Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing

deathbird@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• domi@lemmy.secnd.me ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It has been a few years since I last used Plex but I always liked their interface, their tech stack is fairly modern, they have apps for pretty much every device, their title matching for content works really well and there was not much wrong with it back in the day other than it lacking local authentication.

  I switched over long ago when they started pushing streaming services to my users that I couldn’t deactivate server side.

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  • Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What did you switch to?

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    • domi@lemmy.secnd.me ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I ran Emby for a while before switching to Jellyfin. Still running it today.

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      • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I have both Plex and Jellyfin.

        Plex takes like 1+ minute to start on my TV. Another maybe 15–20 seconds to load the first screen of content. It’s insane. Jellyfin with the exact same library takes a few seconds to load its start page.

        I don’t know what Plex is smoking. 🤷‍♂️

        One day I’ll be Jelly only. ✨

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• DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The wife / parent appeal of simplicity.

  Otherwise just use JellyFin.

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• Zetta@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Local media streaming Is the appeal?

  Now if you’re asking why use Plex vs Jellyfin, for me jellyfin has more issues with high bitrate 4K HDR content and subtitles for my situation.

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