It’s the setup which doesn’t pass the “wife” test. The more setup friction, the lower the likelihood that average users will bother. It requires a very easy setup experience to retain the average user. Even us technical people have limited time in the day. If I get a similar experience out of both Plex and Jellyfin, I’m going with the software which is easier to set up. Most of us are at that point in our lives where we’ll pay for convenience.
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Polderviking@feddit.nl 5 weeks agoSetting jellyfin up is for the technically inclined, i’ll agree there, but once deployed I don’t really see where Plex fundamentally excels over Jellyfin? You open the app, app shows library, you click on desired media item, desired media item plays. What am i missing?
JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Polderviking@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
[deleted]LeFantome@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
It never occurred to me that when people talk about “wife factor”, they mean setup. I also thought they just meant uses
My wife uses Jellyfin and complains about it less than Netflix or Prime.
My wife is an iPhone and Mac user and asks me to set all her Apple stuff up. I get asked to fix things all the time.
Apparently neither Apple or Jellyfin have sufficient “wife factor” if we include setup.
Lyricism6055@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Some movies just refused to play for me. Subtitles for certain releases just straight up wouldn’t load on my lg TV, and then instead of nice picture subtitles I got shitty looking ones.
Idk… I ran it in docker and just assumed it’d all work but it doesn’t.
Also, I really like that plex stores you’re watched state on their server. I lost a jellyfin db once and had to remember what shows I was watching. There’s not a good sync to cloud or something feature for that… Yet another container and solution I have to stand up aside from my media
captainjaneway@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The app isn’t available on as many platforms. The original comment claimed the TV their MIL uses doesn’t have a Jellyfin app and would require side loading. I would argue that’s a pretty big barrier for most people.
Polderviking@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
So far I’ve had no problems using jellyfin on basicly anything that exists in my house which includes a Apple TV, Xbox SX and a Xiaomi TV Box S.
But I can see there’s probably no Tizen app for things like Samsung TV’s.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
github.com/Georift/install-jellyfin-tizen
Samsung is being a bit of a dick apparently.
Polderviking@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
As surprise to absolutely no-one. Me buying a Samsung panel with tizen on it one of my bigger regrettable purchases in my home theater life.