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Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by cuban-frisbee »

gytisgreitai wrote: post #23
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.

Can you explain more? I am using Infuse with nfs mounted shares and have been pretty happy. Anthing to gain from jellyfin?

Jellyfin can help with metadata and keeping track of progress for tv shows etc.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by maverwa »

u_boredom wrote: post #29
maverwa wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someone else in the comments here suggested the „Infuse“ app on iOS. It can use multiple backends including jellyfin, plex, but also sftp etc. Cannot speak for its daily use as I just installed it myself, but looks good on the first glance.

This was my dilemma. Infuse is definitely better. However, if I’m paying to use a proprietary front end, I may as well just buy the software that natively works together. Infuse also does not support multi profiles on Apple TV. Which makes it essentially useless for multi-user devices.

Yeah. Just found out that it doesn’t even play anything from my jellyfin without buying the premium version. It lists all the things, but as soon as I want to play anything it asks for the InApp Purchase. Not sure what’s going on there, but I don’t like it.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by marcrosoft »

compsciphd wrote: post #16

jellyfin has some nice features that will probably never come to plex, but in the end plex is just so much more pleasant to use. i have both setup against same library and in practice all i barely use jellyfin except for some minor use cases

I went the other direction. I got tired of Plex trying to jam live tv and other monetizing features down my throat.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by GordonS »

compsciphd wrote: post #16

jellyfin has some nice features that will probably never come to plex, but in the end plex is just so much more pleasant to use. i have both setup against same library and in practice all i barely use jellyfin except for some minor use cases

I tried both a while back, and settled on Plex, as it seemed more fully featured, plus the there's an app for it on my TV, so the UI and UX were better too.

What did you find JellyFin had, that Plex didn't?

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by KnobbleMcKnees »

marcrosoft wrote: post #33
compsciphd wrote: post #16

jellyfin has some nice features that will probably never come to plex, but in the end plex is just so much more pleasant to use. i have both setup against same library and in practice all i barely use jellyfin except for some minor use cases

I went the other direction. I got tired of Plex trying to jam live tv and other monetizing features down my throat.

You can remove all of those with a few clicks.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by WastingMyTime89 »

zeagle wrote: post #25
WastingMyTime89 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I didn't like that you can't outright disable transcoding for content served via their app or in the browser. You can outright disable transcoding. That’s a checkbox in the server option. > both this and the native Android app do not handle Dolby vision or passthrough atmos content properly They do out of the box. Never had an issue with either transcoding disabled. If you have properly configured the source conten…

I'm not sure what to say. Unless this is a recent change in my experience it does not work as intended. I spent a lot of time playing with the various transcoding settings and per user settings and direct path access or the regular way of accessing files. I'm happy it worked for you. I have specific content jellyfin doesn't work with where Kodi is fine and I am just sharing my experience with this software package.

For the transcoding setting, they are indeed in the user profile and work since day-1 as inherited from the Emby fork. It does 100% disable all transcoding for this user.

> I have specific content jellyfin doesn't work with where Kodi is fine

Very surprising as Jellyfin is just a passthrough to Kodi. Did you open a bug report?

> I am just sharing my experience with this software package.

Every post here about an open source project be it Firefox or Jellyfin always see plenty of people sharing their experience with it from a decade ago and panning things that actually work. I usually just read them and move on but sometimes I like to give a counterpoint when it’s about a piece of software I consider quite good.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by sokoloff »

compsciphd wrote: post #16

jellyfin has some nice features that will probably never come to plex, but in the end plex is just so much more pleasant to use. i have both setup against same library and in practice all i barely use jellyfin except for some minor use cases

Pretty much the same here. I bought the Plex lifetime sub many years ago and periodically come across a suggestion to use jellyfin. So I setup the latest jellyfin (fast and easy), point it at the same libraries, install the latest apps on FireTV and mobile, and try it out. I always keep coming back to Plex as the jellyfin experience just seems to have more rough edges and those edges irritate at a time when I'm trying to relax with media.

I just checked to see if I put my finger on the rough edges and the biggest one is around navigating through the library. While both Plex and Jellyfin can sometimes fail to find the "best" cover art, Jellyfin misses about 8-10x as often, often yielding random screenshots from the movie or a crazy zoomed-in view of some cover art. Plex far less often misses. (This is running the latest on both and giving both a full metadata refresh of the affected libraries and then the affected title again just to be sure: Jellyfin 10.8.10 and Plex 1.32.3.7192.)

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by zeagle »

WastingMyTime89 wrote: post #36
zeagle wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure what to say. Unless this is a recent change in my experience it does not work as intended. I spent a lot of time playing with the various transcoding settings and per user settings and direct path access or the regular way of accessing files. I'm happy it worked for you. I have specific content jellyfin doesn't work with where Kodi is fine and I am just sharing my experience with this software package.

For the transcoding setting, they are indeed in the user profile and work since day-1 as inherited from the Emby fork. It does 100% disable all transcoding for this user. > I have specific content jellyfin doesn't work with where Kodi is fine Very surprising as Jellyfin is just a passthrough to Kodi. Did you open a bug report? > I am just sharing my experience with this software package. Every post here about an open…

I appreciate it and the civilized discussion! I might need to take another look at the next major version release. The passthrough stuff if objectively easy to check : tv shows hdr/dv logo, receiver tells me the encoding. I wonder if it just slightly overtaxed the tube shield for the latency.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by lostmsu »

I tried it, but ended up just using file shares. The biggest issue for me is that it does not automatically recognize many movies by their short names instead linking to some obscure thing with a similar name. For instance, since files can not have colon in the name, and many movies do, it gets confused about the title. Another similar issue is about shows and how it recognizes their folder and file structures.

In the end it seems easier for me to just navigate the folder structure and look up any metadata by googling, because I add shows and movies more often than have urges to look up random character's actor.

Oh, and web client doesn't play 5.1

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by rcarmo »

I have tried it a couple of years ago (maybe less), but went back to Plex because of higher polish and family sharing features (which are a little clunky on Plex, but usable). Also, I have PlexAmp set up everywhere (including some Android desktop displays) for music.

How does Jellyfin tackle closed user groups, family photos/videos, remote access, etc?

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