I have Apple devices and I use Infuse as my Jellyfin front end. It is excellent!
+1 for Infuse, well worth the price!
Don't you have to pay monthly for it unless you splurge for the hundred dollar lifetime? that's a lot of money for an iOS app.
From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server
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Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server
#102Is it just me or has plex slowly become less stable? Everything from random crashes which can be solved by exiting and reentering the stream through to subtitles just not working at all?
On the fire tv client, every time I load up the client and watch the 1st video, none of the ui/buttons respond. If I back out and go back in then it all works fine. Started a few months ago after working perfectly for years.
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#103Plex 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)..
it's not officially supported so there's a workaround but that has its own limitations.
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#104Earlier 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.
I believe config settings exist for Plex to be more aggressive. Alternatively if you use third party software like Radarr or Sonarr they can use webhooks to update instantly when media is added
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#105An open-source (and charityware) software I wrote: Video Hub App - shows screenshots from inside each video as you scroll across the thumbnail (scrub). I didn't like the interface of various video browsers / launchers - perhaps others will find what I created to their taste:
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#106Earlier 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…
I bought a GPU to get smooth 4k sources streaming to my devices.
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#107As soon as there is an Apple TV app I will switch. Infuse is... "fine", but I want an official app.
Here is the beta app for Apple TV: https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin
It‘s a bit unstable for me, so I switched to the web app on my iPad and beam it with AirPlay to my Apple TV.
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#108Earlier 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…
Literally any GPU?
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#109I fell like infuse on iOS and Apple TV is way ahead in simplicity. Share network folder, and done.
Does it have subtitle support?
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#110This all feels like it should be 800x less of an issue because phones & tablets should just be able to connect over SMB & you should use whatever media player you want on your device. Telling your home router to forward 445 is not that hard. Usinf minupnpc or just building in auto-port forwarding would be better. Alas I've seen some isp's block users from connecting to 445, which seems insane (my ispets me host there…
>Telling your home router to forward 445 is not that hard At first I thought this was sarcasm... Dont do not... putting samba or any other SMB server on the wider internet is a bad bad idea. It is a good way to get your system compromised. >>& tablets should just be able to connect over SMB The draw of Emby, Plex, and jellyfin is not just to file browse and open up files They Provide Meta Data about the Media, Play S…
> At first I thought this was sarcasm... Dont do not... putting samba or any other SMB server on the wider internet is a bad bad idea. It is a good way to get your system compromised.
Fearmongering FUDdy advice thats a decade old now. There's nothing in this 10 year old post that seems relevant today, from what I can tell. People just cannot give up their fear! Get over it.
https://superuser.com/a/311664
Post a real reply if you have it but dont just shit up a topic with insubstantiated terrormongering.
> They Provide Meta Data about the Media, Play Series in proper order, Allow you to see rankings, Ratings, provides Art, etc and most importantly Keeps track of play history on a per user basis. SMB would not do any of this.
Have you never used a media player on a phone? They all do this. I should be able to do this with files on my phone, or files shared with my phone. I dont see ehy custom software beyond a regular media playing app is warranted.
Except transcoding. That alone is a harder problem.