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Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by Vrondi »

edude03 wrote: post #251
irusensei wrote: post #174

I’ve stopped using Plex-like stuff. I don’t really need it because transcoding isn’t as relevant as it was before. Pretty much every device I own can play h265 without CPU overhead. What I’m doing is basically a Samba file share + Infuse/Kodi. Thats it. You pretty much get the same results. Infuse can sync between devices using cloud sync and trackt, which can be used through a hide-my-mail account. Kodi can sync wat…

One major upside to plex is the ease of watching content over the internet though. There isn't a an easy way for me to give my friends access to samba over the net and then also 4k blu ray rips are a lot to stream over the internet

...and how secure is this?

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by Vrondi »

aew4ytasghe5 wrote: post #132
dylan604 wrote: post #89

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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.

Sure, it is available, but _why_? For years and years now, even low end devices are perfectly capable of playing media over a network without transcoding being required? Why do people think they need transcoding? Are they streaming to ancient video game consoles from their PCs? I mean, it was helpful when I was streaming to a PS2, but that's a long time ago, now.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by skrowl »

Vrondi wrote: post #275
SyrupThinker wrote: post #198

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> However since moving to MacOS, I have to either use iTunes or Music, […]; they expect me to use their services and that's front and clear, while my local music is hidden away in a menu button. I'm not sure what you are referring to here. Listening to your own music in the macOS Music app is as simple as dragging (importing) the music into Music.app and selecting any of the options ("Recently Added", "Songs", etc.)…

But on OSX, there are TONS of choices for music apps. You just need to bother yourself to explore the landscape a bit. Nobody will force you to use Apple's apps. On Android, PowerAmp is still there and still the best. If anyone ever forced you to use Windows, then MusicBee is the best.

Try Dopamine on Windows. It's very simple and light https://github.com/digimezzo/dopamine

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by barney54 »

skrowl wrote: post #283
Vrondi wrote: post #275

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But on OSX, there are TONS of choices for music apps. You just need to bother yourself to explore the landscape a bit. Nobody will force you to use Apple's apps. On Android, PowerAmp is still there and still the best. If anyone ever forced you to use Windows, then MusicBee is the best.

Try Dopamine on Windows. It's very simple and light https://github.com/digimezzo/dopamine

Why would you use Dopamine instead of Foobar 2000?

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by rektide »

phpisthebest wrote: post #164
rektide wrote: post #110

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> 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 ne…

I am & I have seen a number of people run samba just fine & it took like 20 minutes to set up. Are there reports online of this going bad? Would I be the first ever to try this & to have it explode?

Clutching of pearls yo. It's so not a big deal. Dont be driven by fear, dont sell fear.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by yannikyeo »

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/

I'm using https://www.navidrome.org which support streaming listening on mobile clients.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by stryan »

Vrondi wrote: post #274

Is Jellyfin yet able to actually keep up with auto scanning for new files without taking an entire day? I don't want to have to manually tell it to update all the time, and I don't want to have to wait over night if I let it auto scan. I keep wanting to use Jellyfin, but there just keep being unacceptable flaws like the above (from earlier this year).

Jellyfin should update immediately for local changes by watching the filesystem.

If you're talking about for network shares, that's just a scheduled task. You can set the timer yourself to whatever you want.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by pwinnski »

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.…

Plex is dead-simple for everyone!

Yeah, sure, it's a mild annoyance that they keep trying to enable features I don't need or want. I guess I could stop upgrading. But still, it's pretty easy to go to Settings -> Online Media Sources and set them all to 'Disabled.' With that done, it does exactly what I want it to and no more.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by camel_Snake »

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.…

How do you handle the default quality on their devices? I believe Plex defaults to 720p which forces unnecessary transcoding, and this is a per-user per-device default setting. I have to continuously remind my users how to update their default quality to maximum available.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by hatware »

daemoens wrote: post #276
hatware wrote: post #119

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> I haven't really encountered any issues besides the downtime that has occured maybe twice since I bought the yearly two years ago. > I never really notice those three submenus except when I'm logging into a new device and it takes like ~10 seconds to unpin them. Maybe it's just me, but the way you've written these sentences makes it sound like you have buyers remorse. Doesn't sound like things are "basically perfec…

How does that sound like buyers remorse? Twice over two years is essentially nothing, and I do the ~10 seconds unpinning like twice a year. It's so close to basically no issues I consider Plex to be perfect for me.

Because if it was actually perfect that's the only feedback you'd give...?

> It's so close to basically no issues

There are issues. You can keep contradicting yourself by explaining how perfect means there are still problems. I'm enjoying it.

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