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What's wrong with Plexamp? I used it for a few months a year or two ago and I loved it.
You need a Plex Server to run it (unless I'm missing something).
This is the reason I roll my eyes when millennials talk about setting up “their plex” or “their discord”. It’s not your sandcastle if someone else owns the sandbox.
It's profoundly annoying how people flock to these "easy" corporate owned services instead of doing it right the first time around. Network effects make it very hard to get out later and they also make it so others have to get with the program if they want to participate.
I ran Jellyfin some years back, when I was evaluating Plex/Emby/Jellyfin after switching from Kodi, and I probably spent a week or more chasing random issues and crashes. So I put it on the shelf and picked Plex since it was nearly 0 effort and it made the family happy given how easy it was to use (and didn't crash).
Of course people want something that's easy to set up and use. A lot of people want a tool, not a new hobby. And the best way to accomplish that is unfortunately to optimize for ease of setup and stability instead of new features. But that can be hard for an open-source project when everyone is asking for the new thing a for-profit company added to their product.
This is why it's better to control your software. Firms change over time and your interests are likely to diverge from theirs. This is _especially_ true when we're talking about media-related software which is always contentious in terms of copyright. Jellyfin isn't as feature-rich or polished as Plex, but I rest assured knowing that I'm the one who controls my installation.
Unfortunately I've had nothing but headaches with Jellyfin's media streamer. I'm doing a local Jellyfin to their AppleTV client, and it is just glitchy as heck. Plex is almost as good as Netflix's player, meaning completely reliable. Jellyfin's server maybe good, but their clients leave a lot to be desired. The main problem with Jellyfin is that there isn't much money to pay for development. Open Source is great, but…
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What's a good setup to run jellyfin on. I currently run it on a Linux desktop. I tried running it on a raspberry pi, but it felt like it was struggling. Did I expect too much?
Jellyfin is fine if you direct stream only, but any form of transcoding will kill your server. It is a bit hard to get other people to download the desktop Jellyfin Media Player or Infuse on iOS, and I don't think Android has a version of the app with massive codec support.
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I've found that a cheap Dell Wyse 5070 is more than sufficient at less than £50. Pentium J5005, only quad core and no hyper threading, but it is Gemini Lake refresh so can do QuickSync without actually using the CPU. I believe it is something like 10 realtime 1080p re-encoding streams simultaneously. 2-4 4k re-encodes but I've not tested it that much. Multiple USB 3.1 for hooking D4-400s to for ZFS, and two ram slots…
> Multiple USB 3.1 for hooking D4-400s to for ZFS, and two ram slots that claim a max of 8 GB but mines doing fine with 32GB. FYI: running ZFS (or any server storage) on eHDDs isn't a recommended practice[0]. A lot of things can go wrong and, if mine are anything to go by, they don't pass SMART data back to the host. [0]: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Performance%20and%20T... If you're running multiple HDDs,…
I'd wager much more people are doing ZFS + external drives than many people think -- it's very convenient and that trumps recommendations, it seems.
I am aiming to have a proper server OneDay™ and will make sure I get one with enough PCIe lanes so I can have several slots for 4-6 HDDs or SATA SSDs but in the meantime a simple thin client + a professional external HDD has been getting the job done amazingly well.
Use Emby, it's much more focused on accessing your own files, while Plex has shifted towards ad supported movies which are accessible in a million other ways. I assume that's why they are cancelling users who actually use their own stuff.
VLC player paired with a network share does pretty much everything I need to watch local media. I have a Jellyfin instance, and I do like it, but I often find myself falling back to VLC for one reason or another.
Versions of VLC for "weaker" devices like Fire TV do not open network shares sadly.
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I've found that a cheap Dell Wyse 5070 is more than sufficient at less than £50. Pentium J5005, only quad core and no hyper threading, but it is Gemini Lake refresh so can do QuickSync without actually using the CPU. I believe it is something like 10 realtime 1080p re-encoding streams simultaneously. 2-4 4k re-encodes but I've not tested it that much. Multiple USB 3.1 for hooking D4-400s to for ZFS, and two ram slots…
> Multiple USB 3.1 for hooking D4-400s to for ZFS, and two ram slots that claim a max of 8 GB but mines doing fine with 32GB. FYI: running ZFS (or any server storage) on eHDDs isn't a recommended practice[0]. A lot of things can go wrong and, if mine are anything to go by, they don't pass SMART data back to the host. [0]: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Performance%20and%20T... If you're running multiple HDDs,…
I've gone through a lot of different units to find good ones.
This is the reason I roll my eyes when millennials talk about setting up “their plex” or “their discord”. It’s not your sandcastle if someone else owns the sandbox.
It's profoundly annoying how people flock to these "easy" corporate owned services instead of doing it right the first time around. Network effects make it very hard to get out later and they also make it so others have to get with the program if they want to participate.
This is the reason I roll my eyes when millennials talk about setting up “their plex” or “their discord”. It’s not your sandcastle if someone else owns the sandbox.