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emby 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
by katbyte 3y ago
emby 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.