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I tried to switch to jellyfin from plex, but the TV app is not yet good enough. The subtitles looked ugly, there was no way to customize it. They are huge, almost covering up a quarter of my 55 inch screen. Apart from this one issue, I didn't feel anything missing. It's quite good. I don't see a reason to use plex over jellyfin unless you want some of their paid features.
My question is how easily can you share a library or folder with someone else by just getting their email address? That’s a great feature of Plex
Also recently made the switch. I don't like that there isn't a Jellyfin app for my Samsung TV. Everything else about Jellyfin is 100% superior. Hands down.
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> - Can't connect to people's existing Plex servers. This is such a weird thing to write. I was shocked to learn that very nice seat from my ex-wife's Lexus wont fit in my Hyundai? Is the opposite true, can the plex client connect to jellyfin? Plex and Jellyfin are competitive, why is there some implied compatibility?
I'm not shocked, I was highlighting that Plex has network effects that make switching more difficult.
>When I looked into Jellyfin last year, the main problems were: >- Can't connect to people's existing Plex servers.
that isnt what you wrote is it?
you looked at jellyfin last year and listed that it did not support connecting to plex as a "problem". Why would you think that jellyfin not connecting to plex is a problem?
I have experienced similar issues with Plex (feature bloat), and I just tried out Jellyfin. It seems to do everything I want, with one big exception: I can't get subtitles to render. I did some searching, and it looks like this is a known problem and has not been fixed. Happy to be proven wrong, since everything else about this software looks great. But I need subtitles.
My biggest complaint with Jellyfin and Emby is feature parity across platforms. Most everything works well in a web browser, but I almost never watch films on a laptop. My household uses Roku TV’s and there’s subtitles that just don’t work consistently, transcoding issues that cause entire films to be unplayable (despite working fine in plex).
I really want to switch off plex but with these two issues / core functionality not working I cannot consider it.
> The Jellyfin Android TV app is slightly worse than Plex’s, but they’re both dreadful to navigate with a remote control. Neither apps do a good job with subtitles and subtitle customization. Instead of the apps, I watch media via the Jellyfin web player instead of in a web browser on my home theater computer (HTPC).
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How do I opt out of everything but my locally stored media?
You can disable Online Media Sources in the settings and unpin any section you're not interested in from the main menu. I've done this and the only things that I see in my Plex app are locally-stored contents and my TV channels (delivered over IP by my ISP).
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I think GP's issue is not lack of technical solutions but that most OSs and BigTech are increasingly user hostile to extract more revenue. I alsobfind it concerning that they are succeding. We now have whole chunks of the world's demographic that don't even know it doesn't have to be that way.
Expecting that the typical user wants to use a streaming service, and deprioritising development of tools/components that target other workflows, is not user-hostile. It is clearly the way things are, and the nerds are being dragged kicking and screaming.
- Removing the concept of files, folders, and folder paths
- Removing the concept of URLs and URL resolution
- Saving files directly to a cloud based storage without local offline representation
This is not deprioritising, this actively removing features and being hostile.
More worrying is how exceedingly fragile all of this is. One company bankrupcy, one government embargo, one anti-government protest in an opressive regime and all of your online self is gone.
These kind of threads always bring mostly negative comments out. So let me just add that I've been using Plex for years to play 4k HDR files for myself and transcoded versions for family and friends. And it works beautifully! No complaints really. There's clients for all devices family has, I have all my files, I can share to friends, etc... Yes, they've also added a new streaming service. I really don't see the issu…
1) go to settings -> online media sources and disable everything.
2) click the ‘More’ button at the bottom left then go to these libraries I shared with you and click three dots —> pin for every one of them
3) go to settings —> Quality —> Video quality and select original so you don’t transcode everything to 720p, 2mbps for no reason
4) go to settings —> Subtitles and enable subtitles so you don’t have to enable manually every time you play a video
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I find https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org to be great across Linux and macOS alike.
Woah, this looks like a fork of Clementine! I didn't know it was still around. This was my go to back when I actually kept a local music library.
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I'm not shocked, I was highlighting that Plex has network effects that make switching more difficult.
> p1mrx 10 hours ago | undown | prev | next [–] >When I looked into Jellyfin last year, the main problems were: >- Can't connect to people's existing Plex servers. that isnt what you wrote is it? you looked at jellyfin last year and listed that it did not support connecting to plex as a "problem". Why would you think that jellyfin not connecting to plex is a problem?
A problem can have no obvious solution, yet still be a problem. If you want to use existing Plex servers, then that makes migrating to Jellyfin problematic.