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what is your hardware problem?

al_borland 2mo ago
I’m running Plex via Docker on a Synology NAS. This has been working fine. When I tried to fire up a Jellyfin container, it was painfully slow. Clients barely worked. It wasn’t a good experience. It was several months ago, so I don’t remember all the details.
- igor47 2mo ago
  I wonder if it was just a start up issue? Some kind of initial scan of your database?
  - al_borland 2mo ago
    I waited for all that to finish. I tried to help it along by going through everything so it would cache it all. It wasn’t as straightforward as Plex’s visual, flipping covers over as the metadata loads in for each movie, providing a clear queue and sense of progress. Once on the client side, it felt like those also needed to cache things. The only client that worked semi-well wasn’t a Jellyfin client, but could read from a Jellyfin server. I think it was called InFuse. With that as well, I spent hours simply navigating the app, going to every page, and waiting for it to cache everything so I could then navigate around. Then if I added something new, I needed to go to a page to show it and get it cached.
- infecto 2mo ago
  I don’t know if it’s a synology related problem or just Jellyfin but I have never gotten it running well. Even when it’s running I always get hiccups like server crashed a week later but appears green and running. Or trouble logging into the server using a third party client. Plex has always been perfect for me.
- klik99 2mo ago
  I just set up Jellyfin on an 1819 this weekend and so far it seems great, dunno if it’s improved or my device has bit more oomph - the ui on some devices is not as nice as plex but it’s been great
  - xbmcuser 2mo ago
    Jellyfin has a lot of alternative unofficial apps partly because of it ui as some people that did not like the look built something else. That is the case for almost every client OS
    - klik99 2mo ago
      Hmmm, seems like that is not true for Roku which is specifically the one that is bad - maybe I'll just grab an Onn or something
- addandsubtract 2mo ago
  I run Jellyfin in Docker on an N100 mini PC without problems.
  - Computer0 2mo ago
    My nas has an N100 because I wanted to avoid Synology's shite CPU offerings. I similarly have had no issues.
- corranh 2mo ago
  I’ve been running Plex on various devices for many years and have been impressed by the stability and usefulness. Grandfathered on the old lifetime subscription but I get that $750 seems excessive.
- clundin22 2mo ago
  Could be the hardware acceleration was not mounted to the container.

I’m running Plex via Docker on a Synology NAS. This has been working fine. When I tried to fire up a Jellyfin container, it was painfully slow. Clients barely worked. It wasn’t a good experience. It was several months ago, so I don’t remember all the details.

igor47 2mo ago
I wonder if it was just a start up issue? Some kind of initial scan of your database?
- al_borland 2mo ago
  I waited for all that to finish. I tried to help it along by going through everything so it would cache it all. It wasn’t as straightforward as Plex’s visual, flipping covers over as the metadata loads in for each movie, providing a clear queue and sense of progress. Once on the client side, it felt like those also needed to cache things. The only client that worked semi-well wasn’t a Jellyfin client, but could read from a Jellyfin server. I think it was called InFuse. With that as well, I spent hours simply navigating the app, going to every page, and waiting for it to cache everything so I could then navigate around. Then if I added something new, I needed to go to a page to show it and get it cached.
infecto 2mo ago
I don’t know if it’s a synology related problem or just Jellyfin but I have never gotten it running well. Even when it’s running I always get hiccups like server crashed a week later but appears green and running. Or trouble logging into the server using a third party client. Plex has always been perfect for me.
klik99 2mo ago
I just set up Jellyfin on an 1819 this weekend and so far it seems great, dunno if it’s improved or my device has bit more oomph - the ui on some devices is not as nice as plex but it’s been great
- xbmcuser 2mo ago
  Jellyfin has a lot of alternative unofficial apps partly because of it ui as some people that did not like the look built something else. That is the case for almost every client OS
  - klik99 2mo ago
    Hmmm, seems like that is not true for Roku which is specifically the one that is bad - maybe I'll just grab an Onn or something
addandsubtract 2mo ago
I run Jellyfin in Docker on an N100 mini PC without problems.
- Computer0 2mo ago
  My nas has an N100 because I wanted to avoid Synology's shite CPU offerings. I similarly have had no issues.
corranh 2mo ago
I’ve been running Plex on various devices for many years and have been impressed by the stability and usefulness. Grandfathered on the old lifetime subscription but I get that $750 seems excessive.
clundin22 2mo ago
Could be the hardware acceleration was not mounted to the container.