I’d love Jellyfin if not for their incredibly infuriating seek behaviour. Why do I have to press play to start the video again?
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Korne127@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Jellyfin is great :D
stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
In case this helps, for me when I use it on Android TV with said TV’s remote, the arrow buttons on the direction pad for anything require pressing play/OK button after. But if I use the fast forward buttons, it does seek and then just keeps playing.
binarytobis@lemmy.world 4 months ago
For me I just want a fast forward button. They have something they call fast forward, but it seeks instead.
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 4 months ago
Except the sync / group watch feature is pretty broken which makes me sad
ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 4 months ago
Agreed! I stayed with Plex for a long time because Jellyfin had a rough time with live TV (antenna) and I already had a PlexPass because of a sale a long time ago. Now Plex is only still running because I love Plexamp.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Dude, yeah. Plexamp had me keeping my server up far longer than I should have.
black_flag_astronaut@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
[deleted]bookmeat@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
Symphonium is awesome. Still looking for a nice desktop alternative to Plexamp, which I can’t stand for its interface on desktop.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No, it’s not.
priapus@piefed.social 4 months ago
No shot you linked to fucking sora
dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
For the love, as a Plex alternative, they don’t even have a native app on all major tv stores. It should be a P1 feature. I would throw money at them if they get Apple TV support. Right now, there are no functional apps running on the latest Apple TV OS.
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 4 months ago
For the love, as a Plex alternative, they don’t even have a native app on all major tv stores. It should be a P1 feature.
Are you really bitching this hard about a completely free and open source project?
It’s not technology or finances that kill most FOSS projects and burn out the devs. It’s this kind of shitty entitled unappreciative demanding attitude from users.
As others have pointed out, there are fully functional and good quality frontends available, such as Swiftfin.
dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
I maintain open source projects too, and I fully understand the burnout, the pressure from supporters and such.
What I was saying is they can do better from a project management perspective. Otherwise I love their work :3Swiftfin is buggy atm, like my other comment.
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I maintain open source projects too, and I fully understand the burnout, the pressure from supporters and such.
Then you should know better than most that your wording and approach matters.
priapus@piefed.social 4 months ago
Swiftfin?
dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
For me the audio is desynced and subtitles are completely broken. :(
priapus@piefed.social 4 months ago
Oh weird. I would guess a transcoding issue, maybe double check those settings to make sure you have the right config for your hardware.
Theres also Infuse, its a video player that supports jellyfin, but I think some features are behind a premium purchase.
DoPeopleLookHere@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I haven’t used apple tv in a few years, but like, swiftfin worked just fine for me??
mbirth@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
I believe Infuse has Jellyfin support on Apple TV. But they want like £100 for a lifetime license or £2 a month / £13 a year.
dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Yeaaaaaaaah, I mean it’s a good app, but I don’t know if it justifies a $100 license.
Foni@chachara.club 4 months ago
The way you switch between two servers you own is more than inconvenient; it’s what keeps Plex in my life.I wish things would change because everything else is better.
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Thats how I describe Jellyfin, it works fine, its just inconvenient to use.
naticus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s why I use Emby. Paid for lifetime within a day of switch from Plex (which I also have has lifetime for like a decade) because it has a ton of plugins that have been useful and has a cloud server switch function.
kratoz29@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Just to think of replacing the mount points in the docker container from Plex to Jellyfin (in order for it to read my Riven and Decypharr symlinks) scares me… Mostly because after I finish a docker project my mind seems to go blank lol.
At least they still kinda honour the Plex Pass lifetime users…
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
At least they still kinda honour the Plex Pass lifetime users…
for now.
kratoz29@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Yeah I know, but Jellyfin is gonna be around when they stop doing this… I can hold a little longer 😁
BassTurd@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Does jellyfin have an easy way for remote streaming? I have a couple dozen people on my Plex server, most not very tech savvy, so setting up tailscale and running remote that way isn’t an option. I have a Plex pass so I haven’t been screwed by Plex yet, so I’m not rushing to get out, but I could see myself running both.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yes-ish, it’s harder for you than the users. But you will have to secure a URL and they will have to remember that URL. Also there’s some security issues with some unsecured endpoints on Jellyfin. That said I have mine out there exposed to the net and am comfortable enough with it.
kratoz29@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
I already have to expose my Plex Media Server with a Tailscsle funnel (for IPv4 only) for IPv6 I use my Synology NAS reverse proxy which can be accessed globally.
I have been maining this setup for years now that I forgot if I can access my PMS outside without either those solutions lol (I am GGNATED but IPv6 works fine as stated).
The main thing here is that I don’t need my users to do anything, they just open the app and access it, no need to remember IPs/URLs or install VPNs to my server… Is that possible with Jellyfin as well?
Xanvial@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yes you can do the same thing for Jellyfin. I use Synology ddns and setup subdomain in reverse proxy to jellyfin port. For tailscale, I previously use this but needs to add the jellyfin port after the tailscale IP.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No, there’s not centralized host server to connect your users with your server. They need a fixed IP or URL to access your server from outside your network.
Gonzako@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I have mine behind a caddy reverse proxy that forces https. I think that handles most sniffing concerns
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
no, tailscale is still the easiest option.
BassTurd@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Bummer… unfortunately, that’s a deal breaker for me to completely drop Plex. Maybe someday.
db2@lemmy.world 4 months ago
jj4211@lemmy.world 4 months ago
So I don’t get it, I have mine up with a domain without tsilscale… The clients are quite happy wherever. I don’t even see that much “crawling” traffic that goes to the domain, most just hit the server by ip and get a static 401 page that the “default” site is hard coded to give out.
astro@leminal.space 4 months ago
At some point, somewhere on the internet, someone authoritatively claimed that tailscale is the one and only acceptable solution to getting your jellyfin server outside your LAN and it just kind of took root. nginx has worked perfectly fine for me.
priapus@piefed.social 4 months ago
You could just get a domain and set up a reverse proxy.
BassTurd@lemmy.world 4 months ago
All possible, but currently I have lifetime Plex pass and just need to share with people I want to share with. No extra config. Once Jellyfin can do that or something similar, I’ll look at jumping ship. Until then, the juice isn’t worth the squeeze.
priapus@piefed.social 4 months ago
Fair enough. I doubt Jellyfin will ever offer something like that. Its designed to be completely self hosted and not rely on a central server, which I dont see changing.
CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Once Jellyfin does that then it’ll be time to look at jumping ship to something else, because that’ll be the indication that Jellyfin is going down the same road as Plex.
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The first one, yes. That’s what I do. But IIRC hosting media via cloudflare tunnels goes against the TOC and they reserve the right to ban users over it
madnerds@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
They changed their TOC a while ago, the only thing they have in there now is boiler plate stuff about not hosting pirated content.
www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/terms/
You agree not to, and not to allow third parties to use the Services to … post, transmit, store or link to any files, materials, data, text, audio, video, images or other content that infringe on any person’s intellectual property rights or that are otherwise unlawful;I just set up a cache rule to ignore my jellyfin subdomain and they won’t ever care about me and my half dozen users.
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I set mine up with HAProxy for TLS offloading and ACME for the server cert. Restrict your access to just your country/region by GeoIP and you are pretty good to go.
oakey66@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I moved away from plex as well. I do have remote access but had to set up Tailscale on the accounts that access it. It’s a bit of a hassle initially but works well.