Comment on Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users

stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Can’t figure out why you would use Plex over jellyfin

  Probably the biggest reason is that it makes it so easy to securely share across the internet. With JF you’re on your own and you can really fuck things up. If you’re just running it on your LAN the JF is the obvious choice.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Set up Jellyfin with Yunohost, it comes with all the fun security stuff built in.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    There are plenty of VPN solutions.

    Get something like Netbird and share the port.

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    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That’s what you have to do for sharing!?

      Someone definitely told me that there was library sharing for jellyfin… Is this the only option?

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• Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  agree in principal, but in practice:

  1. parents who live across the state

  2. plexamp for music

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    1. You absolutely need to be careful sharing your own media with people outside your household as that’s probably illegal. If you still need to you can setup a VPN.

    2. The Jellyfin music player has recently seen a lot of love

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    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      1. This hasn’t been a notable issue in a while. That’s why Plex’s https-by-default was such a big deal. With https, even your ISP can’t see what you’re streaming. They can see that something is being streamed, but not what specifically.

      Also, you totally glossed over the fact that Plex is simply easier for non-savvy people to set up. Plex provides a unified login experience similar to major streaming services, which Jellyfin simply can’t provide; If your mother-in-law can figure out how to log into Netflix on her TV, she can figure out how to log into Plex too.

      And the unfortunate truth is that Plex’s remote access is much easier for 90% of users to figure out. It doesn’t require VPNs or reverse proxies at all. You just forward a port and anyone with access can easily see your server. But my MIL’s TV doesn’t even have access to a Jellyfin app without sideloading. Not to mention the fact that I’d need to walk her through actually setting the app up once it is installed, because there is no unified system for logging in. And if I’m not using a reverse proxy for my Jellyfin server, then I also need to walk her through setting up Tailscale, assuming her TV is even capable of using it at all.

      Any single one of those hurdles would make Jellyfin a non-starter if I want to walk my MIL through the setup over the phone, and they’re all currently present. And some of them will never be fixed, by design. For instance, the lack of a unified login page is by design, because a unified login would require a centralized server for the app to phone home too. That centralization is exactly what Jellyfin was made to rebel against, so it’s a problem that will never be “solved”; It is seen by the devs and FOSS enthusiasts as a feature, not an issue.

      From a FOSS perspective, Jellyfin is a modern marvel. But it’s definitely not at the same level as Plex when you compare ease of setup or remote access.

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      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        You definitely do not want to expose Plex or Jellyfin to the internet.

        That’s a great way to get PWD as Plex has had its fair share of vulnerabilities

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    • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      2. So it has sonic analysis and sonic adventures? It has “stations”?

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    • Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I would be genuinely surprised if fair use draws the line on format-shifted, legally purchased media, at “remote watch-together”, leaving format-shifting and local watch-together in-tact.

      If it were up to the studio’s interpretation of the law, you’d need to purchase a license for each person during local watch-together.

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Remote access is definitely a pain, and just surfacing the ports is a bad idea.

    Finamp is close. No visualization, No normalization, and there’s gapless playback but no crossfading.

    I use tailscale to watch videos and play music remotely.

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    • Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Crossfading and normalization would both independently be dealbreakers for me. I can’t go back

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      • kata1yst@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Just do Navidrome. It’s better anyway in a multitude of ways.

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      • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Unfortunately for a crossfading they need to wait for jellyfin to provide it on their side.

        I wouldn’t be surprised to find a normalization plugin though.

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• JustARaccoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Here’s some thoughts I posted on a different post lemmy.world/comment/15822959 I was running jellyfin off the same server and hardware as Plex, yet it’s less efficient and performant.

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  • superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Agreed it all really just depends on what functionality is important to you. If it was just me and my wife using it I’d absolutely be using Jellyfin. But between grandparents and small children using mine, I got so many complaints I had to turn Plex back on after a week.

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• Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Jellyfin for me sucks. Not the server, the client. It works great on my wife’s machine but whenever I wanna watch something I get constant issues with crashing and seeking not working.

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  • ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Sounds like a transcoding issue which AFAIK can depend on the machine you try to play this with. Doesn’t really solve your problem other than next time get something that’d better at playing more video formats, which is a hilarious and silly problem to have these days.

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    • Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Its a windows desktop lmao.

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      • ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Lmao indeed.

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  • surph_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This is why I’ve stuck with Emby.

    I get why people switched, and I’m open to it eventually, but Emby is much more polished. That’s not to say the Emby clients don’t also crash from time to time.

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  • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I recently had a weird bug with Jellyfin, are you by chance using a domain name? Try accessing Jellyfin using direct IP, e.g. 192.168.1.123:8096

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    • Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Can’t remember but ill switch to direct IP and see if that helps. Thanks :)

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  • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If you’re trying to watch 4k content in a browser, AFAIK, Edge is the only one capable.

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    • Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Nah, the dedicated client.

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• Manmoth@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Jellyfin always irrecoverably crashes for me over time. It also suffers from permissions issues where videos won’t play sometimes due to a a transcode folder being full or something like that.

  I want to use it but it always breaks.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’ve used it for about 2 years and it has been mostly stable. The only major issue I had was about a year and a half ago where it got stuck in a infinite crash due to a corrupt database. It was a known bug that was fixed.

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  • Atropos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    What’s your setup and hardware look like? I’m just curious.

    My jellyfin service has been up for about six months, and has played probably 100+ shows and movies, for myself internally and a few external clients over that time. My hardware is a HP elite desk mini and a 10TB USB HDD

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    • Manmoth@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I have some ancient desktop that accesses media on my NAS. I run Plex on the same PC no problem. Stopped running Jellyfin because of the above-mentioned issues.

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• keyez@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I have been trying to use jellyfin locally but subtitles have issues some times depending on the show or format. Also recently my wife watched 2 episodes more than me so we needed to go back 2 episodes and only way to do that from the Up Next or Resume screens was to start a new search of the show and click into the season and then find the episode. I get supporting open source but for my jellyfin only has 70% of the features I use weekly on Plex. Definitely supporting it and trying to use it but it’s not feature parity for me

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• ipp0@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m running Plex with the Xbox One Digital TV Tuner for live TV channels. Would that work with Jellyfin now? When I set this system up, Plex was the only thing that I got to work.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I use the HDhomerun

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    • ipp0@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I have no experience of actual HdHomerun devices, but I tried emulating HDHomerun with tvheadend and antennas when I was setting up. I didn’t get that to work with Plex, so I’m not sure that would work with jellyfin either. It wouldn’t make sense to buy new equipment since Plex works fine with what I already own (and I generally avoid buying USA products)

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      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        That’s fair

        However I have to say the HDhomerun has been fantastic. It is a simple device that provides a local web API that allows devices on the network to request a channel stream. My device died after a few years and they replaced it for free.

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• Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  There’s a simple answer to that. When many people first got started with Plex, it was awesome! Way better than xbmc! Also, jellyfin didn’t exist.

  Once you’ve had things up and running smoothly for years, changing everything is a hard sell. You could spend hours setting it up, fixing little inconsistencies, manually matching titles that had weird names, etc. it you could just… Not.

  I hope I’ve cleared things up for you! The answer is laziness!

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  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    IDK, the hardest (Most tedious) part for me was renaming everything and categorizing things properly, but that passed over seamlessly, although I do remember being paranoid that I would have to do It again and the only reason I switched is because Windows broke something on my old server and I had to use Linux so I was kinda forced into it.

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• Netrunner@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This.

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• EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Jellyfin is ugly, buggy, and the options to secure it aren’t really up to snuff.

  If Jellyfin implemented proper SSO support (without needing the plugin) and the clients worked with it as well, I’d be much more willing to use Jellyfin.

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