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What is your take on Plex vs Jellyfin? I am considering the move, but haven't really had a lot of problems with Plex other than it not being open-source
by princevegeta89 4y ago
What is your take on Plex vs Jellyfin?
I am considering the move, but haven't really had a lot of problems with Plex other than it not being open-source
- yamtaddle 4y agoNever tried it. From reading others' comparisons of them in the past, I think the main material difference is that Plex has clients on a few more-obscure platforms than Jellyfin does (mostly TV operating systems other than Roku or AndroidTV). Me, my server's not strong enough to live-transcode past maybe SD resolutions, and a bunch of my stuff's in h.265, so I'm stuck buying nicer streaming boxes that have hardware h.265 decoding, rather than relying on e.g. Samsung's built-in OS (I eventually even had to give up on Roku, when I got enough h.265 content) so it doesn't matter a bit for me.
- hd4 4y agoPlex just works on LG TVs (i.e. has a native app), Jellyfin doesn't have a native app. Plex is also "good enough" for most purposes and actually relatively painless to set up. It gets shit on a lot here but I'm grateful it exists.