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

submitted 4 months 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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[–] keyez@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I've been using plex for several years and setup jellyfin a few months ago to tinker with it. Playing videos works fine for me locally but I have some family out of state who have access and jellyfin doesn't have a solution for that outside of me publicly sharing the URL and managing the passwords. Also a pain point for me is having multiple files of different quality for the same movie/episode, it always shows as two episodes that it will play back to back and seems to require a lot of manual work per show/movie to get it tracked as 1 piece of media with 2 files to choose from. Would love to ditch Plex eventually but for me and my family it just works without issue and they can manage their own remote login.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I feel like 20 years ago someone made a similar realization with Linux vs windows

Edit: i remember people telling me how good Linux was in 2010ish (so maybe 20 years was wrong), so idk…

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[–] brookdale05@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Am I the only one here using emby? I’m pretty happy with it honestly.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I installed Mint last week and haven't addressed media players yet... strokes chin. Thanks for the info!

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