Jellyfin: Free software media system

Post by opless » Sun, Jun 18, 2023, 4:02 PM UTC

princevegeta89 wrote: post #187

BeetleB wrote: post #171

Every 6 months or so I give Jellyfin a try, and always come back to Plex. I heavily use Plex DVR. Jellyfin is not even close in that regard. Beyond that, I always find annoying bugs with Jellyfin. The last time I tried it, it couldn't handle Photo libraries well. Also, I need it to work on Roku, and the experience has always been poor. I understand some people have very limited needs (stream files on their PC onto th…

Is the Plex home screen still shoddy as fuck? They suddenly shoved my hosted media into a random sidebar menu and started pushing their "free" content on homepage and also started doing purchases and rentals, so is it just getting close to being another Netflix/Hulu? Can't comment on Music, but JellyFin on my Dedicated Server has been very stable. It has indexed a large collection of movies and shows, makes decent re…

Post by kitsunesoba » Sun, Jun 18, 2023, 4:04 PM UTC

jsf01 wrote: post #176

skrrtww wrote: post #174

Trying to move away from Plex on my Apple TV, I installed Jellyfin. Server-side, installation was painless. The Swiftfin Apple TV client, however, is basically unusable. It only allows you to connect to a server instance via unencrypted http:// , including user and password. Indexing is buggy (it seems to think I don't have any TV shows), metadata lookup seems almost nonexistent, with base filenames everywhere and no…

I’ve personally been using Infuse as my Jellyfin Apple TV client and for the most part it addresses those issues, and more importantly it doesn’t attempt to live transcode video, which may be what’s causing the crashes you’re describing. The main downside is that there’s a monthly fee if you want it to support 4k video.

Post by princevegeta89 » Sun, Jun 18, 2023, 4:06 PM UTC

opless wrote: post #191

princevegeta89 wrote: post #187

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Is the Plex home screen still shoddy as fuck? They suddenly shoved my hosted media into a random sidebar menu and started pushing their "free" content on homepage and also started doing purchases and rentals, so is it just getting close to being another Netflix/Hulu? Can't comment on Music, but JellyFin on my Dedicated Server has been very stable. It has indexed a large collection of movies and shows, makes decent re…

You can unpin the value add stuff from the sidebar in Plex.

Post by kitsunesoba » Sun, Jun 18, 2023, 4:10 PM UTC

soulofmischief wrote: post #194

kitsunesoba wrote: post #185

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The language doesn't necessarily have to be lower level, just less finicky about the environment it's running in. Docker might technically qualify as a fix, but I'd rather that the software be engineered well enough to not need it.

I'm not sure that ensuring BSD support is a requirement of well-engineered software. You're welcome to start your own project vs. complaining about Jellyfin, a free and open project. I just wouldn't confuse their product focus with badly engineered software on account of it using a modern language. Anyway, there is Docker; You could spend the rest of your life shaking your fist, or you could just run it via Docker an…

Post by kaetemi » Sun, Jun 18, 2023, 4:11 PM UTC

urbandw311er wrote: post #45

PUSH_AX wrote: post #13

For years I just wanted a good user experience playing video files from my MBP to a TV, I spent a lot of money (on NAS, chromecasts etc), used a lot of software with objectively terrible user experiences (Plex I'm looking firmly at you). Finally, I discovered the combination of Jellyfin and Infuse App. It works really well.

I’d be interested to know what you find terrible about the PLEX UX. I’ve been a happy user for years and have found the user interface to be reasonably intuitive. Perhaps dense in places, but certainly not terrible in my opinion.