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For a good while, Plex was the only game in town that did the job well, and they put the transcoding feature behind the paywall.

Given it wasn’t that expensive for a lifetime pass a number of years ago (I remember it was cheaper than a game anyway) and they still seemed relatively user-centric at the time, many people like me felt like they were supporting developers building something that was useful to us.

I still run my Plex server since it’s not really costing me not to, but I’ve been running Jellyfin too for a little while and it more or less can do the same job these days

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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Yup, for the time it was worth it. I got about 7 years out of my “lifetime” plex pass, and I got it on sale. All in all, I won’t say the money was wasted.

It’s 100% a waste if anyone pays for that BS monthly streaming fee though.

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- FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Wait so you’ve got a lifetime plex pass already? Then literally nothing changes for you or anyone that is streaming from your server.
  
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  - TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Yeah, they’re just bitching. Pretty funny imo
    
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Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I put my chips (£100) on Emby, a Jellyfin fork. I don’t know much about specifics, but I believe Emby was borne out of classic workplace toxicity, in that Jellyfin was becoming too corporate so a couple devs forked off to keep it clean.

I haven’t regretted my purchase. I can’t sell anyone on much either, because Emby does all the same as other services, except they’ve kept adding features while Plex kept doing the Google thing and taking them away. CPU transcoding is free I believe, as is remote streaming up to 10 devices for each user… Idk I paid pretty early on, but lifetime license is where it’s at. Subscriptions just open your asshole for greedy CEOs to fuck you

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- AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  Emby was borne out of classic workplace toxicity, in that Jellyfin was becoming too corporate so a couple devs forked off to keep it clean.
  
  I think you have that backwards. Jellyfin is a fork of emby
  
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  - Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Yeah; Emby was originally called MediaBrowser and was a free open source project. ‘MediaBrowsers’ developers decided to move to a closed source paid model to establish some more consistent income and support the dedicated developers they have. Thus Emby was born.
    
    Some users were really unhappy with this decision and forked MediaBrowsers last release to create Jellyfin. Their development has been quite a bit slower, but they’ve made some significant strides in recent years. It’s a more and more attractive option.
    
    One of my biggest reasons for sticking with Emby (besides already having a lifetime premier license) is the dedicated clients available on more platforms. Xbone is my primary streaming device, besides android: Emby has a dedicated xbox client you can install, where as Jellyfin you’ve gotta use the web browser.
    
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  - Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Indeed I did, I removed my speculative comments…
    
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ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I’m pretty happy with Emby, which also lets me easily do remote streaming.

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