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

Xanza@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• amorpheus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It was unnecessarily complex to accommodate their cloud infrastructure setup.

  Please elaborate how you needed to “accommodate their cloud infrastructure setup”.

  When I set my server up years ago all I did was log in on the web interface. Literally as simple as any other service.

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  • Xanza@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    When I set my server up years ago all I did was log in on the web interface. Literally as simple as any other service.

    They make you register with their own website to login to your local instance… That’s you jumping through hoops to accommodate their cloud bullshit;

    It’s important to understand that Plex Media Server does not have its own graphical user interface. When you run the server on your computer, NAS, or other device, you won’t see a window open with a “server UI” or similar. Instead, you use our web app to manage your server.

    It’s so fucking unnecessary.

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• TheBeesKnees@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Has Jellyfin improved its subtitle fetching?It’s been awhile since using Jellyfin. I stayed with Plex because downloading subtitles on the fly wasn’t available in Jellyfin, and no extensions for it either.

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  • Xanza@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I guess it depends on when you last used it. I opt for the CLI approach, but Jellyfin can install a plugin which allows (on library scan) to extract internal subtitles, which fixes 90% of issues with subtitle display for devices like Chromecasts.

    Jellyfin also integrates with OpenSubstiles: i.xno.dev/gVee6.png

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