I’ve got Jellyfin up and running right now on a DS620Slim NAS and it’s running pretty good so far. I’ve seen a lot of people say they prefer Plex over Jellyfin. What are the main advantages to plex?

    • sudo_tee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I was a happy Emby camper a couple of years ago. But Emby started to add features behind paywall . Jellyfin is a fork of Emby so it was easy for me to switch.

      • JeremyT@lemmy.teaisatfour.comEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I’m fine with that personally, it takes a lot of hours to develop features. They have to make money somehow if they want to make it more than just a side project. Jellyfin last I played (1-2 years ago) with wasn’t where Emby much less Plex is. Missing a lot of features I grew dependant on. Been itching to try it again since Jellyfin January on the Self Hosted podcast tho.

    • the_thunder_god@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Same for me.
      -It works well
      -my dad (who has dementia) can use it
      -It runs even when the net goes down (means my dad is happy)
      -Can Transcode for our TV’s with premiere (would rather not have to pay for that)

      Have been thinking about Jellyfin…as I like the FOSS angle…and seems like it is gaining a lot of traction in the selfhost community. I host Emby Server on my Unraid server and our nVidia Shields play content great using the Emby app. Going to be investigating Jellyfin when I start to move the rest of my serivces off of Unraid.