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Jellyfin is not just good... but better than Plex now?! (vger.social)

submitted 15 hours ago by aeharding@vger.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I've feel like I've used Plex forever. I also feel like every couple years I try Jellyfin to see how it's going. Recently I tried it again because of Plex restriction on more than one user.

Well, I just tried it again and it's substantially improved! This time it actually properly detected most of my library!

Also the Android TV app is AWESOME! No more glitches, lagging, and freezing trying to play my stuff like Plex did. It is butter smooth.

Wow! I'm impressed and I just deleted Plex. Good riddance.

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[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Although I have my issues with plex, jellyfin has its own problems:

STILL can't clear out the TS transcoded files automatically. So if you watch a bunch of TV episodes on a weekend, your jellyfin container will run out of space and break.
STILL can't handle subtitles properly. I swear, this must be jellyfin's Waterloo.
jellyfin cannot demux 5.1 and present stereo sound on certain streams. I think this is a tooling issue. But it's low level enough that I can handle it manually with mkvtoolnix myself on the few cases it happens.

[–] notfromhere@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I’ll have to check but I haven’t had an issue with the transcoded files filling up.
Subtitles work as expected for me but all of my file names are in English, are the ones you’re having problems with file names in another language perchance?
That last one I fixed myself by wrapping ffmpeg around a script I wrote that forces 5.1 to transcode to AC3 so it goes to my speakers properly.

[+] non_burglar@lemmy.world -11 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 57 minutes ago) (2 children)

" not a problem for me!"

Why even bother replying?

If you search for the issues I mentioned, you'll find I'm not the only one.

Edit: I may have overreacted

[–] notfromhere@lemmy.ml 16 points 4 hours ago

I was replying to maybe share the wrapper script I wrote, but if you’re going to be a jerk about it…

[–] windlas@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

So other people who might be considering Jellyfin vs Plex know that your problems aren't universal?

I'm in the same boat as the other person. Ive had Jellyfin running for years, watch something on it daily, and have never had the container break due to transcodes not being removed.

Maybe its just you and your setup?

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 1 points 59 minutes ago

Sorry, maybe that was a knee jerk.

Don't get me wrong. I like jellyfin and I try to use it over Plex most days. But it does have out-of-the-box issues.

I've installed jellyfin several times with both docker and bare metal methods over the last 4 years. The transcodes have been an issue every time.

Maybe its my usage, but watching roughly 5 episodes of a show fills up roughly 3gb of the /var/lib/jellyfin/transcodes folder. In a 4gb container image, that's death. Jellyfin is the only container I need to expand to 16gb to adequately deal with this.

The default transcodes cleanup task is limited to every 24h at smallest interval, the option "delete segments" does absolutely nothing (I've watched).

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

This last one is why I have to use Plex instead of jellyfin on my tv. The jellyfin roku app fuckin sucks and refuses to demux anything.