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Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by afavour »

ekianjo wrote: post #79
vachina wrote: post #78

Tried Jellyfin, but it doesn’t seem to have the capability to stream directly to my TV, it always wants to transcode it which strips away all the 4K and HDR niceties. While Plex would try its best to preserve the original stream and only transcode what the TV can’t support. Also Plex’s clients are more polished, it actually feels like I’m browsing my own Netflix. You can always turn off third party content in Plex (b…

Use a fire TV stick that costs virtually nothing and install the Jellyfin app. You are done.

“Buy an entirely new streaming device to use this service” is never ever a good answer. “Buy an ad-infested, Amazon tracking streaming device” also feels entirely antithetical to Jellyfin’s open source mission so there needs to be a better answer than that.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by ThrowawayTestr »

vachina wrote: post #78

Tried Jellyfin, but it doesn’t seem to have the capability to stream directly to my TV, it always wants to transcode it which strips away all the 4K and HDR niceties. While Plex would try its best to preserve the original stream and only transcode what the TV can’t support. Also Plex’s clients are more polished, it actually feels like I’m browsing my own Netflix. You can always turn off third party content in Plex (b…

Emby has direct streaming but I've had problems with it. But it's free and the TV app is alright.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by unixhero »

drexlspivey wrote: post #45
probotect0r wrote: post #28

I bought a 4k projector recently to use for a home theatre which came with AndroidTV. I have a small collection of 4k movies and shows that I wanted to enjoy, but my PC was on a different floor from my projector. I had used Plex a long time ago, and looked for an open source alternative and found JellyFin. It took like 20 minutes to get set up and start watching my content on my projector. The JellyFin AndroidTV app…

Chrome actually added HEVC support a couple of weeks ago.

As did the latest version of Plex in its web player.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by xen2xen1 »

gh02t wrote: post #64
colechristensen wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really liked the original homebrew xbmc on a modded original xbox (both plex and kodi are forks) I would appreciate a simpler batteries included media center software in that theme.

Kodi isn't a fork of the old school XBMC on Xbox, it's the direct continuation of the project. After they migrated their focus onto PC and other platforms the Xbox version was actually forked off into a separate codebase and dropped from the main project, but Kodi is the direct descendent/inheritor of the original XBMC. I've been using it since it was still called XBMP, it really hasn't changed that much UI wise.

I tried Kodi for the PC. I turned on UPNP broadcast. It locked up. I had to kill it with task manager. I turned UPNP on on the Xbox XBMC a few weeks later. I had to reboot the OG Xbox. Both of these were about three months ago, they still have the same bugs.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by Aeolun »

colordrops wrote: post #65
jghn wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With Obsidian the thing that made me ok with this was it's all just markdown. I have all my data stored locally in an ubiquitous file format

But there's an entire workflow embedded in the use of Obsidian. It's not "just markdown". That's like saying you could move from vscode to notepad because it's "just text".

It’s not unreasonable to say I could build my own without having to reverse engineer the data format though.

I only lose the convenience of Obsidian, not the data I spent years building.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by indigodaddy »

hatware wrote: post #2

Plex lost their best users by missing the point of self hosting entirely. Nobody wants to deal with third party downtime, even if it is rare and intermittent. I think most products go through phases like this. Plex has some diehards that have stuck around (I think it's just buyers remorse for the Plex pass) but I think they are at a 5th or 6th tier of "customer" at this point, seeing the continuous churn spiral they…

You can’t auth directly to your server from a Plex app with a local account anymore? I thought you could still at some point in the past but haven’t tried it in awhile. I know you can still do that from a web browser (I believe)..

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by dotnet00 »

I check on Jellyfin every few months. So far I still prefer the Plex UI, apps and feature set (especially all the AI based music playlist stuff in plexamp) but I'll switch over as soon as I think the alternatives are competitive.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by dylan604 »

russelg wrote: post #72
jghn wrote: post #47

I have used Plex for about 12-13 years but am very very far from a power user. I find it mildly annoying I need to login but other than that I've not noticed anything that annoys me. I admit this is most likely due to how little I use it and how non-advanced that usage is. Given this, is there any value add to Jellyfin for someone like myself? My read on this article is that it gets back to an earlier, more raw state…

If you don't want to pay for Plex then you don't have hardware transcoding. This is of course free in Jellyfin.

Who has hardware for transcoding any more, and what hardware is modern for that?

Last dedicated hardware encoder I used was bad old days of MPEG2 for DVDs, but that went the way of the dodo when MPEG2 went native to the CPU. Never used hardware for h.264/5. I guess there was a board for J2k doing realtime lossless, but that was 2010ish.

So I'm legit curious what hardware transcoding looks like today, and that Plex charges for the pleasure

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