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I'm using Emby; what's the difference with Jellyfin? I dropped Plex because its quality was getting lower and lower, especially chromecast-wise.

afavour 6y ago
Jellyfin is an open source fork of Emby, they went closed source a while ago. When I tested it the Jellyfin server worked great. But the client apps were terrible in comparison to Plex.
- mikepurvis 6y ago
  I'm a reasonably happy Jellyfin user as well. On the one hand I'm grouchy to not have native apps for phones, PS4, etc; on the other, it seems to work pretty reasonably just through a browser.
- alanfranz 6y ago
  So Emby is now closed source? Wow. I didn't get that message. Not that I really care about that for a media server, but it's still strange that I didn't realize that. I think that the main problem with Plex (some of those are the same as Emby) are: * They are trying to add too many features (Plex Arcade? really?) while other features are not stable - chromecast queuing was working then not working then working again with every other release. In the end it stopped working for a while, and I quit using Plex. I just need something to have my collection organized, with a bit of metadata handling and a "watched/not watched" flag. Plex (and Emby) are trying to do an incredible amount of work on top of that. * The price for the "deluxe" version is too steep for a self hosted solution. Netflix Standard is EUR 144/year, Plex is 40 EUR/year (about the same as Emby, btw). And I need to provide hardware, electricity, and content - it's just not competitive. I'd be happy to pay something between 10 and 20 EUR per year for a properly working software of that kind.
ghostpepper 6y ago
Another one I am keeping an eye on is Olaris. It's still in alpha but the codebase is quite nice (go for the backend, react for the front). https://gitlab.com/olaris/olaris-server/ https://gitlab.com/olaris/olaris-server/
- rapfaria 6y ago
  Does it take 12.3GB of storage once cloned and built?
  - cs0 6y ago
    It's 343MB total repo folder size once built. The binary it produces counts for 88MB of that.

afavour 6y ago

Jellyfin is an open source fork of Emby, they went closed source a while ago. When I tested it the Jellyfin server worked great. But the client apps were terrible in comparison to Plex.

mikepurvis 6y ago
I'm a reasonably happy Jellyfin user as well. On the one hand I'm grouchy to not have native apps for phones, PS4, etc; on the other, it seems to work pretty reasonably just through a browser.
alanfranz 6y ago
So Emby is now closed source? Wow. I didn't get that message. Not that I really care about that for a media server, but it's still strange that I didn't realize that. I think that the main problem with Plex (some of those are the same as Emby) are: * They are trying to add too many features (Plex Arcade? really?) while other features are not stable - chromecast queuing was working then not working then working again with every other release. In the end it stopped working for a while, and I quit using Plex. I just need something to have my collection organized, with a bit of metadata handling and a "watched/not watched" flag. Plex (and Emby) are trying to do an incredible amount of work on top of that. * The price for the "deluxe" version is too steep for a self hosted solution. Netflix Standard is EUR 144/year, Plex is 40 EUR/year (about the same as Emby, btw). And I need to provide hardware, electricity, and content - it's just not competitive. I'd be happy to pay something between 10 and 20 EUR per year for a properly working software of that kind.

ghostpepper 6y ago

Another one I am keeping an eye on is Olaris. It's still in alpha but the codebase is quite nice (go for the backend, react for the front). https://gitlab.com/olaris/olaris-server/ https://gitlab.com/olaris/olaris-server/

rapfaria 6y ago
Does it take 12.3GB of storage once cloned and built?
- cs0 6y ago
  It's 343MB total repo folder size once built. The binary it produces counts for 88MB of that.