Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?!
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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.
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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.
