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Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

The whole point of jellyfin/Plex is to provide a feature rich UI for your video files on your hard drive. This is walking back from that to the point that you may as well just use vlc and map network drives on windows. Heck, just carrying around a SSD full of videos is easier than this.

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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Yeah, I don’t see how this is better than mounting the drive and using whatever I normally use.

My primary use for Jellyfin is:

stream to TV - used to use minidlna, Jellyfin is a strict upgrade

web page - mostly for my SO, who already has samba configured and doesn’t use it

For YouTube, I just use NewPipe or Grayjay on mobile, and YouTube directly on web (uBlock blocks YT ads perfectly).

This looks cool, just not something I’d ever consider.
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