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• abfarid@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Currently my biggest complain with Jellyfin and the reason I can’t switch to it completely is the bad subtitle support. There’s a bunch of clients and some subtitles work on one, but not the other and vise versa. It’s annoying to jump clients depending on what you watch. Sometimes subtitles just don’t want to load by default and you have turn them on for each episode. And even though I have Bazaar, sometimes I still need to download subtitles, and Plex has that built-in.

  Either way, I already have lifetime subscription, there’s no point in switching. At this point I’ll only switch is JF becomes better or Plex becomes worse.

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  • sonofearth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    JF becomes better or Plex becomes worse

    Both will happen.

    Besides.

    some subtitles work on one, but not the other and vise versa

    For me it has worked everywhere. All of my media is in .mkv so it already contains the subtitles. It works in all browsers clients, Desktop clients, TV and Mobile clients. Works in VLC and MPV as well on desktop, TV and Mobile. Works with Kodi as well. Works on same network (via both host IP and reverse proxy) as well as remotely via Pangolin.

    So you can try putting everything in one MKV Container or maybe change the subtitle formats (if that’s a thing).

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    • abfarid@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Both will happen. 🤞

      Of course I can put extra work into formatting my subtitles to make them work everywhere. Sometimes they are embedded, sometimes they are an .srt file next to the video file. And I don’t want to spend time normalizing all of them. It already just works all the time on Plex, so I’ll simply wait until JF fixes the support.

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      • Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I don’t think Jellyfins focus is currently to support irregular naming schemes. Naming media correctly with a proper scheme is the way to go.

        Just so you know I wouldn’t hold my breath.

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      • punkibas@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You can also try Wholphin, it’s a jellyfin client with subtitle search like Plex.

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  • ethicallysliced@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, I would love to use Jellyfin over Plex but the ability to reliably select subtitles on Apple TV is crucial. I can’t do this currently.

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• horse@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Working “watched” labels on the Apple TV client would be nice. Not having those is a deal breaker for me considering 99% of my use case is streaming media to my Apple TV over LAN.

  I have Jellyfin running along side Plex in case I want to do remote streaming, but I never use it and generally just copy the files for what I want to watch to my laptop if I’m going to be watching something away from home. Or I can just VPN in to my home network.

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