Cause jellyfin has all the telltale signs of a half baked open source project, and plex doesn’t.
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acannan@programming.dev 11 months ago
Why does anyone use Plex when Jellyfin exists?
thoughtorgan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
piranhaphish@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I loath Plex. A year or two ago I tried to switch to JellyFin but there was no app for my then 2-year-old LG TV. Apparently that was too old, and that’s just a natural manifestation of a non-commercial app.
Maybe I would have better luck with a Roku but it’s hard to beat the integration of built-in apps.
SYLOH@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I use Jellyfin on Roku because my Samsung TV was too old for it. It sucks on Roku.
I have not figured out the pattern for why some UHD videos don’t play remotely while others do, only that debugging it is fiendishly difficult since it all works fine locally.
If you ever resume a video, the subtitles are out of sync. And I haven’t found a way to adjust them.
Some videos with certain encodings play only on the PC app, but not Roku or Android.
For that matter Android is basically there to just easily download a copy, I don’t even bother trying to play with it.
TK420@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s actually really easy to beat the integrated apps, you use a device actually meant to stream, not your TV. TVs lack pretty much everything to be a real streaming solution except for the video and audio output part … that they do well.
xaxl@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is much more hassle. Apart from having to actually set up and configure such a device, every time you want to use it you’ve got to switch it on, switch your TV input and use a different remote to control it. This is far inferior to just using the TV remote to open Plex and navigate with the same remote. That’s without considering that Plex is more polished and has an overall better UI as well.
pirat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I only use my TV with an AndroidTV box (never without it), and always just use the Bluetooth remote that controls the box. Linking the devices through HDMI-CEC makes the TV automatically power on/off when I power on/off the box. It even lets the TV remote control the AndroidTV box through HDMI, but since I’d rather use the box remote which I don’t have to point at the IR receiver, I only use the TV remote if I ever need to change audio/picture settings.
ki77erb@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I really tried to get Jellyfin to work but I had so many issues. After a lot research and tinkering I finally got it to work… for about 30 seconds. No matter what I played the video would freeze shortly after starting and the audio would continue. Didn’t matter if I was remote or on the same network. I gave up.
Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Why do you drive whatever you drive when you can just fly everywhere?
Astronautical@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I’ve been using Emby now and it’s just better, plus Jellyfin uses some of Emby’s databases (as per a few crashlogs I’ve seen)
xaxl@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Plex is easier to set up and has more features that are more polished than what Jellyfin has. It’s also a more well known name and been available a lot longer.
Jellyfin will one day be the superior option though once it’s more polished.
acannan@programming.dev 11 months ago
How can setup get any easier than
apt get install jellyfinand then going into a web UI to add a few folders?DestinyGrey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Plex is better at looking up show names, has an easier UI to set up more complicated stuff like hardware acceleration, has better clients across a variety of platforms… the only reason I’m using Jellyfin over Plex at this point is because I anticipate Plex shitting the bed. If you’re on Plex, there’s no reason to swap from it, and honestly if you’re comparing the two as a newbie, Plex is still a much easier option.
xaxl@lemmy.world 11 months ago
These are a lot of the core reasons why Plex is better. Setting up a media server is a lot more complicated than just installing the package in your favourite distro.
CeeBee@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In what areas is Plex more polished, and what features does Jellyfin lack?
thoughtorgan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Jellyfin balloons to 6gb ram usage after a week while plex stays at 400mb.
The interface of jellyfin is way less polished and the actual video player UI has a bunch of bad decisions that push more technical babble to the end user that confuses more than helps
I run jellyfin and plex side by side. Everybody has preferred plex over jellyfin on my server.
Literally the only upside for jellyfin is admin created accounts not requiring the end user to sign up themselves.
acannan@programming.dev 11 months ago
I’ve been using jellyfin everyday for a few months on my (very tiny) debian server and have never experienced a memory spike like that. Handles music, HD video, even network streams without a hitch
ironeagl@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Well, the article would seem to add one more giant upside for Jellyfin.
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It handles all the dynamic DNS stuff out of the box for remote access. Took me a while to figure that out for Jellyfin (as opposed to VPN tunnel)