HomelessCanadianJul 11, 2023

plex or Jellyfin?

https://lemmy.world/post/1343412

plex or Jellyfin? - LemmyWorld

I’ve got Jellyfin up and running right now on a DS620Slim NAS and it’s running pretty good so far. I’ve seen a lot of people say they prefer Plex over Jellyfin. What are the main advantages to plex?

Show threadlinearchaos

Jellyfin:

  • Free
  • Gets the job done
  • Not in financial trouble
  • No layoffs
  • Not trying to sell you stuff
  • Not selling your watch habbits
  • Mainly develops features people want

Plex (paid):

  • Decade of development with pretty solid pay features
  • Easy sharing with friends and remote watching
  • Decent clients for almost every device and more solid transcoding
  • Fairly quick fixes for problems
  • Great intro/credit/commercial skipping
  • Only develops features that might make money
  • In the middle of layoffs
  • Centralized authentication makes is impossible to watch if offline or they’re offline unless you removed local authentication before it went offline.
  • They sell your viewing habbits

Plex is super convenient and slimy

Jellyfin is pure and behind on features, clients and comforts.

Jul 11, 2023 at 1:57pmWeb
Show threadFischJul 11, 2023
You can get intro skipping for Jellyfin too with a plugin. It even works with Findroid, which is a native Android app for Jellyfin. I’ve been using it for a while now (maybe a month or so) and it’s always worked perfectly.
Show threadBrendan McKenzieJul 11, 2023
What’s the name of that plugin?
Show threadOptimisticPrimeJul 12, 2023
You know, its not that hard to just try and google “intro skipper jellyfin” since its actually the name of it, but here you go github.com/ConfusedPolarBear/intro-skipper
GitHub - ConfusedPolarBear/intro-skipper: Fingerprint audio to automatically detect and skip intro sequences in Jellyfin

Fingerprint audio to automatically detect and skip intro sequences in Jellyfin - ConfusedPolarBear/intro-skipper

GitHub
Show threadHomelessCanadianJul 11, 2023
Seems like I’ll continue to stick with Jellyfin because of the offline access. My internet is very spotty where I live so it seems to be the best option.
Show threadGuilty TangentJul 11, 2023

Same here.

My internet connection isn’t too spotty, but having gone through it I found it really annoying not being able to watch my own shows off my own systems just because I can’t auth to Plex’s login servers.

Show threadsnor10Jul 12, 2023

Great list of comparison!

Worth noting that Jellyfin is not only free as in beer (if you selfhost), but also free as in Freedom i.e. open source.

Show threadSRoJul 13, 2023
?! I can watch stuff locally from my Plex server even if my internet is down.
Show threadlinearchaosJul 13, 2023

You have to disable authentication for certain ip’s / local networks. It’s not easy or straight forward, but it works.

Last time I had an outage, I was still watching from my roku and in the browser.