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 threadlinearchaosJul 11, 2023

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.

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?! I can watch stuff locally from my Plex server even if my internet is down.
Jul 13, 2023 at 6:27amWeb
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.