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It's going to be extremely annoying if Plex goes out of business.
by onychomys 3y ago
It's going to be extremely annoying if Plex goes out of business.
- undersuit 3y agoI just renewed my year.
- bberenberg 3y agoJellyfin is a good alternative
- DANmode 3y agoDoes it perchance have a plugin for replacing Plex's "search various streaming services at once" feature?
- bberenberg 3y agoNot sure, I don't have this use case.
- crobibero 3y agoI haven’t seen a plugin with that functionality so I doubt it exists.
- scarface_74 3y agoDoes Jellyfin have user friendly clients for iOS, Android, Roku, AppleTV and various SmartTVs?
- malermeister 3y agoiOS Yes: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/jellyfin-mobile/id1480192618 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/jellyfin-mobile/id1480192618 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/swiftfin/id1604098728 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/swiftfin/id1604098728 Android Yes: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.jellyfin.mobile&hl=en&gl=US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.jellyfin.m... Roku Yes: https://channelstore.roku.com/en-gb/details/cc5e559d08d9ec87c5f30dcebdeebc12/jellyfin https://channelstore.roku.com/en-gb/details/cc5e559d08d9ec87... AppleTV Yes: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/swiftfin/id1604098728 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/swiftfin/id1604098728 various SmartTVs Depends. The Android ones, yes. There's one for Samsung but it isn't officially packaged yet - works quite well from what I've seen tho.
- mdhen 3y agoLG has a good one
- krisroadruck 3y agoEvery time I've asked them about an app for Samsung or LG tvs - the two most popular brands they've pushed back "we're volunteers, we don't use those TVs, it's not on our to-do list but feel free to code it yourself". They aren't open to being paid to develop it either.
- freedomben 3y agoInteresting, I have a Samsung TV but I'v never even considered running Jellyfin as a native app. I keep the TV off the internet so it can't be a spy box. The Chromecast with Google TV is so affordable and so great, I just use that everywhere. To be clear I'm not telling you you're wrong for wanting to do it on the TV, that's a personal preference, I'm just sharing how I do it in case it helps.
- krisroadruck 3y agoI ultimately ended up getting an nvidia shield, but at that point it solved my biggest gripe with plex so I just switched back to plex and have been happy with it.
- dom96 3y agoAre you not concerned about the Chromecast being a spybox?
- scarface_74 3y agoBut you’re not concerned about ChromeCast - sold by an adTech company - being spyware?
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 3y agoA Roku is what? $50? Cheaper than a new tv and probably a better experience than lgos or tizen…
- alexalx666 3y agoDo you use paid features of Plex and if yes, which ones? Im using Plex daily to stream shows stored on a SSD connected to Windows laptop. I think I would not miss on any paid features they provide. Initially when I decided to try to watch less mindless tv stuff, I thought there will be a plethora of solutions for home streaming but it turned out that the only one that actually works is Plex
- katbyte 3y agoemby and jellyfin work just great and jellyfin is free & OSS
- cassianoleal 3y agoJellyfin is nice. It doesn't work great though. I've had and have way too many issues with it. I run it next to Plex to keep an eye on how it develops. I still have issues with pretty much all clients, from losing server connection information, to jankiness on changing users, or subtitles just not rendering properly, crazy high CPU usage for certain transcodes, etc. Plex just works most of the time. Clients are better (even though the thing about them pushing crappy streaming and live tv stuff bothers me a little), subtitles mostly just work, rendering is ok and most video formats work well on most clients, and so on. I want to like Jellyfin. I have high hopes that one day it will be great and I won't want Plex anymore. That day is not here yet.
- pojzon 3y ago> crazy high CPU usage for certain transcodes The reason I stopped using it for hosting my collection on a PI. Overall decided its just easier to have a public NAS accessible from anywhere. No point to open stuff in a browser when you can simply open a video from another side of the world like a regular local video on my laptop. So much better an easier.
- nickstinemates 3y agoI do both - have it on my NAS exposed as SMB shares but also Jellyfin both on the internet without vpn/tailscale and of course with. Sometimes I want to use a local media player, sometimes, when I am unsure what to watch I browse the media gallery and just watch from the browser. I don't trust Plex. I don't like its media server, all of the dark patterns, the subscription, unknown telemetry (although firewalled.) I liked that it was available as an app on my TV but I solved that a different way.
- katbyte 3y agoemby is a great alternative that allows more control with easy local accounts and no ad supported content jellyfin is also great but lacks apps on some devices and is a 100% free OSS alternative
- RockRobotRock 3y agoI have been a paying supporter of Emby for a while now, and I feel like I bet on the wrong horse. Development is quite slow. It feels like only a skeleton crew is working on it compared to Jellyfin. Neither Emby or Plex are perfect, but Plex seems to handle transcoding better. Emby still has the advantage over Jellyfin of a native Samsung Tizen app, even though Samsung TVs are slow as shit and it's a horrible experience.
- katbyte 3y agowell jellyfin is OSS so if the community is large its going to be hard to match that internally. i went with emby because it has better app support and i know eventually jellyfin will catch up and surpass it at which point it'll be real easy to just switch over. plex was a non starter because they make local accounts hard to use to better push their ad supported crap on users. ie your parents create a plex account to use your server the defaults will mean they see all that ad supported plex content until you walk them through removing it
- RockRobotRock 3y agoI pretty much have to be on-site for any family member to get them on Emby/Plex anyway.
- stiq 3y agoyea - I have a fair number of friends and family who have access to my server. they're gonna be super bummed if it turns off
- fluxem 3y agoPlex has a tough business model. It’s hard to make money from the pirates.
- JohnFen 3y agoI don't know the percentage, but an enormous number of Plex users aren't pirates.
- thfuran 3y agoWhat else do people even use Plex for?
- LASR 3y agoMaybe Linux ISOs encoded as lossy video.
- thfuran 3y agoI heard there's a hidden message from Linus if you play Jaunty Jackalope backwards.
- piperswe 3y agoMy Plex server hosts rips of my (quite large) DVD/Blu-ray/UHD Blu-ray movie and digital/CD music collections.
- freedomben 3y agoBuying DVDs/Blu-Rays, ripping them, and then getting a personal Netflix-like experience instead of the horrible DVD/Blu-Ray player experience.
- thfuran 3y agoIsn't that just expensive piracy?