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ArchJellyfin btw.Every single Plex thread has the same annoying smug commentary from Jellyfin users.
Interesting shift. It’s usually the plex users who are smug.
Heavily disagree. Plex users are more absent minded and don’t really care as long as it works, that’s why they’re still on Plex lol
Glad I moved to Jellyfin for unrelated reasons. (Plex don’t give a shit about their users, was my main gripe. Well, byyye 👋)
Plex enshittified too much to be useable, I ended switching to jellyfin too last year
Welcome to the family, pal
Surely a me thing, but twice I’ve installed Jellyfin but couldn’t get my pc to see folders on the server, when trying to use my pc as the server for my content (only local viewing from my pc).
If I could work out how, I’d have switched.
Surely a permissions issue?
I’ll have another crack at it, it could be, but I’m also wondering if it’s a firewall thing somehow. Or perhaps my specific router (it’s a pretty good one, but perhaps it’s a specific model issue).
I will do some more forum searching and try to get to the bottom of it. Tbh, Plex has done everything that I’ve asked of it, partly why I’ve just used that for the time being, but I would like to get Jellyfin up and running. Cheers.
If you are opening Jellyfin on the same PC as the Jellyfin server is running and you can’t see the media, that couldn’t be the router, I don’t think. The traffic wouldn’t even go through the router in that case, right? (
localhost)Yes, I agree. From memory, I could see the files and watch movies from the pc that the server was installed on, the first time.
I can’t recall if I could, the second time, but probably. I certainly couldn’t see the movies, from the Nvidia Shield Pro, but it was possibly a router issue, not sure.
As soon as dolby vision is fixed in jellyfin for android tv I’ll switch
I don’t have any issues with DV on android TV with jellyfin ? What do you encounter ??
Jellyfin just won’t play dolby vision 4k Blu-ray rips and falls back to hdr, a fix is in beta last i checked
after upgrading and doing the key rotations and such - i also turned off remote access. except now my rokus, on local lan, cannot access my plex svr.
seem to be getting pointed in the direction that i need plex pass for this? or to allow ips / mask to have login unauth…
freaking odd.
now turning remote back on doesn’t stick. that’s a plex pass thing? remote access?
i might try jellyfin just because of plex annoyances.
The fragility of local streaming without internet, even with a lifetime pass, is why I left Plex.
I’m always amazed to see there are people still using Plex.
I have a lifetime pass and there is remote streaming without needing to setup of a bunch of technical stuff for me and my user base. If I was only using for myself, I’d use jellyfin, but I have over a dozen users that aren’t going to setup tailscale or something similar to access it. Also, I’ve personally never had any issues with the platform. Yes it’s enshittifying, but it hasn’t reached a threshold where I need to do something about it.
This is completely reasonable, and I’m not sure why it has to be explained in every single thread about Plex.
Because Jellyfin users need to feel smug for some reason
Alot of Lemmy users are like this
Yeah, the lack of streaming proxy seems to be the only real killer feature that Plex has.
Tools like Netbird makes setting that up so easy though, it’s not nearly as painful as older tools like Tailscale and ZeroTier. Even my mom was able to set it up on her devices.
I’m always amazed to see there are people still using Plex.
I’m always amazed when Jellyfin users lack the minimum critical thinking to see that there are valid reasons for that
I didn’t mention Jellyfin, there are other options that just the two ya know? My amazement comes from the fact that Plex, as a corporation, has consistently shown that they hate their own customers. I am equally surprised when I see people still use products by Microsoft, Google, META, Etc, however Plex is particularly perplexing (pun intended), as their core users are not the “general public” but rather a slightly more technically minded subset that should be more adept at seeing the better alternatives.
Call it smugness if you wish though
The thing is it still works though. I paid for a license, it still works, so why would I switch? Do I wish they would actually add features to the core media server and not just their attempts at capitalization? Sure, I would. Does the fact they don’t inhibit my ability to use it? No
at seeing the better alternatives
As for example? A mediaserver that allows remote streaming without installing elaborate vpn schemes, whose media matching works reliably and that enables me to use hardware encoding for multiple 4k streams?
I’m going to shill any particular media server, I’m sure you’re perfectly capable of comparing and selecting on your own, nor an I trying to suggest that any will have the same feature set or all the features you wish for out of the box. I’m only expressing surprise that people, particularly people in the homelabbing/self-hosting community, are still using a product like Plex
Why are you perplexed people will still use something they paid $10 for a decade ago that still works for exactly what they need? Sure, don’t start with it now, but why stop if there isn’t anything wrong with how they need to using it? This is going to sound instigating but I truly would like to understand, what drives you to make multiple comments on a subject with no impact on your life what-so-ever just to put people down?
Well, initially I made a comment saying I was surprised, because I am continuously surprised by it, very simple. And then I continued to comment in response to others who were responding to me.
I never meant to put anyone down, and I’ve reread all my comments and I do not see how any of comments were putting people down? (except perhaps for Plex corporate, but I don’t care how companies feel)
It was more the overall tone of the comments than the words themselves. But that could be an anchoring bias based on your "I’m always amazed " comment that comes across as belittling those who choose to continue to use their Plex service.
Upon re-read in a neutral context the other comments are indeed not putting anyone down. My apologies
My TV has a plax app. It doesn’t have a jellyfin app.
Yeah. I’m only torn between Jellyfin and Emby. Emby seems to handle hardware acceleranion better without any additional setup and I find the automatic identification of my media really inconsistent between them. Sometimes I get fed up with one and move to the other and everything is automatically detected. Then as I slowly add stuff things are no longer automatically detected well. I move back to the other one and I find that lots of things aren’t automatically detected.
I’ve been on Jellyfin for several years and have never had it fail to identify anything, but then again most of my media is fairly typical/pedestrian, so maybe if you have some more niche media.
Jellyfin, go with Jellyfin. If your find yourself switching between something open and something closed, the openness should be the tipping factor. ❤️
