And they wonder why we walk with a pegleg…

(And that “watch similar movies” thing can go to hell too)

ETA:

Jellyfin is great, yes.

  • @bokherif
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    21 month ago

    Is jellyfin considerably better than plex for local and offline usage?

    • @[email protected]OP
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      41 month ago

      Personal preference, really. For me, jellyfin is much simpler to use, very easy to self-host in docker. And the clients are great too. I use desktop, android and roku regularly.

    • sunzu2
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      41 month ago

      Client apps are more limited but otherwise floss purist swear by it

      • @bokherif
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        21 month ago

        Any difference in remote access? I think you gotta pay plex for that.

        • sunzu2
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          11 month ago

          That’s also true.

          Remote access is above my pay grade though.

        • /home/pineapplelover
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          11 month ago

          I remote access jellyfin just fine. Got a reverse ddns proxy on my synology nas so you can probably do the same thing for free.

    • GHiLA
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      11 month ago

      Better is subjective.

      Simpler in a more streamlined sense, yes. Plex is more hands-off, and is doing a lot behind the scenes to automatically configure itself to your hardware for the best transcoding experience and such.

      Jellyfin needs a little more work but can get there, it just needs to be shown the hardware and be configured correctly, but I find Jellyfin to be simpler and less cluttered overall when properly finished, with less strings attached to a parent company.