Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?!
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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.
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I tried to switch from plex to jellyfin 2 months ago, running both at the same time, but I removed jellyfin after a week
The main issue was the CPU usage, on idle Jellyfin was using about 1vcore while plex used only 0.3, no background tasks seemed to be running and after a week my 4tb of media should have been indexed
Also a feature that I use regularly with plexamp, starting a radio from a song, was not giving me good results on finamp
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The addons are great too. The intro/outro skip is slick and nearly flawless, background subtitle download is seamless, on and on.
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No, that issue can happen on Jellyfin as well, because it's happened to me. But that was before I used the Trash guides to set up Sonarr/Radarr so that Dolby Vision files were never fetched.
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Plex was bought out by venture capital and has been enshittifing for years. "Free" media stream sources added riddled with ads that you have to opt put of, opt out "everyone can see what every is watching" features, nebulous "we need to upload hashes of your media to skip credits" privacy issues, abandoning apps for various platforms like kodi, on and on.
I have a lifetime pass, but now don't consider plex a viable platform long term. The issues are not baseless, but rather based on what plex has decided to do to make even more money.
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And you are still so bad? Wowzer. Fake it till you make it I guess. Try to overcome your fear of containers, it will help you with your work.
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I gotta try those
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Easiest way to tell is to transcode something and see if your CPU spikes. If it's offloaded to the GPU it shouldn't.
Also make sure you have it configured correctly. On your Admin Dashboard under Playback > Transcoding, check that Intel QuickSync (QSV) is selected.
I have an N100 (Intel 12th gen) so I think your settings should be similar. For mine I have pretty much everything checked except for VP8, the two HEVC RExt options, and "Allow encoding in AV1 format"
