Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced

Redtrax@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• victorz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have both but Jellyfin is not good with duplicates. Having several versions of movies in different languages just puts multiple copies of the movies in Jellyfin, with no distinction between them until you click into the details. Plex does this well with “Play version”.

  But Plex is worse for other reasons, on my LG TV. It’s painfully slow and doesn’t play the correct audio track that I select.

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  • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    An mkv with multiple audio tracks would save you some storage space.

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    • bhamlin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, however sometimes it’s easier to manage language and subtitles in a single file if space is not an issue and you often are wanting a different version. Might also have pre-burned subtitles, for which you’ll need a separate video stream anyway.

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      • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This too, yes. 🎯

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    • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not if I want/need to seed both versions. Then it’s a third version I need to keep on disk for a few weeks, instead of just two. Believe me, I’ve had this idea too, and have remuxed several movies to save space. 👍

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      • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Looking back at this thread. Jellyfin does let you select both versions and combine them into one. Then you can keep adding to your heart’s content.

        I don’t use that feature often, but have a couple movies that use it.

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      • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Fair enough, I’m mostly ripping my own discs so being a good torrent citizen isn’t top of mind.

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Plex does this well with “Play version”.

    It does it even better with “editions”.

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    • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah that’s good too, but ultimately for a different purpose. Still great. Jellyfin have that?

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      • remon@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The problem I have with “play version” is that you can’t really control which version is the default. Also it’s kind of hidden in the menu. And when you do select the version it just shows you the resolution (which is useless if you have two versions with the same resolution but different languages).

        Unless some is already familiar with plex, they probably won’t find your different language version. But a custom “different language” edition of the movie will show up right below the extras.

        Jellyfin have that?

        No idea.

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t really tried it but they have support for dupes.
    You just need to name them correctly (too lazy to link the docs. Just look up versions in media library)

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    • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s what I mean. You have to rename them. Plex handles this automatically, with the same shared library. I wish Jellyfin was better at this.

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      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Welll…They state in their docs how it should be.
        If you deviate from it, that’s on you.

        And yes it’d be nice if they did it automagically but we can’t have everything and I don’t expect it from them honestly as that is really a very niche requirement considering it already works.

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• Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Same brother

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