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Are there any new efforts to build an open source plex alternative? I know about Kodi, but it has its own glaring issues.
by throwaway894345 3y ago
Are there any new efforts to build an open source plex alternative? I know about Kodi, but it has its own glaring issues.
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- dijit 3y agoJellyfin?
- bo0tzz 3y agoJellyfin
- _ea1k 3y agoSeems like Emby and Jellyfin are the two most common alternatives.
- hattmall 3y agoWhen I used to use Plex and it started getting shutdown the hosts always switched to Emby. I have had far more success with Kodi though since the last like 4 years. The real plex alternative to me would be IPTV services that all seem to use Xcodes and have huge VOD libraries. But Kodi + Debrid Services has been great.
- sumtechguy 3y agoplex has one thing over kodi. the streaming bit. But plex also feature wise is mostly stuck with 2008 kodi/xbmc when it forked for my use case. Kodi needs headless to compete with plex. But that is slow going as no one really is really working on it full time. They even added in a couple of years ago the emulation bits again from the original XBMC.
- kyriakos 3y agoPlex recently added skip intro and skip credits features. They add new features from time to time.
- sumtechguy 3y agoSo they added a new plugin? cool. The XBMC system is pretty flexible with its plugins. Does it use a library for it to know the movie you are watching and the amount of time to skip? Or is it just a fixed time skip?
- kyriakos 3y agoAnalyses videos in your library based on audio. For example if there are two or more episodes of a season in your library, checks for the same audio match within the first 20 minutes of the episode between episodes and marks their timestamps. While watching an episode it gives you the Skip Intro button similar to Netflix/Apple TV etc. Somewhat in a similar way the skip end credits works (for example allows you to skip credits in Marvel movies to post / mid credit scenes)
- hattmall 3y agoWhat is the streaming bit you are referring to specifically? I guess like from instance to instance of your own library? You can use Plex as a backend and Kodi as a frontend.
- sumtechguy 3y agothat is correct
- freedomben 3y agoPerfectly set up the plug for Jellyfin! I waited way longer than I should have to migrate. In many cases you don't even need to change anything, just mount your media into jellyfin and it will read everything. Give it time to build out a cache of course. I've been way, way happier with Jellyfin than I was with Plex.
- stavros 3y agoHow is it for CPU usage/general snappiness? Maybe I should bite the bullet too.
- freedomben 3y agoPretty good in my experience. It takes about 10 seconds to start up but once it's warm it's snappy. It ran easily on my pi (without on the fly transcoding of course), although I did move it to a desktop so I could use runtime transcoding because I have a couple clients that don't support all the codecs.
- stavros 3y agoI just tried it as well, thanks! I like it a lot, though I disabled transcoding (all my clients seem OK with the codecs and I just don't like it). I'm switching over to it now!
- kyriakos 3y agoI tried it and went back to plex. It's not bad but lacks polish in its client apps. It's a good effort but plex is still ahead, I have in mind to revisit it though cause I don't feel like plex will stick around for much longer.