I tried but the technical gap from Plex to Jellyfin was too intense for me to try and make work at this time of my life. Plex works well for my purposes and I paid for the phone apps when needed ($6 per device I think).
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Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 8 months agoWorth checking out Jellyfin as well
Szymon@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Yeah for sure, didn’t mean to imply folks shouldn’t use Plex just giving it a shout out as an alternative. I’ve used both and they are both pretty awesome. One of my friends set up a seed box with Jellyfin so I kinda cheated in leaving the tinkering to them but I don’t think it was too bad with the provider they went with.
BolexForSoup@kbin.social 8 months ago
Exact same thing happened to me, i just couldn’t get it to consistently work.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 8 months ago
I can’t for the life of me get HW encoding working with Jellyfin. Plex was just plug and play.
i7-11800H
three@lemm.ee 8 months ago
worth checking out until you get to the cry for developers that they posted yesterday. fuck switching my media serving to a dying platform
Jarmer@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
I MUCH prefer Jellyfin to Plex. Jellyfin seems to have active development whereas Plex is more interested in adding in a ton of “features” (aka garbage) that I never ever wanted and continues to leave YEARS old bugs out in the wild. I think it won’t be long until Plex enshittifies itself to death. They clearly have a financial situation that is not aligned with its users.
GreenMario@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Plex has a client on my TV and Xbox. How would I watch Jellyfin content on those?
I say this a guy that got his RasPi3 Plex server running just good and stable a year ago and doesn’t touch it except to cycle in new content.
mark3748@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
You could use Emby instead. Jellyfin is the FOSS version of Emby and Emby has apps for everything. I moved to Emby from Plex five years ago or so and it’s been great.
Camilo@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
In the worst case scenario, you can access it via browser and then bookmark it.
I do that on my tv for which almost no apps can be installed and found no issues so far. Even HDR media plays, which I found that it is (or was?) a paid feature on Plex
Szymon@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I agree, I’ll give the software another try once I have more free time to learn and troubleshoot
mammut@lemmy.world 8 months ago
EeeDawg101@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Infuse is only $10 per year and that includes on your Apple TV and iPhone. It really is quite slick and looks really good.
Jarmer@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Agreed. This is not expensive at all. 100% worth the value which is less than a dollar a month.
whynotzoidberg@lemmy.world 8 months ago
FWIW, my Plex Pass has worked to be much less than that since I purchased it.
Much (not all) of the negative I see about Plex is associated with cost of a Plex Pass. If subscribing monthly, it costs more. If you play the long game with the Lifetime Pass, it’s dirt cheap and pretty darn solid.
obinice@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Unfortunately, there’s no Jellyfin application on my TV, or I’d swap :-(