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If you have an Apple TV, use https://firecore.com/infuse https://firecore.com/infuse. To be fair, it's not exactly the same as Plex. But it covers many of my u

by CSDude 3y ago

If you have an Apple TV, use https://firecore.com/infuse https://firecore.com/infuse. To be fair, it's not exactly the same as Plex. But it covers many of my use cases; - Organizes your media on the fly - Does not do useless transcoding (it was a huge issue back in ~ 2016 for Plex). - Can directly connect to SMB shares, my Synology NAS. - Does not require anything running on the server, so it does not matter your NAS has a decade old MIPS CPU. - List files from multiple cloud providers. - Can also sync with Trakt if you want to keep track of what you watch.

sersi 3y ago
Infuse is great especially coupled with jellyfin, there's also MrMC but the presentation is nowhere near as good.
- awill 3y ago
  Has Jellyfin caught up to Plex yet? I tried it a couple of years ago, and it was miles off.
  - nine_k 3y ago
    One important thing Jellyfin won't do is deciding to block something on its own.
  - tmpX7dMeXU 3y ago
    To actually answer your question without snark, it’s still miles behind. I give the competition a shot once every year or two to see what’s up. It’s never even close for someone that prioritises the things that I prioritise. Every Plex competitor I’ve used makes me feel like I’m using a Linux media player in 2008. Some people get off to that. I don’t.
  - hasel 3y ago
    For some reason the best clients are on Apple devices only, that Infuse and Swiftfin. mpv shim is ok too. That’s my only gripe since I barely touch the actual Jellyfin server interface, it just works. If I had Plex I would also use Infuse too so there’s really no difference except that one is open source, doesn’t phone home, and doesn’t require a monthly subscription.
bouk 3y ago
I use Infuse together with https://put.io/ https://put.io/ over WebDAV paired with https://chill.institute/ https://chill.institute/ It basically gives me Netflix for all the content in the world, would recommend! Put.io does instant downloads if anyone else on the service has ever downloaded the content, which is basically always the case for me.
- vermilingua 3y ago
  Not clear what chill.institute is, private tracker/newshost?
  - arbus5672 3y ago
    It’s a torrent aggregator/search engine
awill 3y ago
Is there a benefit to using Infuse over NFS vs Infuse connecting to Plex? Wouldn't you lose Plex's ability to customize everything (naming, album art, collections, watchlist), not to mention syncing with other non Apple devices in the house.
- msh 3y ago
  Infuse have similar customization, you mainly loose sync to nonapple devices and you cant do transcoding for slow internet connections. The advantage is that you dont need something that can host plex, just a dumb fileshare (or a cloud drive like icloud or google drive). Many routers can fx do the fileshare for you, so you dont need a server to host on.
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- fshbbdssbbgdd 3y ago
  The title of the movie is in the file name, I search what I want to watch and it comes up, what more would customization do for me? Sounds like a time sink. I never had any desire to sync with a device. The movies are from the internet. I don’t want to deal with any hardware uptime or compatibility issues. When I see friends use each other’s Plex servers, half of the time the movie doesn’t play properly because it’s transcoding or something and they spend several minutes fiddling with settings (sometimes not succeeding). Never had this problem streaming from Google Drive with Infuse.
- CSDude 3y ago
  In %99 of cases these data are resovled from the filename in my use case.
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nickthegreek 3y ago
Infuse is a subscription service, as such, is a nonstarter for me.
- drexlspivey 3y ago
  They have a lifetime subscription
  - nickthegreek 3y ago
    So they do.. but everyone needs it. For my Plex, I paid for lifetime and gave accounts to my mother and brother and a few friends. With infuse, everyone needs to pony up. That is a non starter for our use case. Glad to know they do offer it though.
    - drexlspivey 3y ago
      On my parents' Apple TV I just added myself as a secondary user and downloaded Infuse and they have access to it through their account

by CSDude 3y ago

sersi 3y ago

Infuse is great especially coupled with jellyfin, there's also MrMC but the presentation is nowhere near as good.

awill 3y ago
Has Jellyfin caught up to Plex yet? I tried it a couple of years ago, and it was miles off.
- nine_k 3y ago
  One important thing Jellyfin won't do is deciding to block something on its own.
- tmpX7dMeXU 3y ago
  To actually answer your question without snark, it’s still miles behind. I give the competition a shot once every year or two to see what’s up. It’s never even close for someone that prioritises the things that I prioritise. Every Plex competitor I’ve used makes me feel like I’m using a Linux media player in 2008. Some people get off to that. I don’t.
- hasel 3y ago
  For some reason the best clients are on Apple devices only, that Infuse and Swiftfin. mpv shim is ok too. That’s my only gripe since I barely touch the actual Jellyfin server interface, it just works. If I had Plex I would also use Infuse too so there’s really no difference except that one is open source, doesn’t phone home, and doesn’t require a monthly subscription.

bouk 3y ago

I use Infuse together with https://put.io/ https://put.io/ over WebDAV paired with https://chill.institute/ https://chill.institute/ It basically gives me Netflix for all the content in the world, would recommend! Put.io does instant downloads if anyone else on the service has ever downloaded the content, which is basically always the case for me.

vermilingua 3y ago
Not clear what chill.institute is, private tracker/newshost?
- arbus5672 3y ago
  It’s a torrent aggregator/search engine

awill 3y ago

Is there a benefit to using Infuse over NFS vs Infuse connecting to Plex? Wouldn't you lose Plex's ability to customize everything (naming, album art, collections, watchlist), not to mention syncing with other non Apple devices in the house.

msh 3y ago
Infuse have similar customization, you mainly loose sync to nonapple devices and you cant do transcoding for slow internet connections. The advantage is that you dont need something that can host plex, just a dumb fileshare (or a cloud drive like icloud or google drive). Many routers can fx do the fileshare for you, so you dont need a server to host on.
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fshbbdssbbgdd 3y ago
The title of the movie is in the file name, I search what I want to watch and it comes up, what more would customization do for me? Sounds like a time sink. I never had any desire to sync with a device. The movies are from the internet. I don’t want to deal with any hardware uptime or compatibility issues. When I see friends use each other’s Plex servers, half of the time the movie doesn’t play properly because it’s transcoding or something and they spend several minutes fiddling with settings (sometimes not succeeding). Never had this problem streaming from Google Drive with Infuse.
CSDude 3y ago
In %99 of cases these data are resovled from the filename in my use case.

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nickthegreek 3y ago

Infuse is a subscription service, as such, is a nonstarter for me.

drexlspivey 3y ago
They have a lifetime subscription
- nickthegreek 3y ago
  So they do.. but everyone needs it. For my Plex, I paid for lifetime and gave accounts to my mother and brother and a few friends. With infuse, everyone needs to pony up. That is a non starter for our use case. Glad to know they do offer it though.
  - drexlspivey 3y ago
    On my parents' Apple TV I just added myself as a secondary user and downloaded Infuse and they have access to it through their account