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emby and jellyfin work just great and jellyfin is free & OSS
by katbyte 3y ago
emby 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.