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jellyfin has some nice features that will probably never come to plex, but in the end plex is just so much more pleasant to use. i have both setup against same

jellyfin has some nice features that will probably never come to plex, but in the end plex is just so much more pleasant to use. i have both setup against same library and in practice all i barely use jellyfin except for some minor use cases

marcrosoft 3y ago
I went the other direction. I got tired of Plex trying to jam live tv and other monetizing features down my throat.
- KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
  You can remove all of those with a few clicks.
  - Macha 3y ago
    Sure, but having to keep track of all things the vendor does against my interest and disable them every time they add a new one is a mental burden I'd rather not deal with.
    - KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
      As I said in my other comment, I removed the screens two years ago, post-install, and none have appeared since. This falls significant short of 'mental burden' for me.
  - footlose_3815 3y ago
    I don't think being perpetually reactive is the right mentality. First it's esoteric. You need to know which menu it's in, and what the setting is called. And how does this scale? As more of those feature come, and you cannot opt-out of them, even as a paying customer. Plex has a horrible report with me, and though I still use it, I'm tempted to try other apps now.
    - KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
      I removed the screens containing non-local content two years ago, immediately after install, and it's never reappeared since, nor has any newer version of non-local or ad-laden content. Maybe our use cases are different but there's nothing reactive needed for me.
  - princevegeta89 3y ago
    I can, but my other users in family and friends are getting mad about it
GordonS 3y ago
I tried both a while back, and settled on Plex, as it seemed more fully featured, plus the there's an app for it on my TV, so the UI and UX were better too. What did you find JellyFin had, that Plex didn't?
- magicalhippo 3y ago
  The Jellyfin Android TV app is much faster and more stable the Plex's. For me the Plex app keeps bogging down and crashing several times while I browse my library. That's a huge plus, however sadly Jellyfin doesn't handle subtitles well, and I really dislike the lack of a quick "skip forward" action. So I tend to still use Plex.
  - GordonS 3y ago
    Never had any issues with the Plex TV app myself, other than the number of updates being quite annoying at times.
- rglullis 3y ago
  > What did you find JellyFin had, that Plex didn't? An Open source License
  - GordonS 3y ago
    I mean, while nice, the parent was talking about features, not the license.
    - kkarakk 3y ago
      that IS a feature esp considering how plex gets more and more arcane about new user onboarding to get you to buy their service
sokoloff 3y ago
Pretty much the same here. I bought the Plex lifetime sub many years ago and periodically come across a suggestion to use jellyfin. So I setup the latest jellyfin (fast and easy), point it at the same libraries, install the latest apps on FireTV and mobile, and try it out. I always keep coming back to Plex as the jellyfin experience just seems to have more rough edges and those edges irritate at a time when I'm trying to relax with media. I just checked to see if I put my finger on the rough edges and the biggest one is around navigating through the library. While both Plex and Jellyfin can sometimes fail to find the "best" cover art, Jellyfin misses about 8-10x as often, often yielding random screenshots from the movie or a crazy zoomed-in view of some cover art. Plex far less often misses. (This is running the latest on both and giving both a full metadata refresh of the affected libraries and then the affected title again just to be sure: Jellyfin 10.8.10 and Plex 1.32.3.7192.)

marcrosoft 3y ago

I went the other direction. I got tired of Plex trying to jam live tv and other monetizing features down my throat.

KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
You can remove all of those with a few clicks.
- Macha 3y ago
  Sure, but having to keep track of all things the vendor does against my interest and disable them every time they add a new one is a mental burden I'd rather not deal with.
  - KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
    As I said in my other comment, I removed the screens two years ago, post-install, and none have appeared since. This falls significant short of 'mental burden' for me.
- footlose_3815 3y ago
  I don't think being perpetually reactive is the right mentality. First it's esoteric. You need to know which menu it's in, and what the setting is called. And how does this scale? As more of those feature come, and you cannot opt-out of them, even as a paying customer. Plex has a horrible report with me, and though I still use it, I'm tempted to try other apps now.
  - KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
    I removed the screens containing non-local content two years ago, immediately after install, and it's never reappeared since, nor has any newer version of non-local or ad-laden content. Maybe our use cases are different but there's nothing reactive needed for me.
- princevegeta89 3y ago
  I can, but my other users in family and friends are getting mad about it

GordonS 3y ago

I tried both a while back, and settled on Plex, as it seemed more fully featured, plus the there's an app for it on my TV, so the UI and UX were better too. What did you find JellyFin had, that Plex didn't?

magicalhippo 3y ago
The Jellyfin Android TV app is much faster and more stable the Plex's. For me the Plex app keeps bogging down and crashing several times while I browse my library. That's a huge plus, however sadly Jellyfin doesn't handle subtitles well, and I really dislike the lack of a quick "skip forward" action. So I tend to still use Plex.
- GordonS 3y ago
  Never had any issues with the Plex TV app myself, other than the number of updates being quite annoying at times.
rglullis 3y ago
> What did you find JellyFin had, that Plex didn't? An Open source License
- GordonS 3y ago
  I mean, while nice, the parent was talking about features, not the license.
  - kkarakk 3y ago
    that IS a feature esp considering how plex gets more and more arcane about new user onboarding to get you to buy their service

sokoloff 3y ago

Pretty much the same here. I bought the Plex lifetime sub many years ago and periodically come across a suggestion to use jellyfin. So I setup the latest jellyfin (fast and easy), point it at the same libraries, install the latest apps on FireTV and mobile, and try it out. I always keep coming back to Plex as the jellyfin experience just seems to have more rough edges and those edges irritate at a time when I'm trying to relax with media. I just checked to see if I put my finger on the rough edges and the biggest one is around navigating through the library. While both Plex and Jellyfin can sometimes fail to find the "best" cover art, Jellyfin misses about 8-10x as often, often yielding random screenshots from the movie or a crazy zoomed-in view of some cover art. Plex far less often misses. (This is running the latest on both and giving both a full metadata refresh of the affected libraries and then the affected title again just to be sure: Jellyfin 10.8.10 and Plex 1.32.3.7192.)