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Do 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 mi

Do 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 ago
emby and jellyfin work just great and jellyfin is free & OSS
- cassianoleal 3y ago
  Jellyfin 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 ago
      I 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.
flutas 3y ago
The only premium feature I'm using is hardware encoding personally.
scktt 3y ago
hardware en/decoding for sure. im not sure if it is still the case, but prior to pruchasing the liftime account playing back media remotely from a phone/tablet was limited to 10 minutes. i have 3 kids, and we regularly take long drives. 10 mins would not cut it. i also share my content with family, which again i think is harder without a subscription.
Krisjohn 3y ago
Plexamp and Wireguard have revolutionized music in my car.
slimebot80 3y ago
Downloading onto devices is my only real feature Sure there are other ways to do it, but Plex just makes it easy, so I paid
kyriakos 3y ago
Skip intro feature is only available on paid version and works really well.

katbyte 3y ago

emby and jellyfin work just great and jellyfin is free & OSS

cassianoleal 3y ago
Jellyfin 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 ago
    I 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.

flutas 3y ago

The only premium feature I'm using is hardware encoding personally.

scktt 3y ago

hardware en/decoding for sure. im not sure if it is still the case, but prior to pruchasing the liftime account playing back media remotely from a phone/tablet was limited to 10 minutes. i have 3 kids, and we regularly take long drives. 10 mins would not cut it. i also share my content with family, which again i think is harder without a subscription.

Krisjohn 3y ago

Plexamp and Wireguard have revolutionized music in my car.

slimebot80 3y ago

Downloading onto devices is my only real feature Sure there are other ways to do it, but Plex just makes it easy, so I paid

kyriakos 3y ago

Skip intro feature is only available on paid version and works really well.