Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?!
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I had the opposite. Jellyfin just works. Plex kept losing my movie folders, refused to play videos, wouldn’t screen cast, had problems with audio tracks, there always seemed to be a disconnect between app and server, they refused to connect despite both being the correct versions. It worked great initially, but got steadily more and more problematic over time. I gave up, even though I’d paid for it, and made a jellyfin server and have had zero trouble since.
Don’t know why two programs should have such radically different experiences, they should just do what they’re supposed to.
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Maybe when the merge transcoded downloads on the official clients. rn depending on streamyfin
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The quality was probably bad because you were routed through Plex Relay services which have a bandwidth limit. It is honestly quite a nice free service because it means it will work pretty much regardless how your network is setup but the quality will be bad.
If you want to directly connect to your server you need a public IP so CGNAT won't do you might also have to open some ports. -
I've been using Plex for over 10 years and I can't say anything about it has changed for the worse honestly
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My wife uses the Kodi app on Android TV just fine.
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We have different requirements apparently. I don't need user management and we only watch on our TV (plus myself using Jellyfin as backend for Symfonium).
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Another case of user matching tag
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The only problem I'm having with jellyfin is around subtitles, but it's getting better all the time. I bought the plex lifetime license a few years ago, but we've moved our whole house to jellyfin now.
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They both suck.
Long live Stremio.
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It works pretty well for me but I separate anime and TV/movies, and make sure the anime library is only scraping data from anime-centric databases. But I'm also not watching too much new or obscure stuff.
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I never used Plex. Up until my kids were born I used to just watch my videos on my desktop, but now I find myself watching on my phone and TV more often. My Jellyfin server has been super stable for the last 6 months or so running on a super low powered machine and external hard drive. The only issues I have is with movies with Dolby digital, they tend to get out of sync when scrubbing the timeline. I am assuming that is due to the lower power of the machine. But, I have a 400watt desktop with a 7th gen i7 and a pascal Quadro P1000 that I am planning on migrating to. Then adding a 20tb internal drive for storage. Hopefully that will resolve the small issues I have seen with it.
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I actually prefer the Jellyfin client to the Kodi client by a lot. Using Kodi on top just adds more unneeded complexity and reloading libraries in my experience.
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Then they shouldn't be called lifetime subscriptions. This seems like a really smarmy justification of a shitty business practice.
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Agree 100%. Most of the former Plex users turned Jellyfin users I have come across did so better Plex was broken in some way for them. For me it was the general lack of care in creating/maintaining a good Apple TV app. Over the past few years it's just gotten buggier and buggier with a lot of complaints on the Plex forums where devs would essentially stop by to say they weren't working on any fixes.
Jellyfin doesn't fix 100% of the issues, but at least there is active development on Swiftfin that showed a desire to fully support all devices.
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after like the 3rd time I was forced stop it from hiding my library and them pushing services in my face
Seeing shit like this makes me wonder what different Plex I'm using from everyone else. Pinned my local library at the top 4 years ago and now every device shows that tab first when logging in and hasn't ever behaved differently except when the home server is down (it'll still go to the tab but read OFFLINE)
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Not having a dedicated app on the LG TV is not an option.
There’s your first problem.
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Hopefully it doesn't require Docker?
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I feel like 20 years ago someone made a similar realization with Linux vs windows
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That makes zero sense.
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You can also change the directories names, appending [MVDB ID], so that for the future if you ever happen to have to reinstall jellyfin, it'll automatically repopulate them how they were
