In my experience, all it takes is one instance where a stream buffers or needs to transcode down to a lower quality. There are a lot of variables between your home server and someone else’s smart tv or set top box. Streaming services are really good at accounting for most of that and making it work reliably. I am sure most of our media servers are way less reliable, especially outside the home.
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eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws 18 hours ago
People with access to my Jellyfin: Last login: 10 months ago
mrnngglry@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
HereIAm@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I have a friend group that loves dumb American shows playing as background noise, think My Big Fat Gypsies Wedding and Swamp People. It’s hard to easily find all the seasons for them, so my jellyfin instance is a perfect place for them to live 😄
emrsmsrli@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
For some reason my friends love to pay for 628 different streaming services.