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Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

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Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

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Post by wingworks »

joshspankit wrote: post #66
flatiron wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a surprising comment! I have a lifetime plex pass from probably 8 years ago. They had a bad release a few years ago that broke some stuff. Made a post. They asked for logs and I uploaded them and they pushed a new build with a fix the next day. Only time I’ve interacted with them and it was super pleasant. My main consumers and my friends with young kids with kid shows and plex runs everywhere and even small…

Depends on whether your wishes align with theirs. For example: the long-term threads asking for a “TV” mode that will automatically play your library in channel format so that you can go channel surfing. Even the very very basic version of this (the ability to automatically update playlists) is essentially a dead thread.

You can use the unofficial Plex API to do pretty much anything you want, if you have some time to set it up. https://github.com/pkkid/python-plexapi

e.g. the auto updating playlist idea would be done reality easily with the python Plex api above.

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

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Post by awill »

afavour wrote: post #67
joshspankit wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That’s hardly surprising. Running an ad campaign of “a great place to store all your illegal downloads” doesn’t seem like a wise strategy. The core problem is that Plex is a business, with investors. Depending on pirated content is not a good model for business success, so they’re trying to pivot. IMO Jellyfin has it right: a non profit, open source solution.

I don't know if it's related to Jellyfin becoming a more viable competitor, but Plex has improved a lot recently. Sync/Downloads are better, the TV apps got a much nicer layout. The metadata agents got updated to be faster. I've been pretty happy lately.

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

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Post by wingworks »

stavros wrote: post #53
whoisburbansky wrote: post #24

Tangential note about Plex; if you're like me and are disappointed by the default buffering behavior in Plex basically making it near-impossible to seek between already-buffered positions easily, I've been using https://github.com/iwalton3/plex-mpv-shim to cast Plex from my phone to mpv on my linux media box with great success.

This is too excellent, thank you. Is there any way to do this without involving the phone? I watch Plex on my computer but I'd love to use MPV as a frontend for it, as Plex can't seek to save its life.

How are you using Plex? Try access the UI via a different browser, or via the dedicated Plex app. Try a few different ones. Personally I use Safari and find I can scroll through my library much faster then the App, or in Chrome. I can also seek pretty quick, even 4k remux files. This is on an all gigabit network. (though client WiFi AC works great too).

But transcoding and trying to seek... isn't the best. At least for my macmini plex server.

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

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Post by m0ngr31 »

I love Jellyfin. The clients aren't super mature, but the addon for Kodi works great for me so that's what I use.

The only thing I missed about Plex was having Plexamp, but now there is Finamp and Gelli for Android and I wrote one called Jellyamp for desktop and now all my media needs are covered

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

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Post by 29083011397778 »

notesinthefield wrote: post #4
jszymborski wrote: post #2

I've been a Plex-to-Jellyfin convert for a long while now, and I've nothing bad to say. I switched because Plex kept pushing their streaming services, and the fuzzy feeling I get from running FOSS. Jellyfin used to run on my desktop which has a beefy CPU/GPU, but runs fine on my puny Synology NAS.

How much of your use is audio streaming? I'm dying to make my collection remotely accessible after leaving the Plex ecosystem.

Another comment not from GP, but I'd recommend Polaris. It's very light (unlike Airsonic), FOSS all the way, and has a functional web client (again unlike Subsonic). Can't recommend it enough

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

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Post by tomnipotent »

firefwing24 wrote: post #61

Jellyfin is awesome, but there's a few caveats for me. - Android TV app is quite unstable. Even if you make it do direct streaming, it's not a flawless playback - Sometimes hangs when clicking next episode. I also kind of wish the login experience was a bit better. - Android App is decent, but for music it's unusable. I'm still using plex + plexamp because that experience is just so much better for me. But, I don't r…

It will also completely delete any local assets if you're using NFS and a mount disappears during a scan. This has happened to me a few times, very frustrating.

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

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Post by whoisburbansky »

stavros wrote: post #53
whoisburbansky wrote: post #24

Tangential note about Plex; if you're like me and are disappointed by the default buffering behavior in Plex basically making it near-impossible to seek between already-buffered positions easily, I've been using https://github.com/iwalton3/plex-mpv-shim to cast Plex from my phone to mpv on my linux media box with great success.

This is too excellent, thank you. Is there any way to do this without involving the phone? I watch Plex on my computer but I'd love to use MPV as a frontend for it, as Plex can't seek to save its life.

I believe the shim is basically set up like a Chromecast receiver, so you can use anything that will cast to it. It should be possible to do that from the browser as well (hit the Cast icon in the upper right and the shim receiver should pop up).

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

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Post by paranoidrobot »

querez wrote: post #35

In contrast to most people in this thread, I don't find Jellyfin to be an all-around great experience. Maybe because I run the JF client on a Google Chromecast, and the "Jellyfin for Android TV" app is very unstable. I get roughly one crash a day, mostly when restarting a movie-watching. The UI is okay, but there are a lot of small annoyances (why is there no "restart from beginning" button? Why can't I use the "whee…

> Why can't a folder contain both movies and tv series?

While your other points I'd mostly agree with, this one you're swimming against the stream here.

It's a pretty standard convention to separate episodic and feature content. There's usually different data sources for each, as well as episodic content being different in structure.

It's probably possible to get all of them to live in the one directory, but if you want a better experience from just about any of the media centre software - you're going to have to get used to separating them.

Ideally something like:

/data/movies//

/data/tv//season /

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