goodbye plex

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• wheezy@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Plex still good for the boys that bought the lifetime pass. I understand why people would change. But it’s still the best plug and play option. Waiting until they break the “lifetime” thing and fuck us over.

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• JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I am still using Kodi. It is feeling a bit long in the tooth in current year, but I can’t complain. I tried Plex because chromecasting is a feature I would love. Sadly it didn’t support the ISOs of my 1:1 rips. Maybe it does now (I stopped waiting for them years ago). As for Jellyfin, they seem to have an anti-ISO stance. One of the devs seemingly (or someone claiming to be a contributor) said I should convert all my media to a more modern format and make my own menus because it would be fun. Oh well, Kodi it is.

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    i’ve never heard of anyone that keeps dvd menus around. like, i get it for archival purposes but i would never want to actually navigate a menu when i want to watch something. in my mind it’s like sitting through the commercials on a rented vhs. i would probably store a converted copy as well, in a format that would let me specify from the application what track and subtitle i want so i can set a default.

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    • JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Blu-ray menus do kind of suck, but they are still mostly good enough to make all the supplemental material accessible (assuming the studio bothered to provide any anymore). But DVD menus (at least during that earlier golden age) add a layer to the experience I never knew I had been missing.

      The Rocky Horror Picture Show has some dancing fishnet legs and sexyhorror lips dancing around. You get to see so many extras and choose two versions of the movie and AND a secret Easter egg third version. A smorgasbord. Same for Terminator 2: two good versions of the movie and that lame Star Trek-ish ending one was hidden and I love having the option to not watch it. Plus many more. Fight Club is the only one I can think of to make use of that camera angle swapping button. The DVD versions of Dragon’s Lair and Space Ace wouldn’t work any other way.

      Perfect way to kill time when others go for a last minute toilet visit or decide to make popcorn. I am not going to the trouble of transcoding my entire library to get less.

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• Fingolfinz@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Welcome to the jelly. ONE OF US. ONE OF US.

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  • jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    ONE OF US. ONE OF US.

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• daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve been using jellyfin for years.

  My best recommendation is DELAY UPDATES and back up before you update.

  I have a history of updates breaking everything so you should be careful about them.

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    laughs in immich

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    • MvPts@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Updating immich brings excitement into my life :)

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  • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have Jellyfin running for years too and it has never broken for me, I use Linuxserver image, so maybe they delay the updates a bit?.. Now, Immich has broken so many times that nowadays is the only docker I don’t keep at latest (and I know using latest is a bad practice, I understand the reasons, but the convenience of not worrying about the versions beats all that for me)

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  • Lem453@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve been using jelly since just after the emby fork and never had an update issue on docker.

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Jellyfin still so buggy though. The UI is garbage too. I want to love it… I run both lol.

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  • SupremeDonut@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Like the version or the media?

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    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have it on docker with two volumes, ./config and ./cache

      I back up those before each update.

      A bad Jellyfin update should not mess with your media folder in anyway. Though you should have backups of those aswell as a rule of thumb.

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    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      the config and databases or the media, you mean?

      if so, the former, but I mount the meadia with a read only docker volume just to be sure, because chances are I would never notice it

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• cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  i love jellyfin i just wish there was a nicer way to highlight collections so you could make themed weekly or monthly collections of movies and shows that also still show up in the regular folders.... almost like netflix.

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  • cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That is coming, I saw a PR for that. Just need to be patient.

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  • Drathro@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m probably mistaken, but I think there might actually be a plugin for this? I haven’t looked into it myself but I swear I scrolled past a plugin listing similar functionality at some point. Or I could be hallucinating. Or it could even exist but no longer work on the current version of the app. Who knows!?

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• Surp@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I just wanna get rid of Plex so bad but jellyfin isn’t going to work for my grandma…

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  • Joelk111@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Host both. Keep plex up for your gma, Jellyfin for everyone else. Tbh Jellyfin is also pretty intuitive.

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  • wheezy@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve heard people had luck with Tailscale playing nicely with non Plex options. I can’t say I’ve tried it. Though I do use Tailscale. Essentially if you setup Tailscale for Grandma it’ll be like she’s sitting on your local network. Even better, set it up on her router and you can literally debug all her Internet problems if you can ping it.

    Beyond that a raspberry pi with a battery backup on a 4G subscription connected to the router. That would be the ultimate “grandma” setup. But I digress.

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  • Bazoogle@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why? It’s been much easier for me

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    • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Grandma? Pls send money.

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  • FoD@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I understand. I have converted fully to JF which required people to get onn players, and tunnel into my network and it was a lot of work on my end too.

    Do what works for you and them.

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• non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m also 90% done migrating to jellyfin. I’ve had the instance running for 6 months now, the cultural change to watch jellyfin is complete, except for my wife’s iPad.

  Heck, I should just retire Plex. That will force the change.

  These are the thoughts of a cold and calloused sysadmin. Didn’t get the email about the change? Too bad.

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  • meh@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    yeah it took me about 6 months with jellyfin to feel like i was ready to finally kill plex. the thing that finally did it was getting an email from plex asking if i'd like to check out whats streaming on hbomax.

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  • virku@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What are you using to watch jellyfin on iOS?

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    • DownByLaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In order of personal preference:

      1. Jellyfin Mobile
      2. Infuse
      3. Streamyfin
      4. Swiftfin

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    • Samsy@lemmy.ml ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Maybe, Streamyfin? its the only iOS App with Downloads and Offline-Mode

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    • SpikesOtherDog@ani.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Can also use the web client

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    • meh@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin

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• macstainless@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve heard jellyfin has a lot of security issues, which I don’t know if that’s accurate or not. But the BIGGEST issue is lack of a proper tvOS app. I really don’t feel like using Infuse or some other app just to use my library. Year after year I hear about people switching and yet, the gap is simply still there.

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve heard jellyfin has a lot of security issues

    The biggest known stuff I saw on their GitHub is that a number of the exposed service URLs under the hood don’t require auth. So, it’s open-source with known requirements, you can tell easily from the outside that it’s running, and you can cause it to activate a LOT of packages without logging in. That’s a zero-day in any package that can be passed a payload away from disaster.

    AS far as TVOS, I’m kinda surprised swiftfin doesn’t service you.

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    • pupbiru@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      swiftfin is mostly there but doesn’t support media segments, which is a deal breaker for me

      really unfortunate since jellyfin media segments is a much better implementation of the concept than plex

      i’m watching the swiftfin issue for when it gets added and i’ll be all over compiling and testing it

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    • Lem453@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Assuming this is all true, sure its not great but how much does it matter?

      Most have jellyfin in a docker. My jellyfin can’t only has read only accses to the media folder. Only the config folder has write access. Assuming the worst case scenario here, how much damage can than do?

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  • cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    To be fair there is a tvOS app in development but progress is slow because the whole project is maintained by a small handful of volunteers. They’ve put out a call for help and the maintainers post updates here

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  • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I am also not up to date on Jellyfin security issues but the biggest one I care about is that its clients don’t support OIDC. There’s a neat plugin for OIDC, but without client support it only works with the web client and I’m not a fan of leaving login pages open to the internet.

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    • meh@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      if you use the oidc connection and apps that support quick connect you can do it. you basically end up doing things like the plex link process that got implemented when they forced everyone into their authentication service. i almost went that route but opted to leave the password auth from ldap in. its the kind of log in process most people are used too and i've got a few elderly users. i disabled password reset in authentik though and everyone gets a 3 word 24 char minimum password.

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    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Use an LDAP to OIDC bridge?

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  • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Op already said they were behind authentik

    There also absolutely are apps for tv oses like Android, I use one daily.

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    • russjr08@bitforged.space ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think they meant Apple’s “tvOS” - which powers the Apple TV set top box.

      There’s no client for it, if I had to take a guess it’s likely due to the costs of doing so.

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  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, Samsung TVs don’t have a native Jellyfin app either. You can sideload it, but good luck walking your “you touched my computer six months ago and now it’s broken. This is your fault” grandmother through that over the phone.

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  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I just validated that the latest version of the LDAP privilege escalation issue is not an issue anymore. The curl script is in the ticket.

    I chose this one because after going through all of them, it was the only one that allowed access to something that wasn’t just data in Jellyfin.

    So for me, security is less of an issue knowing that, as only family use the service, and the remaining issues require a logged in user (hit admin endpoint with user token).

    Plus, I tried a few of those and they were also fixed, just not documented yet. I didn’t add to those tickets because I was not as formal with my testing.

    @EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world

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  • meh@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin is available for tvOS. works great for me with one bug. since i have homepods connected to one of my apple tv's as it's speakers. i had to change the setting to use the native video player instead of vlc to avoid and audio delay bug. that cost me the auto play next episode function. i though not auto playing the next episode would annoy me, but it's turned out to not be a issue at all. but infuse doesn't include that bug if you want both homepod tv speakers and auto play next episode with jellyfin. as for security, since jellyfin is more modifiable it has a lot more room for misconfiguration for sure. plex had plenty of it's own security issues, we just only heard about them when some security blogger discovered it.

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    • pupbiru@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      misconfiguration here i think is a dangerous way to phrase it… it implies that there is a secure way to run jellyfin on its own. jellyfin, by itself, should never be exposed to the www. it is, no matter the configuration, insecure. to run jellyfin on the www you must put a VPN or other reverse proxy with auth over the top of it

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• mlg@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Does jellyfin do untranscoded video/audio?

  Haven’t used it in years but finally building up my media server again and I remember it had some funky settings for hardware encoding back then which I didn’t need because I was connecting to it via a repurposed gaming laptop that could easily handle 4k content and surround sound by itself.

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  • treyf711@eviltoast.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I use jellyfin for unencoded audio and video on my clients that support it like my newer television, but I also use transcoded audio video on things that can’t handle the higher codecs like the raspberry pi.

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• Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I want to leave too, but I really like PlexAmp for my music streaming. And no, Finamp doesn’t work nearly as well or look as nice.

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  • blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    PlexAmp is so good. Nothing else comes close.

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  • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What about subsonic or funkwhale? I think I also tried a third one I’m forgetting

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    • Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thanks for the suggestions. I’ll try them out. One thing that I hate is critical for me is integration with Android auto. It’s the last Google service I can’t seem to quit. Might have to give up and just roll with Bluetooth instead.

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• Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Unrelated but why a full VM for Linux stuff, lxc is much more efficient

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  • meh@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    honestly every explanation probably just ends at 'this is what i learned on and it works'. same way i religiously use nano and try to do everything in bash first. or how a couple coworkers can't stop explaining their vim workflow and defending python unprompted like it's a trauma response for them. my current homelab is also running a r9 with 64gb ram and 30tb storage. if i were paying for remote hosting, still using salvaged hardware or being paid, i'd invest time learning newer processes. but containers haven't caught my interested and this set up takes basically no effort on my part to maintain, so i can focus my limited free time elsewhere.

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    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      honestly every explanation probably just ends at ‘this is what i learned on and it works’.

      Yeah, lots of these answers basically boil down to “when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

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    • dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Same.
      The time it takes me to write a single function in Python is the same as writing a whole Bash-script using nano.
      Also I initially set up my homelab using Docker in a VM on Proxmox. Totally useless abstraction, but I never found the time and patience to migrate the VM to bare metal.

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  • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I can backup an entire VM snapshot very quickly and then restore it in a matter of minutes. Everything from the system files, database, Jellyfin version and configs, etc. All easily backed up and restored in an easy to manage bundle.

    A container is not as easy to manage in the same way.

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    • Oisteink@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How often do you do this?

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    • Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How not?

      If a lxc container is in a btrfs subvolume or in a zfs dataset (those are created easily like a directory, it’s not a partition), you can do a full 1:1 copy in less than one second via a snapshot, keeping all the system files, database, version and configs

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    • pupbiru@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      you can use commit, save/load, import/export for the same thing as VM snapshots

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  • Laser@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Stronger compartmentalization

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• bitwolf@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I just got Authentik / Traefik going for Navidrome, Jellyfin is next.

  Does it play well for the mobile applications? If you use them?

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  • meh@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    the ldap auth works great for the apps. apps dont play well with an oidc login process. i ended up using both, oidc for web and ldap fall back for applications. made it easier for my non tech inclined users. most of the current apps also support quick connect, like the plex link process. you auth on a web browser and enter a code into the app. so it's possible to use only oidc for log in and, i believe it should be possible use css to even hide the user name and password fields.

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• FoD@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Congrats. I’m super particular about covers and naming and the conversion of file names that Plex needed to jellyfin is intensive.

  I finally got got JF up and running but still working on adding edition names to each item that is special. I really wish there was an editions field so it wasn’t a manual title update. At least I can lock the field afterwards.

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  • Vinstaal0@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You could use Radarr and Sonarr to rename all your content if you want to. You can setup your own naming scheme and it will change it for you. As far as I know Radarr and Sonarr work with Jellyfin/Plex/Emby/Kodi etc

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• Samsy@lemmy.ml ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Long time Jellyfin user here, welcome on board. I think biggest hurdle I should newbies warn about is the lack of availability on TizenOS.

  Its possible but needs some extra steps.

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  • nighthawkx@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is one of my issue with Jellyfin. It’s a workaround to install the app onto Tizen. Updates are again manual. But zero issues since installation and runs smooth.

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• puppycat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  my only issue is how user friendly it isn’t compared to Plex.

  i genuinely want to leave Plex (especially the more and more they enshittify) but I just could not figure out how to set up jellyfin. i use Linux every day, and know I’m at least a tiny bit more tech smart than your average PC user, but I can’t imagine trying to explain to my family how to set jellyfin up.

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• The_Zen_Cow_Says_Mu@infosec.pub ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  i have a lifetime plex pass, but I’d consider moving to jellyfin when their closed-captioning support reaches parity with plex. i regularly spin up a jellyfin container to try it out, but i still run into issues. And jellyfin’s android apps are mediocre, especially for music compared to plexamp

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• partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Long ago I ran a Windows Media Center PC in the living room and used the hell out of it. When WMC finally went EOL, I look for alternatives and found Plex. I never got around to setting up a Plex box, and now I see it too is ready for the scrap heap. I think this is what getting old is. You plan on doing something and never get around to it. Time passes much faster up here in age.

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• Kronusdark@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How is the Jellyfin software situation looking? Last time I checked it was pretty meh compared to plex. if I recall correctly the best app was Infuse and it was a monthly sub. Are there better options these days? I mostly watch plex on my TV through Android or Apple TV.

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• muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Foss superiority gang

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• Vigge93@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How did you set up Jellyfin with Authentik? Are you using SSO or is it only through LDAP?

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• cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have been running in parallel both jelly and plex and jelly is good.

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• Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Did plex do something again

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• Danitos@reddthat.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is probably the wrong post to ask this question, so sorry in advance.

  I have a dual boot Linux + Windows. Jellyfin runs wonderfully on muy Linux partition with docker-compose. Anybody knows how can I clone it in my Windows partition, such that configs, metada and accounts remain the same? I’ve failed to do this, and only the media volume remaines identical on both OS.

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• navi@lemmy.tespia.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Anyone have experience hosting a server for non-technical parents? Plex is just so plug and play and they have clients for even the shittiest old smart TVs.

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• cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What is authentik and could I use it on podman with compose?

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• Im_old@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why all those VMs instead of containers?

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• jhdeval@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There are a few things about jellyfin that I don’t like compared to Plex. First I can’t skip the intro of a show drives me nuts. The second one is it has newly added but not newly released. Other then that it has been really good.

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• geoff@midwest.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How do you keep all your virtual machines up-to-date? Or are those containers?

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