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Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by tkcranny »

internet101010 wrote: post #83
NichoPaolucci wrote: post #38

I’m surprised people reach for plex, not sure what I’m missing - but a Jellyfin container set up has been fantastic for strictly at home usage (running on an old gaming PC). It’s fantastic software - the cross platform applications are pretty useable. Don’t think we’ve even had any major issues over the last 4 years using it. Many thanks to the builders and maintainers, hopefully Andrew can take some rest and know th…

The Apple TV solutions for Jellyfin are inadequate last I checked. Basically you are stuck with Plex and Infuse. I already have lifetime Plex Pass so no reason to care... for now.

Infuse is terrific software, and supports jellyfin and smb. I use it for jellyfin and absolutely love my setup.

I ditched plex because of missing Dolby audio support and all the use hostile channels and “features” years ago, and will never look back.

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by NegativeLatency »

walrus01 wrote: post #26
freetime2 wrote: post #9

Recently Plex increased the cost of a new Lifetime Plex Pass to $750 [1]. It seems like they really want to get most users paying recurring monthly or annual fees. But to me at least that kind of goes against the whole purpose of hosting my own media library. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to Jellyfin for offering an alternative! [1] https://www.plex.tv/blog/new-lifetime-plex-pass-pricing/

I still am not quite sure what value something like Plex offers for my personal HTPC media needs. I have a large collection of disk space that's an SMB file share on my local LAN, on a server in my garage. My home theatre PC mounts it over the LAN. I have an XFCE4 desktop environment on the HTPC with the font size cranked up a bit and can run nautilus, thunar, or any other file explorer metaphor browser to explore th…

I can share plex with my friends and family easily. Your solution sounds good but it’s just too hard for most people.

There are plex client apps for most tvs and boxes, even the really cheap bad ones, and it all just kinda works.

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by cvanelteren »

WD-42 wrote: post #63
declan_roberts wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it going to get better with these departures?

I believe the person leaving was vibe coding too much for other’s taste, so I assume they aren’t the one with strong opinions.

Not sure I would phrase it like this. For context see: https://github.com/andrewrabert/jellium-desktop/issues/109

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

#95

Post by NegativeLatency »

tick_tock_tick wrote: post #67
pudgywalsh wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not amazing, it's as good as it is. Which is to say not great. There is a crazy amount of bugs which I have no confidence will ever get fixed. If you're the type that enjoys tinkering with obscure Linux settings for hours on end, which are certain to break if you dare to update anything, it may be for you.

> There is a crazy amount of bugs which I have no confidence will ever get fixed. Like what honestly I've been running one for years and have had nearly zero issues.

Could try submitting a patch?

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by prmoustache »

judge2020 wrote: post #34
walrus01 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still am not quite sure what value something like Plex offers for my personal HTPC media needs. I have a large collection of disk space that's an SMB file share on my local LAN, on a server in my garage. My home theatre PC mounts it over the LAN. I have an XFCE4 desktop environment on the HTPC with the font size cranked up a bit and can run nautilus, thunar, or any other file explorer metaphor browser to explore th…

In particular the main value-add is that they have clients across so many different platforms, including most major bespoke smart TV brands[0], and their solution to streaming on WAN (HTTPS brokering) is pretty darn good for most people. Accessing my media from hotel rooms is pretty darn seamless, other than the wifi connection sometimes requiring downscaling to 720p or or so. 0: not really an issue nowadays with eve…

I guess this applies to a relatively small subset of population who are always on the riad and travelling for work.

One must have a nightmare of a vacation to even consider turning on a tv in an hotel room, I can't even remember the last time an hotel TV served any other purpose than hanging a wet towel.

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by 2muchtime »

al_borland wrote: post #23
2muchtime wrote: post #6

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What do you mean they’re moving toward trying to be a streaming service?

Take a look at their homepage, you wouldn’t even know they offer a media server looking at this. (The main URL forwards to the watch subdomain) https://watch.plex.tv/ It’s now how a majority of users are using Plex as well. > In 2023, Scott Hancock, Plex’s then-VP of marketing, said that Plex had more people using its online streaming service than using its media server features since 2022. https://arstechnica.com/ga…

I feel very foolish, I thought you were saying Jellyfin was trying to become a streaming service.

I was concerned.

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by walrus01 »

FabHK wrote: post #88
al_borland wrote: post #45

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It lets the user browser with cover art, descriptions, trailers, sorting by release date, rating, etc. It keeps track of watched and unwatched movies. Shows what’s recently be added, recently released. Keeps track of where you’re at in a TV series, to always play the next episode. It can transcode as needed, to something like a mobile device or TV that might be more picky than VLC. Lots of quality of life improvement…

BTW, there was a variant of this discussion with the iPod and mp3 players back then. Some people wanted to manage music "by hand" in the file system, and had various schemes for doing so (folders for genre, then artists, then album, etc.), and wanted that reflected 1-to-1 in the mp3 player. iTunes (and the iPod) had a different idea: The app takes care of file management, and you have a frontend supported by a databa…

The first version in the very early days of 128kbps mp3 seemed to be more popular before people were ripping and encoding music with proper id3 tags. Once it became a defacto standard for proper artist, albumname, tracknumber id3 trags to be embedded as metadata in the mp3, using some sort of automated tool very quickly took over.

I do recall using several different tools about 20 years ago that took a bunch of horribly mangled filename .mp3 files (but which did have proper id3 tags in them, or where the user had manually corrected the id3 tags for the bare minimum of albumname, artistname and track numbers) and then rewrote their filenames on disk to something logically consistent to make them easier to find and move, store, copy manually if needed.

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by BowBun »

NichoPaolucci wrote: post #28
tclancy wrote: post #19

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Yeah the arr stack plus seer. It all feels like cheating. Which it is.

Definitely cheating. I’ve taught my mostly-non-technical gf how to to load up sonarr and add something to the library. Anything we can do to avoid the hodgepodge of 8 different streaming services and rotating availability…

Smart man, I still act as the middleman any time my gf wants a show!
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