Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users
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What's your setup and hardware look like? I'm just curious.
My jellyfin service has been up for about six months, and has played probably 100+ shows and movies, for myself internally and a few external clients over that time. My hardware is a HP elite desk mini and a 10TB USB HDD
I have some ancient desktop that accesses media on my NAS. I run Plex on the same PC no problem. Stopped running Jellyfin because of the above-mentioned issues.
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Jellyfin for me sucks. Not the server, the client. It works great on my wife's machine but whenever I wanna watch something I get constant issues with crashing and seeking not working.
Sounds like a transcoding issue which AFAIK can depend on the machine you try to play this with. Doesn't really solve your problem other than next time get something that's better at playing more video formats, which is a hilarious and silly problem to have these days.
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For me, who has several streaming subscriptions (Netflix,...), this allows me to have a unified library and to be able to launch Netflix from Plex. Is it possible to do the same thing with jellyfin?
No, I don't think so
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agree in principal, but in practice:
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parents who live across the state
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plexamp for music
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You absolutely need to be careful sharing your own media with people outside your household as that's probably illegal. If you still need to you can setup a VPN.
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The Jellyfin music player has recently seen a lot of love
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Jellyfin always irrecoverably crashes for me over time. It also suffers from permissions issues where videos won't play sometimes due to a a transcode folder being full or something like that.
I want to use it but it always breaks.
I've used it for about 2 years and it has been mostly stable. The only major issue I had was about a year and a half ago where it got stuck in a infinite crash due to a corrupt database. It was a known bug that was fixed.
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Jellyfin always irrecoverably crashes for me over time. It also suffers from permissions issues where videos won't play sometimes due to a a transcode folder being full or something like that.
I want to use it but it always breaks.
The sqlite database that Jellyfin uses tends to get corrupted easily, especially if the disk gets full.
The main big feature that Jellyfin devs are working right now is a complete overhaul of the internal database system:
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Can’t figure out why you would use Plex over jellyfin
Probably the biggest reason is that it makes it so easy to securely share across the internet. With JF you're on your own and you can really fuck things up. If you're just running it on your LAN the JF is the obvious choice.
There are plenty of VPN solutions.
Get something like Netbird and share the port.
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I’m running Plex with the Xbox One Digital TV Tuner for live TV channels. Would that work with Jellyfin now? When I set this system up, Plex was the only thing that I got to work.
I use the HDhomerun
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I use the HDhomerun
I have no experience of actual HdHomerun devices, but I tried emulating HDHomerun with tvheadend and antennas when I was setting up. I didn’t get that to work with Plex, so I’m not sure that would work with jellyfin either. It wouldn’t make sense to buy new equipment since Plex works fine with what I already own (and I generally avoid buying USA products)
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You absolutely need to be careful sharing your own media with people outside your household as that's probably illegal. If you still need to you can setup a VPN.
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The Jellyfin music player has recently seen a lot of love
- So it has sonic analysis and sonic adventures? It has “stations”?
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Why would you waste your energy and manage something yourself when they collect your data anyway?
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Jellyfin for me sucks. Not the server, the client. It works great on my wife's machine but whenever I wanna watch something I get constant issues with crashing and seeking not working.
This is why I’ve stuck with Emby.
I get why people switched, and I’m open to it eventually, but Emby is much more polished. That’s not to say the Emby clients don’t also crash from time to time.
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You absolutely need to be careful sharing your own media with people outside your household as that's probably illegal. If you still need to you can setup a VPN.
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The Jellyfin music player has recently seen a lot of love
I would be genuinely surprised if fair use draws the line on format-shifted, legally purchased media, at "remote watch-together", leaving format-shifting and local watch-together in-tact.
If it were up to the studio's interpretation of the law, you'd need to purchase a license for each person during local watch-together.
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Jellyfin for me sucks. Not the server, the client. It works great on my wife's machine but whenever I wanna watch something I get constant issues with crashing and seeking not working.
If you're trying to watch 4k content in a browser, AFAIK, Edge is the only one capable.
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I have no experience of actual HdHomerun devices, but I tried emulating HDHomerun with tvheadend and antennas when I was setting up. I didn’t get that to work with Plex, so I’m not sure that would work with jellyfin either. It wouldn’t make sense to buy new equipment since Plex works fine with what I already own (and I generally avoid buying USA products)
That's fair
However I have to say the HDhomerun has been fantastic. It is a simple device that provides a local web API that allows devices on the network to request a channel stream. My device died after a few years and they replaced it for free.
If Plex works for you that's great. However if your current setup breaks I would look into the HDhomerun
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Sounds like a transcoding issue which AFAIK can depend on the machine you try to play this with. Doesn't really solve your problem other than next time get something that's better at playing more video formats, which is a hilarious and silly problem to have these days.
Its a windows desktop lmao.
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If you're trying to watch 4k content in a browser, AFAIK, Edge is the only one capable.
Nah, the dedicated client.
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Its a windows desktop lmao.
Lmao indeed.
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That's fair
However I have to say the HDhomerun has been fantastic. It is a simple device that provides a local web API that allows devices on the network to request a channel stream. My device died after a few years and they replaced it for free.
If Plex works for you that's great. However if your current setup breaks I would look into the HDhomerun
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Can't figure out why you would use Plex over jellyfin, I have a life time pass to Plex, I haven't used it in years, this isn't about money, it's about not having garbage running on your machine.
I have been trying to use jellyfin locally but subtitles have issues some times depending on the show or format. Also recently my wife watched 2 episodes more than me so we needed to go back 2 episodes and only way to do that from the Up Next or Resume screens was to start a new search of the show and click into the season and then find the episode. I get supporting open source but for my jellyfin only has 70% of the features I use weekly on Plex. Definitely supporting it and trying to use it but it's not feature parity for me
