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I've been running Kodi ever since it was Xbox Media Center and have yet to find anything more polished. I run via nVida Shield devices as endpoints with attached drives connected to standard audio-video setups (TVs, speakers, receiver/amp, etc.)
Jellyfin is a totally different use case
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Can you explain more? I am using Infuse with nfs mounted shares and have been pretty happy. Anthing to gain from jellyfin?
Not OP, but jellyfin gives you a web interface and multiple user access kinda like Netflix profiles.
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 th…
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?
That's a huge plus, however sadly Jellyfin doesn't handle subtitles well, and I really dislike the lack of a quick "skip forward" action. So I tend to still use Plex.
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.
1. You have to use their login service to log into a server that's... self-hosted.
2. The Plex app has very limited codec support, at least on iOS. In particular, I rip directly from disc and Plex would require transcoding for UHDs, or Blu-rays with TrueHD/DTS/etc. audio. Infuse has support for all of that out of the box so my Jellyfin server doesn't do any transcoding at all, and AppleTV/iPad/etc. are more than capable of decoding even full bitrate UHD content.
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.
Switched from Plex to jellyfin and it's great. Just one (big) issue is that it loses it's Chromecast connection when switching between wifi => mobile => wifi. My terras doesn't have WiFi, so it's a big annoyance.
i never got Chromecast to work with it. There are issues, i tried from browser and Android app.