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Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by pdntspa »

AdamJacobMuller wrote: post #36

Plex seems to regularly add new features which I really have no use for but makes it relatively easy to turn them off if you want. Every month or three when I login to the web interface there's Some New Thing which I need to disable. Recently I needed a 100% offline-capable media player (and while Plex would probably work, it's not 100% reliable) and tried with Kodi. It's a very unfluid experience, requiring multiple…

The thing with Kodi is you set it once and then you pretty much forget about it. I'm not sure what plugins you need because for playing media off a SMB share or local drive it has everything included out-of-the-box. There is some configuration but, once again, its a one-time thing.

I've installed it on dozens of devices over the years (OG xbox, windows boxen, an nvidia shield, raspberry pi clones) and it is and has been amazingly consistent and low-maintenance.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by akdor1154 »

Wow, I did exactly this yesterday. Went super smoothly, and Android, Google TV clients work fine, as does Chromecast. Android Auto support not great but at least did play the music I told it to which is the main thing I guess.

Not any good desktop clients that aren't Electron garbage, but Plex is no better here.

First party docs for setting up Nginx in front of Jellyfin were Really Freaking Good. Like Arch Wiki levels of good.

Put the lot on a Tailscale IP and now I have access to my Jellyfin from anywhere - including, surprisingly, from my chromecast where the the Tailscale app installed without a hitch.

There's an interesting comparison actually between Plex and Tailscale.. both are sorta-in-the-universe-of-open-source-but-not-actually... but I know which one I trust and which one can go and get bent.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by endisneigh »

qudat wrote: post #74
endisneigh wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Both Jellyfin and Plex sync by default automatically but Plex’s default was a few hours or so.

Thanks for the info, didn't know that about Plex. A couple of a hours does not work with my workflow. I get a movie, add it to my media folder, and then I want to watch it, so I'm not surprised I missed it.

You can change the frequency to be as short as you want, fyi.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by lostlogin »

qudat wrote: post #74
endisneigh wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Both Jellyfin and Plex sync by default automatically but Plex’s default was a few hours or so.

Thanks for the info, didn't know that about Plex. A couple of a hours does not work with my workflow. I get a movie, add it to my media folder, and then I want to watch it, so I'm not surprised I missed it.

You can have the library update on change or at set time intervals if the auto detect doesn’t work.

See this article:

https://support.plex.tv/articles/200289306-scanning-vs-refre...

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by InvaderFizz »

dylan604 wrote: post #89
russelg wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ch…

GPU accelerated transcoding. Skylake and newer i3 or higher Intel iGPUs can do simultaneous transcode of 20x 1080p streams without breaking a sweat.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by GranPC »

dbg31415 wrote: post #52

I think it's funny everyone is complaining about Plex forcing you to sign in... and the first thing Jellyfin does when you click "see it in action" is force you to sign in. Just saying...

There is a piece of text just below that reads:

TO LOG IN: User "demo", empty password

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by ethbr0 »

thejman5200 wrote: post #24
kQq9oHeAz6wLLS wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't need secret sale emails, the lifetime Plex Pass is right there on their page: https://www.plex.tv/plex-pass/

Lifetime Plex for goes on sale a few times a year instead of $120 it goes down to like $75. Everybody (including me tbf) just waits a year until a sale and buys lifetime. I don't know why they keep offering deep discounts on their lifetime pass because their userbase has an upper limit - there's only so many people interested in running their own illegal piracy server

Because their lifetime pass is a good way to increase their customer base, who they'll then have to monetize... because they sold an ongoing service requirement for a lifetime price...

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by cortesoft »

InvaderFizz wrote: post #95
dylan604 wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ch…

GPU accelerated transcoding. Skylake and newer i3 or higher Intel iGPUs can do simultaneous transcode of 20x 1080p streams without breaking a sweat.

Sure, but I am never steaming more than one video at a time.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by mgiampapa »

akdor1154 wrote: post #92

Wow, I did exactly this yesterday. Went super smoothly, and Android, Google TV clients work fine, as does Chromecast. Android Auto support not great but at least did play the music I told it to which is the main thing I guess. Not any good desktop clients that aren't Electron garbage, but Plex is no better here. First party docs for setting up Nginx in front of Jellyfin were Really Freaking Good. Like Arch Wiki level…

Plex has a rather good Desktop app with real HD codec support in both a desktop and HTPC interface flavors. https://www.plex.tv/media-server-downloads/#plex-app

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by vachina »

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.

Yeah these sticks tend to use low powered SoC that chokes on anything higher than 1080p, not to mention missing codecs (Dolby Vision, ATMOS, DTS etc.) and lack of compliance.

If you don’t care about any of those or have a TV that don’t do 4K then yeah an Android box and lower fidelity source will do.

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