats where all my subs are so I'm going to test soon but haven't played anything on jellyfin needing subs in a while
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Yeah, I don't 100% love that's on my default but I also don't think it's a huge deal
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I now extract all my subs, but for the first 2 years using it I left everything embedded and it always worked normally. Even with some advanced ones like Jujutsu Kaisen and One Pace, which both use stylized ones.
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I was just thinking yesterday - when was the last time we server owners actually had a feature update? I think last one I noticed was credits skip, and that was... 3 years ago? About?
Meanwhile Jellyfin apparently has been developing full steam ahead, I noticed credit skips in my test instance yesterday.
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I started with Kodi and added Jellyfin later
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What do you mean library losses. I've been using jellyfin twoish years now and have never had this happen.
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The app on my LG TV is acceptable, but does have random problems, like it can't connect over TLS, and it's kinda slow to navigate. But it works, and my kids know how to work it.
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You people do realize that you can use the Plex server without using the Plex apps right? I pretty much exclusively use Infuse to interface with my Plex server and have none of the issues I see mentioned here.
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Just tested and with Findroid on my phone, no subtitle options appeared at all, though it had 4 languages embedded. On my roku they showed up but as soon as I picked it it loaded until it said Error During Playback
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I also use it on an LG TV and sometimes it can't run at its normal framerate with subtitles on. I haven't figured out why yet, but it might be embedded files like someone else says in this thread. Other than that it works like a charm.
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Android TV and any file with embedded subtitles. Only external subtitles, if present, are shown. I understood that is because I'm using AMD hardware encoding and I assumed it was unfixable. Didn't investigate more as I'm going to switch to Intel soon
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Sorry, maybe that was a knee jerk.
Don't get me wrong. I like jellyfin and I try to use it over Plex most days. But it does have out-of-the-box issues.
I've installed jellyfin several times with both docker and bare metal methods over the last 4 years. The transcodes have been an issue every time.
Maybe its my usage, but watching roughly 5 episodes of a show fills up roughly 3gb of the /var/lib/jellyfin/transcodes folder. In a 4gb container image, that's death. Jellyfin is the only container I need to expand to 16gb to adequately deal with this.
The default transcodes cleanup task is limited to every 24h at smallest interval, the option "delete segments" does absolutely nothing (I've watched).
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Nearly every streaming service you use is transcoding on the fly instead of storing 20versions of each video
If you're talking about commercial streaming services like Netflix, I highly doubt that. If you're talking about self-hosted services like Plex, then you're absolutely right.
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Same. The only issue I've had is it not finding my TV shows, but once I figured out how it wants them stored, no issues whatsoever.
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My guess would be internal networking issue preventing the two from talking
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Jellyfin is so underrated
