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Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by Arn_Thor »

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…

I use it all the time. It allows me to keep the highest-quality videos (4k HDR) for my own use while allowing family to stream it to less capable devices by hardware transcoding and tone mapping. A mid-range 11th gen i5 handles it without a stutter. Got a Plex lifetime pass many years ago and I’ve never regretted it.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by aew4ytasghe5 »

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…

Not sure if you are trolling.

Hardware transcoding is available with modern GPU:s.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by ReptileMan »

RockRobotRock wrote: post #42
codewench wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jellyfin doesn't have an official native app, but there's a quasi-official version [1] you can run. That said, it does require putting the TV into dev mode so you can sideload the app. I've been running it for a while now and it's actually pretty good, I haven't had any major issues except one freeze when searching, but I'm pretty sure that was the fault of the raspberry pi running jellyfin [1] https://github.com/jel…

Yeah this is rough. Not the kind of thing you can easily do on a relative's TV. I would rather buy them a Roku/Chromecast at that point.

There are docker builds which are trivial to run from your laptop.

It requires some terminal stuff, but only for installation.

https://github.com/e7d/docker-jellyfin-for-tizen-installer

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by jjcon »

I’d love to use Jellyfin someday. Right now it doesn’t have broad enough support or the app ecosystem that I need. I use every OS and tvOS under the sun in my family. I need music apps for my music and audiobook apps for my audiobooks, so far I have only found this in plex (in addition to the video/tv/movies app).

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by MikePlacid »

nortonham wrote: post #126
franciscop wrote: post #115

> "My media content had been pushed aside into a submenu while the app promotes its own streaming media and premium services instead." This is my biggest pet-peeve coming from Linux world. In Linux the music players you find bundled with different distros are simple, but they just work. However since moving to MacOS, I have to either use iTunes or Music, and in Android the default music player and the latest updates…

on mac what about iina? also, with brew or macports you can install pretty much any audio player you want

The biggest problem with IINA is that it regularly hangs on the legacy part of my vid collection (you know, mpg files and such), so I had to use it with mpv on standby. Mpv is absolutely stable, so the problem I guess is in some components that IINA added (GUI?).

Besides I am not sure if IINA video collection capabilities cover author’s demands (can’t say, I use it strictly as a player).

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by HideousKojima »

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…

Hardware transcoding includes your GPU doing the transcoding.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by least »

franciscop wrote: post #115

> "My media content had been pushed aside into a submenu while the app promotes its own streaming media and premium services instead." This is my biggest pet-peeve coming from Linux world. In Linux the music players you find bundled with different distros are simple, but they just work. However since moving to MacOS, I have to either use iTunes or Music, and in Android the default music player and the latest updates…

There are a lot of music players for the Mac, here are a few of them:

https://swinsian.com/

https://colibri-lossless.com/

https://cog.losno.co/

https://vox.rocks/

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by dylan604 »

aew4ytasghe5 wrote: post #132
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…

Not sure if you are trolling. Hardware transcoding is available with modern GPU:s.

not trolling at all. i just don't think of the GPU as that. probably silly on my part, but as stated, i come from the world of expensive dedicated encoding devices vs generic parts of a computer you already have.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by thaumasiotes »

Liquix wrote: post #116
ulkesh wrote: post #113

I suppose I understand the reasons people prefer Jellyfin. But on the small chance of liking a commercial product, Plex is truly dead simple for my parents. They have an AppleTV. They signed up. I share it with them via their registered email address. And they’re in. It was as simple a process as I could hope for. That being said, do I like everything they’re pushing for? No. But they at least allow users to opt out.…

Not all commercial software is the devil, but money is the root of all evil. Rember Big G's old slogan before they were beholden to shareholders? Given Plex already employs multiple dark patterns in an attempt to obtain your email address, it's hard to imagine they wouldn't slide down the same slippery slope if they got bigger.

> Not all commercial software is the devil, but money is the root of all evil.

I have a book of Chinese fairy tales which touches on interesting topics like the creation of the world and the beginning of civilization.

On that second topic, it says that shortly after human societies came into being, the men started fighting with each other over the women.

I imagine the mythology is correct that fighting over women predates concern with money.

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