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I have used Plex for about 12-13 years but am very very far from a power user. I find it mildly annoying I need to login but other than that I've not noticed an
by jghn 4y ago
I have used Plex for about 12-13 years but am very very far from a power user. I find it mildly annoying I need to login but other than that I've not noticed anything that annoys me. I admit this is most likely due to how little I use it and how non-advanced that usage is. Given this, is there any value add to Jellyfin for someone like myself?
My read on this article is that it gets back to an earlier, more raw state of Plex. For my use case my interpretation is that would mean extra work for potentially lower quality, and unlikely any value add given that nothing annoys me about current Plex. Does that sound right?
- qudat 4y ago> For my use case my interpretation is that would mean extra work for potentially lower quality, and unlikely any value add given that nothing annoys me about current Plex. Here's a positive example from my experience from switching to plex to jellyfin. When I drop files into my movie/tv folder jellyfin automatically syncs the files whereas in plex I always had to go to the page and click a menu icon and then click sync folder. Maybe there's a way to do it in plex that I don't know about but jellyfin did it by default. I also find the web version of the media player better on jellyfin. I hated the google auth login to plex, and so far jellyfin feels lighter weight. Like you, I don't need advanced sharing options and or anything beyond a private website that I can play my movies/tv shows so plex always felt overkill.
- endisneigh 4y agoBoth Jellyfin and Plex sync by default automatically but Plex’s default was a few hours or so.
- qudat 4y agoThanks for the info, didn't know that about Plex. A couple of a hours does not work with my workflow. I get a movie, add it to my media folder, and then I want to watch it, so I'm not surprised I missed it.
- endisneigh 4y agoYou can change the frequency to be as short as you want, fyi.
- lostlogin 4y agoYou can have the library update on change or at set time intervals if the auto detect doesn’t work. See this article: https://support.plex.tv/articles/200289306-scanning-vs-refreshing-a-library/ https://support.plex.tv/articles/200289306-scanning-vs-refre...
- Gamemaster1379 4y agoI believe config settings exist for Plex to be more aggressive. Alternatively if you use third party software like Radarr or Sonarr they can use webhooks to update instantly when media is added
- jghn 4y agoas i said in my ancestor post i'm far from a power user. its quite likely i tweaked some setting several years ago and forgot about it. I put something in my flex drive and it's there within seconds.
- Semaphor 4y agoJellyfin syncs on changes if the media location is local, their regular sync is only there as fallback for network shares.
- cogman10 4y agoplex also syncs on FS change (It's never failed for me) but that might be an OS/FS dependent thing. Works great on ZFS + Linux for me.
- russelg 4y agoIf you don't want to pay for Plex then you don't have hardware transcoding. This is of course free in Jellyfin.
- dylan604 4y agoWho has hardware for transcoding any more, and what hardware is modern for that? Last dedicated hardware encoder I used was bad old days of MPEG2 for DVDs, but that went the way of the dodo when MPEG2 went native to the CPU. Never used hardware for h.264/5. I guess there was a board for J2k doing realtime lossless, but that was 2010ish. So I'm legit curious what hardware transcoding looks like today, and that Plex charges for the pleasure
- InvaderFizz 4y agoGPU accelerated transcoding. Skylake and newer i3 or higher Intel iGPUs can do simultaneous transcode of 20x 1080p streams without breaking a sweat.
- snoopy_telex 4y agoI bought a GPU to get smooth 4k sources streaming to my devices.