Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?!
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any reason to use this over real debrid + stremio?
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I am very confused here. You seem to have slipped from arguing that it was difficult and complicated to arguing that it's bad to be able to share content remotely because it's a felony, which seems like a pretty big leap.
For one thing, it's not illegal and I do rip my own media. I will access it from my phone or my laptop remotely whenever I want, thank you very much.
For another, and this has been my question all along, how is it possibly more difficult and complicated to have remote access ready to go than being "a DNS record away"? Most end users don't even know what a DNS is.
And yes, not having (obvious) server configurations up front is transparent. That's what I'm saying. It does mix at least two sources (their unavoidable, rather intrusive free streaming TV stuff and your library), but it doesn't demand that you set it up. The entire idea is to not have to worry about whether it's local content. Like I said, there are edge cases where that can lead to a subpar experience (mainly when it's downsampling your stuff to route it the long way around without telling you), but from a UX perspective I do get prioritizing serving you the content over warning you of networking issues.
I don't know, man, I'm not saying you shouldn't prefer Jellyfin. I wouldn't know, I never used it long enough to have a particularly strong opinion. I just don't get this approach where having the thing NOT surface a bunch of technical stuff up front reads as "complicated and difficult". I just get hung up on that.
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You seem to have slipped from arguing that it was difficult and complicated to arguing that it’s bad
These are the same thing...
For one thing, it’s not illegal and I do rip my own media.
Soon as you share it over the Internet it is. You need a license from the IP holder to do that.
how is it possibly more difficult and complicated to have remote access ready to go than being “a DNS record away”?
- They're effectively the same.
- Plex forces you to use their way. It's more difficult because it's not the way most people would want to do it in a selfhost environment.
It does mix at least two sources (their unavoidable, rather intrusive free streaming TV stuff and your library), but it doesn’t demand that you set it up.
I mean yeah, it doesn't demand anything because it doesn't give you an option. lol
I don’t know, man, I’m not saying you shouldn’t prefer Jellyfin.
And I'm not saying that you should prefer Jellyfin. But to call Plex "easier" than jellyfin is verifiably an incorrect statement--which is what I've been saying since the beginning here. The way Plex forces you to do things isn't easier at all.
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I tried Jellyfin years ago, it is in my test for later todo since then, it was pretty vanilla compared to my Plex Media Server (for instance I couldn't get to work the transcoder to use quick sync to lower the CPU load if needed, meanwhile Plex worked fine with the Docker container even).
With that said, I stopped using Plex daily in order to give some use to my Real Debrid account (so Stremio and Kodi are the next logical alternatives for me) and because I only have a two bay NAS with 10 TB in total, and I like to hoard so I struggle every time I need to delete something, since I knew about Riven/Zurg/Rclone/DMM combo I have returned using Plex without worrying each day about my drives, keeping it updated and enjoying the thinkering process of this new experience, also sharing the love with a couple of friends, I see no need to try Jellyfin, even after that many years.
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Storing media locally is great on the off chance your internet goes out, in addition if there’s shows that RD hasn’t cached yet and have no seeders.
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Audiobookshelf is absolutely awesome for audiobooks. Tho it's possible, Jellyfin isn't really very audiobook friendly imo. Just run both.
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I bought an 13th Gen Asus Nuc with an i7 running Debian headless and a hard-disk bay for my setup, previously all I was using was a Rasp Pi 4, I honestly don’t know if my Jellyfin instance is utilizing the CPU’s iGPU not really sure how to tell.
Running lspci in the shell does return
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Different devices. iOS, android, AppleTV. Most of it is likely Apple’s fault for the limited options in the ecosystem tho.
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Rd has no issues torrenting stuff? If it isnt cached it downloads it for me faster than my internet could lol. Thats a good idea tho, but typically if I lose internet, I've also lost power.
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It shouldn't really matter where you've got your files as long as they're mounted on a standard path. Maybe try creating a symlink from where your media is to a standard path like
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Plex has recently started applying a green filter to certain content.
The files Plex has a problem with work just fine in Jellyfin.
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Ugh, yeah. I guess I’ll definitely have to try it!
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I guess it’s worth trying rather than relying on vague internet comments. I’ll set it up for myself, then I can try apps on the various platforms as I visit people, etc.
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Yeah tried that. It doesn't even recognize standard paths like ~/user directory
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Yeah I suspect I’m going to like it.
I think I’m going to set it up to run in parallel, then I’ll be ready to try it on people’s various devices as I get access to them.
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Green filter? Are you talking about the issue where you try to play Dolby Vision content on a non DV TV?
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The same movie works on the roku Plex app with the embedded subtitles just fine.
Also findroid is an android app that has more features than the native app
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¯\(ツ)/¯ what do I know, I only do this for a living plus manage a couple of home servers with dozens of services for almost a decade.
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It's less painful than it sounds. You install the server pointed at your media files set up the same shares as you have for Plex. There's not a lot of finagling there
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Nope, I still use Emby myself. Although I'm in the process of switching to Jellyfin I think. I have it running separately to sort of evaluate it. Jellyfin was a fork of Emby, so there are a lot of similarities.
