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Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by aix1 »

For me, the main thing that's lacking in Plex is good support for audiobooks.

The storage and metadata backend are good, but I'm on Android and just couldn't find a good app that would:

1. work with Plex

2. play books both online and offline (by pre-downloading)

3. not require the Plex server to be exposed to the internet

4. (nice to have) sync reading position across devices

I played with the Plex app (doesn't remember where I left off), Chronicle (buggy to the point of unusable), Bookcamp (very fiddly to set up, requires the Plex server to be remotely accessible even when on the same LAN).

How's the Jellyfin ecosystem in this regard?

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by jim180 »

least wrote: post #137
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/

and there is foobar2000 for Mac[0]

[0] https://www.foobar2000.org/

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by bullen »

I don't understand why I'm the only one connecting a real low power NUC linux computer to the TV instead?

Wireless keyboard and mouse and you solve ALL media problems!

You can even play Minecraft on the TV, can Jellyfin do that?

That said linux has vsync issues still, but it's mostly unnoticable.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by phpisthebest »

rektide wrote: post #110
phpisthebest wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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…

Yes the entire cyber security industry is just one big con... One big FUD attemptinh to prevent you from playing your media on your phone. You got us... My 20+ years of professional networking and security is a just fear mongering scam....

In reality cve's only get you so far and chances are you have left something open for some one to exploit and are right now probably sending out Nigerian Prince emails from your network or part of a ddos swarm or something like that.

One day I will see a post from you about how to buy some Bitcoin to unencrypt your files

As to "media apps on my phone". Consume media on multiple devices the least used on is my phone. Even if the app on the phone did that it would not translate to my Roku's, FireTVs, and other media devices, and they would not sync

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by TheSecondMouse »

causality0 wrote: post #156

I need to make this jump at some point. I can cope with the money-grubbing UI changes but the Plex App for smart TVs and consoles is by far the worst piece of trash software I've ever used and certainly the worst I still use. It crashes constantly, it displays my progress in a video yet still restarts it from the beginning when I hit Resume, and it has absolutely no idea how to regulate its own performance. It will h…

Is that an Android smart TV, Tizen, WebOS? I have mine setup through an Nvidia Shield (Android), and it's worked flawlessly for years.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by Wintereise »

Plex' Android TV app (ATV) is a travesty in regards to pretty much every feature that matters.

From broken playback state tracking, "currently watching" that just won't go away (obvious local state management issues), subtitles that randomly won't show up (no matter what you do), un-configurable +30s/-10s skip options, outright crashes (that toss the local state of whatever you were doing), fun with HDR playback (good luck, 0 handholding. You just have to make all the stars align yourself) and many, many more problems are routine.

Despite all this though, it is (or at least was 9~ months ago, when I made the switch) so much better than Emby (and sorta, by extension, Jellyfin -- which was much worse) on the same platform that it's astounding.

I remember being super impressed that metadata matching was mostly working for a predominantly ASPAC focused library. Library management in general is much better, now that I think about it.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by aembleton »

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

I've not managed to install Lollypop using mac ports. It's written in python but I think it's ui library doesn't work on mac.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by aix1 »

Is there DVR support and, if there is, how does it compare to Plex?

For Plex, I built a thing that exposes my ISP's multicast TV as an HDHomeRun-compatible tuner, with EPG. This works fairly well.

The main thing that's missing in this setup is support for DVB teletext subtitles in Plex. I end up having to post-process TV recordings to extract subtitles and convert them to SRT. This is all a bit messy, since we get TV from multiple neighbouring countries and there are often multiple languages and different teletext page numbers. Also, the timing tends of be out of whack. This means that the text needs to be re-synchronised with the audio; the thing I have generally works OK, but tends to fall apart when the audio in one language and subtitles, in another.

It would be all much simpler if Plex had the ability to show teletext subtitles when playing MPEG transport streams. Unfortunately, it doesn't.

I wonder if Jellyfin would be an improvement in this regard?

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by Semaphor »

endisneigh wrote: post #68
qudat wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> For my use case my interpretation is that would mean extra work for potentially lower quality, and unlikely any value add given that nothing annoys me about current Plex. Here's a positive example from my experience from switching to plex to jellyfin. When I drop files into my movie/tv folder jellyfin automatically syncs the files whereas in plex I always had to go to the page and click a menu icon and then click s…

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

Jellyfin syncs on changes if the media location is local, their regular sync is only there as fallback for network shares.
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