Comment on Useful apps to self-host

• Owljfien@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Plex gotten around to av1 transcoding yet?

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• erre@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think it depends on your clients. If you’re using Roku, you can skip Jellyfin…sadly.

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  • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have absolutely zero issues using jellyfin on roku. And actually the free live TV integration makes it better than Plex.

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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well not better, just cheaper.

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      • Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Never used Plex, but if being open source is a feature Jellyfin is better than Plex.

        Not requiring an external authentication server is the biggest drawback of Plex. I don’t want Plex to have my watch history and info about my media library.

        With Findroid supporting the intro skip plugin I’m fine since I don’t need many platforms.

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      • Sarmyth@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I have them both running. The only thing Plex does better for me is remote access. Everything else like UI features, collections, series identication, and CPU usage has been simpler and better looking on Jellyfin.

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    • erre@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Still gotta pay for guide data iirc. Has that changed?

      An update for the Roku app was released 5 days ago which massively improves it (finally an OSD!). It’s getting there.

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      • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I use zap2xml or whatever it is. Simple script and crontab job and it’s worked without issue for near two years now I guess (since I initially configured it.) All free. I’m in the States so not sure if it’s location dependent or not.

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  • douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And Android TV, it’s gotten better, but generally still sucks.

    I use Jellyfin because it’s FOSS, private, and it’s also written in a tech stack I’m very familiar with.not because it’s better than flex, because it really isn’t.

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• PlantObserver@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve used both extensively and stand by my statement, from a functional standpoint as well.

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  • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s a bold opinion given its barebones UI, widespread playback issues, and lack of basic functionality like a proper intro skip. Like even Emby is miles ahead of Jellyfin. Which isn’t surprising given JF is free but let’s be real lol

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    • PlantObserver@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Clearly just upset you got conned into paying hundreds for an inferior product

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      • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No I would love to switch to Jellyfin. I ditched Plex after some of their more recent shenanigans but Jellyfin is just so vastly inferior on almost every front that it’s difficult to even compare the two. For now I’m using Emby which is another fork of the same project Jellyfin is and it’s a lot closer to feature parity with Plex. And I’ll gladly pay money for a quality product over settling for a free product that doesn’t really get the job done.

        I just hope that one day Jellyfin reaches a maturity that it’s actually worth switching to.

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