Sips'Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff
Leaving this completely unrelated link to a better alternative here: jellyfin.org
ccunningAm I correct that there is no first party Jellyfin app for AppleTV?
Correct and what I’ve seen from Jellyfin / Emby are poor looking at best. While I could cobble together a system that works for me, there’s no way anyone I share with would put up with it. Plex is PLEX for a reason.
There is not, but Infuse is what the Jellyfin project officially recommends.
WaterSwordYes. But there is a different option. There’s a list of clients on the website.
stephaaaaanThere is Jellyfin, Swiftfin, and Infuse - the latter being 3rd party, but its my favourite so far in terms of stability :)
If I remember right I tried to do the Infuse free trial but either Apple or Infuse was choking on processing the trial request and I could never use it.
Lyra_LycanNo but there is an Emby app for every device.
Emby is a paid service right?
hauiIf you use plex and jellyfin anyway, i suggest checking raspberry pi and kodi (libre elec) as an alternative. The pi4 is fine for hd at least, some use it for 4k but i have no exp with that. It works well and helps you get off the apple ecosphere.
Taasz/WoofJellyfin really needs to work on security and server discovery.
As it is right now you have to manually input the server URL unless it’s on the same physical network, discovery won’t even work with broadcasts across VLANs, or over the internet.
Possibly linuxI think the better answer would be to not expose Jellyfin to the internet.
Although it would be cool if it integrated with something like p2panda or libp2p
MaggiWuerzeAnd with that it loses any edge it had over Plex. If I have to install a VPN on every device of every user, just because the project wont adhere to basic security practices, then I will not switch to it.
I still would choose Jellyfin over Plex in a heart beat. You don’t need to switch if you don’t want to.
Thanksss for your permission
It loses a massive feature that Plex has and does really well in that case.
It doesn’t even work right on the same net sometimes.
“Better”
Maybe if they’d fix their glaring security issues
Or their convoluted settings. When there’s a github project that does the HW encoding settings for you, you know it’s intuitive…
Use free streaming sites.
Anything that you want to ‘collect’ can be stored on an external hard drive and taken with you where you need to go.
Don’t overcomplicate things just to fit in with losers on the internet.
It’s plain deceitful to say jellyfin is simply better. It’s simply less capable and less supported. I don’t know if you’re trying to deceive others or just yourself.
Here’s the difference: With Plex it’s trivial to invite other people to watch content from your server, they can view it on just about any device they have and it doesn’t take any complicated networking setup to achieve. Likewise, just as you share your server, you can view content from other people’s servers through the same interface. This is not a small feature it’s the primary feature of Plex, it’s what sets it apart from xbmc or any media center software.
I am totally on board with OSS and I would absolutely use jellyfin in a second if it could do the things that Plex does. But it can’t.
As a side note, this new interface for Plex on mobile is absolute shit, a big step backwards. If I had my way I’d still be using the Plex app from 2016.
No it’s not they have to create a Plex account if putting a URL in a window is to technical then creating an account is. Also jfa-go has made inviting so easy.
I just looked up jfa-go, I’m not at all opposed to trying things if they’ll work.
It seems like jfa-go is a user account management system, which is indeed super useful. But it doesn’t handle the remote content part. I’m still not going to create a VPN to share content.