Isn’t it proprietary?
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james@lemmy.jamesj999.co.uk 3 months ago
Why does nobody ever mention Emby? To me, it’s everything Plex used to be before it got enshittified!
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
james@lemmy.jamesj999.co.uk 3 months ago
It is, but also incredibly quick, easy to use etc.
Everything Plex used to be in the good old days imo!
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
What makes you think it won’t be victim to enshitification?
octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
Emby
Jellyfin exists because Emby was only open source until it wasn’t convenient. Some of their own devs pointed out they were violating the license, and their response was… non-ideal.
So Jellyfin was forked with the last fully open-source Emby code.
At least that’s my recollection several years down the line.
I decided then that no amount of headache from Jellyfin (and let me say that I was an EARLY jellyfin adopter AND former Plex user) would be enough to get me to use Emby. (Because things like that are important to me, though I realize they aren’t important to everyone.)
And reading this thread I’m apparently a super-genius because I have my Jellyfin behind a reverse proxy and serve it to my elderly parents with a simple login and an app they were able to install, and never found it to be a headache. (Which, if I’d read this thread only, I’d conclude was just not possible without voodoo magic)
No headaches along the way, and whereas Plex had already begun the march to enshittification when I left, Jellyfin has done nothing but steadily get better.
Anyhow, longer answer than intended, but I’d go back to Plex before I’d go to Emby, just on principle.
Getting6409@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I think Emby failed to get a lot of momentum due to having hardware acceleration behind a paywall, and then having jellyfin out there offering it for free. When I was first getting away from plex, emby was my first stop, and then I moved over to jellyfin shortly after because of the hardware acceleration situation.
james@lemmy.jamesj999.co.uk 3 months ago
Yeah that’s definitely true. I gladly pay for Emby and thing it’s worth every penny for how I use it. Jellyfin has got to be the best free+open one for sure.
PurplebeanZ@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I pay for emby too. It’s only like £5 a month and it’s worth every penny to me.