Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network

• otter@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Have you tried the third party ones? I’ve seen recommendations for Swiftfin

  github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin

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  • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Year that’s the one I’m using on our appleTV, it’s buggy as hell. “Continue” show often doesn’t work and picks an episode that I’ve watched long ago and not the next in line, often never updating it despite watching several episode over several weeks. Switching language on shows pretty much doesn’t work at all, it will either never change from default audio language, or use an entirely different language than the one picked from the list.

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    • reoccupy4753@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mostly use Infuse on the Apple TV and Streamyfin on the iPhone.

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      • princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’d be happy to pay for Infuse if the lifetime wasn’t AU$150, and I just outright reject paying a subscription for an app for using something FOSS, even if it’s only AU$20/year. A lifetime license that’s 3-5yrs of a yearly sub is much more reasonable.

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    • kieron115@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Plex will do the exact same thing if you have an episode earlier in your history that didnt get marked as “watched”. But plex lets you manually tag episodes as watched which usually fixes it. Maybe there’s a similar option in jellyfin?

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      • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Jeælyfin also has this, is just doesn’t work on appleTV

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    • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I use Emby and it’s flawless, might be worth swimming upstream?

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      • Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Same, though I can’t get remote access working while running a vpn on my machine and it’s driving me nuts

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    • OccasionallyFeralya@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Infuse is so good on Apple TV it’s worth the money

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      • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I refuse to support companies with subscription based business models.

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    • Willem@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin/discussions/1294

      The Apple TV version hasn’t been updated in a long time. They are working on getting it to the testing fase in TestFlight but it’s basically a complete rewrite of the app

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• remon@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is there something better than jellyfin?

  Plex.

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  • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What if you want to own your server?

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    • kieron115@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can absolutely run plex in a local only mode. You don’t sign it in to an account and then set your subnet/subnets in the local networks section like so.

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    • remon@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I do own my server. It’s in my living room.

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      • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Then you signed it over to Plex. Smdh

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• ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I can't say I've given Jellyfin a proper try (as in using it and the clients exclusively for a long period) but we have been using Emby for quite a while before I knew it existed.

  If I'm not mistaken Jellyfin is actually a fork of Emby so they're pretty similar, but one is a bit older.

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  • SatyrSack@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If I’m not mistaken Jellyfin is actually a fork of Emby so they’re pretty similar, but one is a bit older.

    Jellyfin forked from Emby in 2018 when Emby chose to switch to a closed-source model. Because of this, there are many similarities, but the projects continue to become very different from one another as well over the years.

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    • ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was probably using Emby already by then, had bought a lifetime license since it didn't require bouncing things off and outside server like Plex did (or was it that Plex was a renewing subscription, I forget) , so it just stayed out of inertia.

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• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What’s an “apple apple” device? 😁

  Yea, Jellyfin on iOS hsed to be buggy. Seems much better these days, and there’s also Finamp for music

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• ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m pretty happy with Emby, but it’s not open source.

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• Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The web interface is fantastic. I just use a spare laptop with a wireless keyboard and mouse

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• yamper@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  infuse is a good jellyfin client. there’s a free tier but im not sure of the limitations.

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  • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The free tier limitation is that it doesn’t work with jellyfin

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