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Re: Plex's price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin

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Post by array_key_first »

amazingamazing wrote: post #14

Every time I hear of people complaining about paying for software I wonder what people on here do for a living. Is everyone on here getting paid for developing software that’s free?

It's not that people are even mad about paying for software, it's that paid-for software is often worse in unique ways that free software is not! Which is maybe shocking, but not so shocking when one considers that money intrinsicly corrupts everything it touches as it re-aligns incentives.

For example, a lot of paid for software actively disrespects the user. A lot of paid for software degrades in quality over time. A lot of paid for software has far too many ads. A lot of paid for software loses features over time. And on and on. In my experience, that's just not the case in open-source land.

I donate for virtually all my open-source software, usually a lot. To me, it's not just that KDE is free and Windows costs money for instance. It's that Windows sucks major donkey dick and fucks its own customers up the ass, and, on top of it, continues to degrade, whereas KDE is amazing software that gets better and better by the day.

Re: Plex's price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin

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Post by snapplebobapple »

UqWBcuFx6NV4r wrote: post #21

As expected and as is usual I’ve read through another very salty justification for using Jellyfin that is based on anger or idealism. I rarely if ever see anyone making the argument that Jellyfin is actually materially better usability-wise. it’s always, “Plex is going down the shitter, you’ll see!”. OK then, if Jellyfin becomes better, then i’ll switch. isn’t the point that I own the media, so i can switch to whatev…

Its way better for my use cases. Super easy to get the newly unshitified linux client autoloading on bazzite.flirc remote is awesome, not having my data exfiltrated to the cloud to be sold to the hi-hest bidder while charging me for that denigration also super awesome.

Re: Plex's price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin

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Post by snapplebobapple »

cassianoleal wrote: post #74
UqWBcuFx6NV4r wrote: post #21

As expected and as is usual I’ve read through another very salty justification for using Jellyfin that is based on anger or idealism. I rarely if ever see anyone making the argument that Jellyfin is actually materially better usability-wise. it’s always, “Plex is going down the shitter, you’ll see!”. OK then, if Jellyfin becomes better, then i’ll switch. isn’t the point that I own the media, so i can switch to whatev…

I see an almost equal amount of both. I'm still using Plex. It still seems to be better for 90% of my use cases but I'd like to switch eventually. Unfortunately Jellyfin seems to be a lot of work upfront for which I don't currently have the time or motivation.

If you want to install install docker engine (super simple instructions on docker's website) then if you make a directory and put the compose file below in it (you can call it whatever but docker-compose.yaml is a convention choice) and create another directory in that directory named "jellyfin" the below compose file will work mostly out of the box. you just run docker compose up -d in the directory. If you named the compose file something else you just need to specify -f filenameofcompose in the run command. I included an nfs mount example you can delete if you aren't using nfs mount (the volumes: head and examplenfsmount at the bottom) or adjust it/copy it for your nas situation. If you have your media locally mounted on the computer you are doing this on you can change out the xamplenfsmount for /path to your files. you can also duplicate that line for any other paths to media on your system/nfs/etc. once it's up you just go to http://ipofthebox:8096/jellyfin in a web browser and follow the prompts. It's not too bad at all to get going. I'm out of time to check you might not need /jellyfin in the url. if the first line doesn't work try it without /jellyfin

services: jellyfin-jellyfin: container_name: jellyfin image: jellyfin/jellyfin:latest environment: user: 1000.100 #change this if you want your user to not be 1000 and your group to not be 100 should be fine in most cases. TZ: America/Chicago #change me to your timezeone volumes: - examplenfsmount:/mnt/movies:ro - ./jellyfin:/config

    devices:
      - /dev/dri:/dev/dri
      - /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128
    ports:
      - 8096:8096
volumes: examplenfsmount: driver: local driver_opts: type: "nfs" o: "addr=YOURNASIP,nolock,soft" device: ":/YOURNASMOUNT"

Re: Plex's price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin

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Post by cassianoleal »

snapplebobapple wrote: post #94
cassianoleal wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see an almost equal amount of both. I'm still using Plex. It still seems to be better for 90% of my use cases but I'd like to switch eventually. Unfortunately Jellyfin seems to be a lot of work upfront for which I don't currently have the time or motivation.

If you want to install install docker engine (super simple instructions on docker's website) then if you make a directory and put the compose file below in it (you can call it whatever but docker-compose.yaml is a convention choice) and create another directory in that directory named "jellyfin" the below compose file will work mostly out of the box. you just run docker compose up -d in the directory. If you named th…

Thanks for the effort of posting this, but I'm not sure what this solves. Deploying Jellyfin is easy. DRI is easy. Configuring it, herding my library structure, making sure I have friendly file formats, getting the myriad client devices to work, subtitles...

At one point a friend told me "I just went through the Trash guides once and job done". I spent a half hour looking at them, then another half hour giving that stuff ago and threw my hands up in the air and went back to Plex to watch some stuff after a wasted hour.

Re: Plex's price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin

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Post by empireofdust »

hellisothers wrote: post #90
empireofdust wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What made you turn off of sonos?

In case the don’t reply I’m betting it was when they changed their API and broke a lot of existing hardware that took a long time to get working right again.

Ah interesting. I had a 5 year break from them. Just picked up the beam 2 home theater setup and they sound decent + was easy to use.

Re: Plex's price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin

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Post by snapplebobapple »

cassianoleal wrote: post #95
snapplebobapple wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want to install install docker engine (super simple instructions on docker's website) then if you make a directory and put the compose file below in it (you can call it whatever but docker-compose.yaml is a convention choice) and create another directory in that directory named "jellyfin" the below compose file will work mostly out of the box. you just run docker compose up -d in the directory. If you named th…

Thanks for the effort of posting this, but I'm not sure what this solves. Deploying Jellyfin is easy. DRI is easy. Configuring it, herding my library structure, making sure I have friendly file formats, getting the myriad client devices to work, subtitles... At one point a friend told me "I just went through the Trash guides once and job done". I spent a half hour looking at them, then another half hour giving that s…

I found that side easy and the compose file config to be the tricky bit personally, but I have android devices or linux devices, no more exotic things like roku. My directory structure was already /tv/tv show name/season/episode and /movies/movie name/file.mkv/mp4/etc so it just worked. Subtitles was a pretty easy plugin built into jellyfin and maybe an api key (it's been a while I don't really remember).
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