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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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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- Xanza@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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…
  
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- Laser@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?
  
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