Comment on Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family
Winter8593@lemmy.world 11 months agoI for one would love to use Jellyfin. Though I’ve found in my personal experience it’s not as stable as Plex nor has as many features yet. I currently have both running on my home system but primarily use Plex. One day I will fully switch.
Curious what issues you have? In my experience plex was very annoying to work with while Jellyfin has been working stable like a charm.
Hardest part has been sideloading it on a smart tv But other then that it worked out of the box.
I do however keep everything local and offline, what really pushed me away from plex was how it kept nagging about making an account and “verifying that i own this server” ever single time i wanted to watch sm.
I have two main issues:
The appletv app isn’t as smooth and fast as plex. It is hard to convince my wife to switch when the user experience is not as good.
No profile fast switch. Unlike any other streaming service (Plex included) jellyfin doesn’t offer a list of profiles on startup to select who’s watching. This is a huge issue for me, as my wife, son and I uses the same devices with our own profiles.
Are you using Swiftfin?
Yes. I’ve tried all the available clients.
I guess milage may vary on the road you take and your destination as i don’t use either of those.
I believe tv use is very low priority for them as its also tricky to get compatible and working, quite telling that the native ios app is from a third party with the official one being a browser wrapper.
I was considering making a separate account for my kid once they are old enough to operate the remote so thanks for the heads-up.
As a dedicated Jellyfin user, 100% agree. I love it, but glitches where it loses my seek progress and requires restarting the video, or the terrible subtitle support on Roku, or the often lackluster library management (they improve it slowly though!), these all make it much harder to recommend.
One feature I enjoy is hardware acceleration without paying for it
Plex charges for THAT?
I think it’s paid if you want to use hardware acceleration for transcoding (“Hardware-Accelerated Streaming”).
Tip!: Hardware-accelerated streaming is a premium feature and requires an active Plex Pass subscription.
…plex.tv/…/115002178853-using-hardware-accelerate…
Sounds pretty ass to me. It’s your hardware lmao
Gabagoolzoo@kbin.social 11 months ago
I put off using Jellyfin for years because of comments like this. Finally made the switch three years ago and lo and behold... it's just a better Plex. More customizable, less intrusive and the syncplay actually works. There are a few issues client-side depending on your platform, but other than that I don't get the criticism.
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Does it have an official app on all smart tvs and plug devices (Roku/firestick) like plex? That would be the hurdle for me, all of my family is happy with plex because every device including the $400 trash Black Friday TVs have a plex app already on them, they just need to sign in.
IronKrill@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
It does have a Roku app, but it’s very limited in features and barely developed. I tried playing some anime encoded with x265 and it was unwatchable for me because:
A. The TV could not handle the decode and there is no (sensible) way to force x264 transcoding on just the TV, and:
B. Selecting subtitles and audio tracks is painful and sometimes impossible. I tried changing my Jellyfin settings, my Roku settings, using the selectors on the episodes, even setting the default tracks in the video files. Nothing worked to have dual audio or dual subtitle files play the correct tracks.
I can’t speak for any other ecosystems, only Roku.
Winter8593@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I have a Samsung TV and there is no official app for it. You have to side load it from a community repo. This was another factor for why I don’t use Jellyfin as much, especially since my partner primarily uses the TV and is not as tech savvy.
ComradeMiao@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, it is the best