Small plug to ask for help with the Apple TV App? Swiftfin is really rough but the best option. It’s quite terrible, never refreshes, overlapping text constantly. It could use some love.
Infuse is polished, I lack nothing in it on ATV.
Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
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Yup, it’s a great UX and it makes the media experience feel finished, not hacky.
I wonder if we are starting to see a generational gap in how we consume media. When I was growing up, there was no "media experience," you just turned on the TV, selected your channel, and there was your show. Or your turned on the TV, pushed the VHS tape into the VCR, and your movie started playing. Every once in a while I start looking into things like jellyfin and after a few hours poking around, eventually start…
Jellyfin took me 20 minutes to setup with docker-compose. I’ve never customized anything about it aside from pointing it at my media library. It’s way less effort than making an SMB share play nice with a smart TV.
Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
#223Recently 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…
That’s very detailed. Sounds like you have everything the way you want it. So plex would probably add nothing.
Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
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I paid $75 December 2013 and then a similar amount as you in 2021 when I set up a system for my parents. $750 is insane considering how little they care about user feedback.
The lifetime model isn't sustainable, that's why they're pricing it out.
It had been sustained for something like 14 years, though?
Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
#225Recently 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/
How is that even a viable business model? I don't know a single self host person that would pay a subscription for something they are hosting
There are lots of folks self-hosting the music app Roon and paying for it.
Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
#226Please execute my ignorance. And this isn't an attack on anyone, just my own stupid limited understanding.
Aren't JellyFin & Plex essentially just a catalog for your local data (most likely torrented movies, etc.) in a web app? If so, what's the big deal?
edit: ah, i missed the BIG transcoding part.
Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
#227I simply could no longer provide the effort (mental or time-wise) that the role demanded, and thus I was not performing my duties to an acceptable degree, facing severe burnout, and risks to my mental health. [...] We've proven that FLOSS works, and is in demand. If "FLOSS works" maintainers shouldn't be "facing severe burnout", I've come across two more in the past week alone: * Filebrowser (Mar 2026): https://hacdi…
FLOSS works because when maintainers need to leave the project doesn’t die.
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#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
According to this Forbes article [1], Plex earns the majority of their revenue from selling ads in their streaming platform: > Valory said that Plex, which currently does not disclose financial information, generates roughly 20 percent of its revenues from member subscriptions, which unlock premium capabilities of its media platform, compared to 80 percent from the ad business. So possibly they are just trying to ext…
I have seen people talking about this "hosting a small streaming service for friends" thing, and I really have trouble understanding that. It just seems a bad idea to expose such a server to the Internet and maintain it, even with a VPN, and I don't know what kind of friends they have. That's a lot of effort for very questionable return, considering the requirements for your hard drive space, bandwidth, the time it t…
They’re not “friends”, they’re people paying a small fee to conveniently access pirated media.
Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
This is not a rant or an attack on you. I get the point of easyness that Plex and/or Jellyfin offer. I merely would like to explain why i do not need it. I tried both Jellyfin and Plex, but i could not find a huge benefit in using them in our household. Again, not a rant. I think it's an extra layer on top of things i do not need. I do not need cover art, descriptions or trailers. The smb shares have a folder hierarc…
Plex makes it much easier for non-technical relatives to interact with my media server. That's my own use-case.
Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
#230I simply could no longer provide the effort (mental or time-wise) that the role demanded, and thus I was not performing my duties to an acceptable degree, facing severe burnout, and risks to my mental health. [...] We've proven that FLOSS works, and is in demand. If "FLOSS works" maintainers shouldn't be "facing severe burnout", I've come across two more in the past week alone: * Filebrowser (Mar 2026): https://hacdi…
> If "FLOSS works" maintainers shouldn't be "facing severe burnout" So your success criteria for ”FLOSS works” is that zero people involved in it experience stress related issues?
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