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I canceled all of our subscriptions about two years ago and set up a Plex server. I don’t love the direction Plex is going in so I’m teeing up to flip to Jellyf

I canceled all of our subscriptions about two years ago and set up a Plex server. I don’t love the direction Plex is going in so I’m teeing up to flip to Jellyfin, but still, it has been so much better than dealing with all of these companies and nonsense. I feel like we can’t even call it “advertising“ anymore. It’s such a misnomer. It’s basically data fracking and psychological warfare to make us all into little addicts. This whole industry built around chasing “the attention economy” is a social blight.

Imustaskforhelp 8mo ago
Jellyfin is nice but I could never understand how to setup when all I wanted was to watch videos from server for example. So I used copyparty[0] and used VLC and set a username and password. I recommend copyparty if you just want something quick and easy actually. Just try it out on cheap VPS and just run it and forget it. https://github.com/9001/copyparty https://github.com/9001/copyparty
- Forgeties79 8mo ago
  The big thing is being able to stream outside of my home network. Running stuff locally is easy enough with basically any system luckily
  - Imustaskforhelp 8mo ago
    Yes but you can actually have Copyparty run as a server similar to Jellyfin and have the same thing too? Am I missing something that I am not looking at? But won't jellyfin have the same issue, I think that plex has servers that you can connect from outside but the GP wanted to move to jellyfin and I was talking about that. And, you can even have plex like thing by just having Cloudflare Tunnels/Tailscale + Copyparty too.
- RiverCrochet 8mo ago
  Jellyfin isn't a simple viewer over a filesystem, you have to make a library and give it folders to ingest. It enforces an artist-album-track structure of media, so if you don't like that structure you'll be fighting Jellyfin more than using it.
cityzen 8mo ago
I had a lot of issues with plex on Apple TV and switched to Infuse. I haven’t tried jellyfin but figured I would mention it.
- Forgeties79 8mo ago
  Huh that’s surprising. So fer Plex has run on everything I’ve ever encountered
dpoloncsak 8mo ago
Similar boat...I'd also like to swap off Plex but a few of my less techie friends use it and I'm worried about the compatibility/ease of setup of Jellyfin on their devices. Thought about running both in parallel but that seems like a waste. Think I just need a migration day eventually
- Forgeties79 8mo ago
  Yeah nothing is as turnkey as plex, hard to give that up if you’re running a little streaming service for friends and family haha
- bombcar 8mo ago
  Jellyfin has been fine "around the house" but I don't know about remote access as I've not needed it. Jellyfin + Infuse + AppleTV is basically bulletproof; however Swiftfin as a client has been working fine.
- devilbunny 8mo ago
  I've never run Plex, or Jellyfin for that matter. There's a video share on my NAS. I point Infuse on Apple TV 4K's at it. It works, and cleanly. Downsides: you have to pay for Infuse Pro to play some formats and deal with some audio codecs. It's IIRC $17 for a year, though, so pretty reasonable for continued development. Your non-technical friends and family can't do the initial setup themselves (it's shared over Tailscale, they can all use the same limited account on your plan), but anyone I'm going to let do this can ship me their Apple TV 4K and let me set it up for them.
  - darkhorse222 8mo ago
    It's just weird that it's this complicated. We should get a static IP from our DNS. We should use standard open source streaming conversion mechanisms. It should go over basic video codecs. Lately I've been working towards just using a webserver to host video files. Sure, it's not adaptive, but for goodness sakes it's simple.
    - 8mo ago

Imustaskforhelp 8mo ago

Jellyfin is nice but I could never understand how to setup when all I wanted was to watch videos from server for example. So I used copyparty[0] and used VLC and set a username and password. I recommend copyparty if you just want something quick and easy actually. Just try it out on cheap VPS and just run it and forget it. https://github.com/9001/copyparty https://github.com/9001/copyparty

Forgeties79 8mo ago
The big thing is being able to stream outside of my home network. Running stuff locally is easy enough with basically any system luckily
- Imustaskforhelp 8mo ago
  Yes but you can actually have Copyparty run as a server similar to Jellyfin and have the same thing too? Am I missing something that I am not looking at? But won't jellyfin have the same issue, I think that plex has servers that you can connect from outside but the GP wanted to move to jellyfin and I was talking about that. And, you can even have plex like thing by just having Cloudflare Tunnels/Tailscale + Copyparty too.
RiverCrochet 8mo ago
Jellyfin isn't a simple viewer over a filesystem, you have to make a library and give it folders to ingest. It enforces an artist-album-track structure of media, so if you don't like that structure you'll be fighting Jellyfin more than using it.

cityzen 8mo ago

I had a lot of issues with plex on Apple TV and switched to Infuse. I haven’t tried jellyfin but figured I would mention it.

Forgeties79 8mo ago
Huh that’s surprising. So fer Plex has run on everything I’ve ever encountered

dpoloncsak 8mo ago

Similar boat...I'd also like to swap off Plex but a few of my less techie friends use it and I'm worried about the compatibility/ease of setup of Jellyfin on their devices. Thought about running both in parallel but that seems like a waste. Think I just need a migration day eventually

Forgeties79 8mo ago
Yeah nothing is as turnkey as plex, hard to give that up if you’re running a little streaming service for friends and family haha
bombcar 8mo ago
Jellyfin has been fine "around the house" but I don't know about remote access as I've not needed it. Jellyfin + Infuse + AppleTV is basically bulletproof; however Swiftfin as a client has been working fine.
devilbunny 8mo ago
I've never run Plex, or Jellyfin for that matter. There's a video share on my NAS. I point Infuse on Apple TV 4K's at it. It works, and cleanly. Downsides: you have to pay for Infuse Pro to play some formats and deal with some audio codecs. It's IIRC $17 for a year, though, so pretty reasonable for continued development. Your non-technical friends and family can't do the initial setup themselves (it's shared over Tailscale, they can all use the same limited account on your plan), but anyone I'm going to let do this can ship me their Apple TV 4K and let me set it up for them.
- darkhorse222 8mo ago
  It's just weird that it's this complicated. We should get a static IP from our DNS. We should use standard open source streaming conversion mechanisms. It should go over basic video codecs. Lately I've been working towards just using a webserver to host video files. Sure, it's not adaptive, but for goodness sakes it's simple.
  - 8mo ago