Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?!
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Lyrics work
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Anime and .ass subtitles are a bit funky but that's not due to jellyfin but the player used while streaming in direct play. (In my case)
I had the issue where on my mobile/laptop some subtitles just disappeared or where strangely formated. After some digging arround I found out that VLC was the culprit and changing the default player to MPV or alternatives like Findroid (which uses MPV as default player) everything went butter smooth in direct play !
No idea about transcoding though
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It always says there is no lyrics, do I need to do something for it to work?
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I've been using Kodi with Jellyfin for around 10 years now. I tried Plex now and then because everyone uses it but I could never get behind why everyone is using it. It has always been worse in every aspect for me.
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This is more about familiarity than difference in ease of use. I've used both, they are both super easy.
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Any recommendations about how to install all this jazz?
I'd like to build a music box controllable by the family, eventually centralising videos so anyone (or at least me) can just pick up their phone and watch an episode of star trek without the hassle of copying. Automatic subtitles would be magic.
Cheers!
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Some of it yes, the claim for example, but the rest is still pretty bad UX (and even that is stupid, I shouldn't need a claim to watch locally), I'm an experienced self hosing person and I'm getting frustrated every step of the way, imagine someone who doesn't know their way around docker or is not familiar with stuff... Jellyfin might be less polished as some claim, but setting it up is a breeze, never had to look at documentation to do it.
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I tried Jellyfin a few weeks ago and didnāt have much luck with it. I only added a couple of shows and movies just to test it but half of them just didnāt show in the library (even though it detected them as they showed in other places). Will it only show stuff in the library if it can pick up the metadata for it?
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After having been shafted by sublime text I will never believe anything called a "lifetime subscription" is such.
A "lifetime subscription" is just a "until we decide otherwise" subscription
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Jellyfin is awesome.
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if there are none locally, you can use the lrclib plugin to find lyrics
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Well youāre on Lemmy and itās not FOSS. Not a great place to get unbiased opinions on the matter. Itās actively shitted on in the fediverse. They even bum rush the plex community here.
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I don't know about using the jellyfin client but as a backend for Kodi, it's amazing
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If all you want is a local media server. It's very easy.
You pretty much just have to install Plex or Jellyfin, setup a "library" in the software.
You usually set up one library for movies and one for TV shows.
You then point these libraries to their respective folders on your hard drive and assuming you have some half decent organized media with proper naming it usually just works.Plex doesn't have automatic subtitles per say but mostly Plex players allow you to download new subtitles from the player.
I don't know about Jellyfin.If you want to have external access it's a bit harder if you use jellyfin as you will have to setup a reverse proxy but I'm guessing that there are a lot of guides for that online. Plex should work for external access out of the box assuming you have a public IP, and even if you don't you can use their automatic relay services to get it to work anyway although in very low quality.
Proper naming is honestly the hardest part but that's very dependent on how much existing media you have and how the naming is today. Luckily Plex and Jellyfin are fairly good at recognizing and finding media with subpar namin (you should still fix the naming to comply with the documentation)
If you want to have automatic torrent downloads, fully automatic subtitles and all that it's quite some work to set it up properly and have it working without any input from you.
If you want to tackle it (or are just curious), I recommend checking out https://trash-guides.info/ -
it will still shows stuff in the library even if it failed to pick up the metadata.
for jellyfin, folder structure is kinda important for auto detection to work.
For shows, you can organises your files like this:
series-name-a/ season-01/ episode-01 episode-02You can check out the doc, it is more detailed
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Many ways to install it officially nowadays (see their website) but most do it via docker. A very easy albeit unoffical way is via flatpak.
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How long did you give it? It indexes the library. I had to rebuild my library once, and while I don't have a huge collection - mainly just rips of my DVD collection, about 450 films, and it takes over an hour to index everything. Until it's done, not everything shows up.
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what are the things i will miss from plex's pre-enshittification?
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Not having to pay for hardware transcoding/tonemapping is the biggest āsellingāpoint for Jellyfin. I used to have plex before. It worked well but I didnāt want to pay 100ā¬ for transcoding. Never tried emby for the very same reason.
