What is the point of Plex? I just went straight for Jellyfin and it does everything I need and then some. Is it just that people went with Plex initially and then stuck with it as it got enshittified?
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Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 10 months agoA lot of people that run Plex have a Jellyfin container on standby, or they’ll use Plex for friends and family and use JF at home.
dojan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Plex has better security, federates and shares with other plex servers and generally is less hands-on for transcoding.
But, I don’t use it. I like Jellyfin. It’s free and while it may lack a few features, it isn’t worse by any measure.
Xanza@lemm.ee 10 months ago
generally is less hands-on for transcoding.
Yeah, I’m not gonna give you that one. It’s a single option that you toggle. Wanna use your nvidia GPU? Enable NVENC. AMD gpu/cpu? AMF. Intel CPU? QSV.
Really not that hard…
Laser@feddit.org 10 months ago
Plex has better security, federates and shares with other plex servers and generally is less hands-on for transcoding.
Regarding security, it’d be interesting to see how secure it actually is. Yeah, the individual endpoints might be protected better, but is Plex the company maybe a single point of failure?
Xanza@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Because why run one server for all your needs when you can double up, right? /s
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 10 months ago
I didn’t say it was a good idea…