Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

Post by marcodiego » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 12:33 PM UTC

input_sh wrote: post #150

bobuk wrote: post #129

I've read the whole thread and am absolutely surprised. Why is nobody telling about plex's ditching of their plugin system? Have invested a lot of time in developing plex's plugin for youtube, twitch, and my favorite streaming services, paid a lifetime fee to plex. And now the whole plugins system is disabled. That's the only reason why I've switched to Jellyfin. It's not better than plex. It's definitely worse, but…

> but it's open, and that's how I am sure it will work forever. Why are you so sure about it? IIRC Emby was also open sourced before it wasn't, at which point it was forked into Jellyfin. Based on that alone, I wouldn't be too surprised if Jellyfin pulls the same thing down the road, forcing you to move to yet another fork down the line.

Post by MikusR » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 12:50 PM UTC

jeroenhd wrote: post #139

MikusR wrote: post #27

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No transcoding. Jellyfin simply running uses too much ram (like 10 times plex does) so pi runs out of memory and starts swapping.

Jellyfin runs on about 700-800MiB of RAM for me. It sounds like you're hitting a memory bug if you're running out of RAM just serving files, to be honest. I've never used Plex but I doubt it runs with just 70MiB. Perhaps it'll use much more RAM transcoding, but I'd still expect a dedicated 2GiB to be plenty for Jellyfin even in extreme cases. I doubt you'll get any decent transcoding speed out of ffmpeg if you need a…

Post by bluGill » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 1:13 PM UTC

input_sh wrote: post #170

WastingMyTime89 wrote: post #157

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It's a community project started after Emby became closed source. They have multiple contributors who don't assign copyright. They legally can't become closed source even if someone wanted to. No one owns the whole code.

> They have multiple contributors who don't assign copyright. But that doesn't guarantee they wouldn't if Jellyfin approached them like "here's $X for writing this code". Or try hiring them from the start and asking them to sign a contract that transfers their copyright over to the company. Or maybe the contributors would tell them no, make a media fuss about it, and then Jellyfin's team could track down their commit…

Post by rglullis » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 1:19 PM UTC

addingnumbers wrote: post #174

rglullis wrote: post #156

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It is not just about solving bugs, it is also about gaining mindshare. If a user comes to me and (politely) says "I want to use your product, but while issue X is not solved I will have to stay with your competitor", guess what will get prioritized in the backlog?

How are the ones who don't come to you contributing, though? You said merely using it is a huge contribution, but this example goes beyond just using it.

Post by joshspankit » Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 1:48 PM UTC

josteink wrote: post #162

joshspankit wrote: post #62

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I consistently argue that the issue with Plex is not income, but desperately attempting to rebrand as a “legitimate” media centre. Look at the marketing materials and features from the last few years: Specifically trying to avoid any thought of pirated content.

> I consistently argue that the issue with Plex is not income, but desperately attempting to rebrand as a “legitimate” media centre. If they are low on income due to non-recurring life-time purchases (which I have made myself), and the streaming thingies offered is a income-driver... I say it's both. > Look at the marketing materials and features from the last few years: Specifically trying to avoid any thought of pi…