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Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by hsbauauvhabzb »

monkpit wrote: post #102
hsbauauvhabzb wrote: post #23

Is it just me or has plex slowly become less stable? Everything from random crashes which can be solved by exiting and reentering the stream through to subtitles just not working at all?

On the fire tv client, every time I load up the client and watch the 1st video, none of the ui/buttons respond. If I back out and go back in then it all works fine. Started a few months ago after working perfectly for years.

I have that also, using a chrome cast, as well as the inbuilt chrome cast on another tv.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by WastingMyTime89 »

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…

I just use Jellyfin with transcoding disabled. It’s still nice having a web client and being able to watch anywhere. Plus it doesn’t cost me a dollar a month which is nice.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by shrx »

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/

If everything else fails, there's always ncmpcpp: https://rybczak.net/ncmpcpp/

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by ClumsyPilot »

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…

> I don’t need a NAS with a powerful CPU

I have a home server with i3 8100 desktop, I wanget to get Intel Quicksync transcoding to work

The amount of trial and error that took - linux situation is trully dire

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by cprecioso »

aix1 wrote: post #160
d4rti wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

How are you watching IPTV on Plex? I thought they only allowed that through an actual tuner (+ a Plex Pass)

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by Matl »

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 find https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org to be great across Linux and macOS alike.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by 10729287 »

dmitriid wrote: post #173
colordrops wrote: post #34

Plex is one of the reasons I now always choose open source over closed source but free as in beer. They start out great but as financial constraints creep in the compromises are made that create a very unpleasant experience. For example, I'd love to use Obsidian, which is an amazing app, but who knows what will happen to it in the future.

> I now always choose open source over closed source but free as in beer. > They start out great but as financial constraints creep in Funny how you talk about financial constraints, and still refuse to pay for software.

Paying won't guarantee you the soft you pay for won't switch business model for subscription, or sell to a bigger company that will extinguish it.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by jannes »

jghn wrote: post #43
colordrops wrote: post #34

Plex is one of the reasons I now always choose open source over closed source but free as in beer. They start out great but as financial constraints creep in the compromises are made that create a very unpleasant experience. For example, I'd love to use Obsidian, which is an amazing app, but who knows what will happen to it in the future.

With Obsidian the thing that made me ok with this was it's all just markdown. I have all my data stored locally in an ubiquitous file format

lol, wasn't it the same with Plex? They just built lots of features around locally stored data.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by BrandoElFollito »

I use Jellyfin because I like to have everything in docker containers and be able to always access the service via a browser. It works great on a PC and on my Android (where I have an app as well).

This makes it also easier to secure the service via a proxy.

Where Jellyfin is abysmally bad is Amazon Firestick. I tried to use it but it would always crash after some time, I gave up and am using VLC + SMB on the TV. This is not sexy at all but at least I can watch a movie.

Re: From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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Post by LASR »

Wintereise wrote: post #166

Plex' Android TV app (ATV) is a travesty in regards to pretty much every feature that matters. From broken playback state tracking, "currently watching" that just won't go away (obvious local state management issues), subtitles that randomly won't show up (no matter what you do), un-configurable +30s/-10s skip options, outright crashes (that toss the local state of whatever you were doing), fun with HDR playback (goo…

Subtitles timing has been broken for a decade. I gave up trying to have that fixed.

For unrelated reasons, I switched my home devices to AppleTVs recently. The Infuse app works very well as a Plex client.

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