Plex has overhauled its apps from the ground up to make them easier to navigate. The teams says it will be able to roll out new features faster as well.
    • gianni@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      The quality and features of JellyFin are nowhere close to Plex. I have used both for years.

      • thundermoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        I’m in the same boat as you. I’d love to switch but the user experience of Jellyfin is still pretty bad outside the most basic cases. If you have a media center PC, it’s fine, but if you want to be able to switch between several devices the way you can with Netflix, it’s quite poor.

        Plex is slowly trending down and Jellyfin is slowly trending up. I hope Jellyfin outpaces Plex before the enshittification is complete, but it’s a steep hill to climb.

      • verdigris@lemmy.mlEnglish
        01·
        3 months ago

        Quality is fine, sounds like user error. Features sure, but that’s to be expected with a paid app.

        • gianni@lemmy.caEnglish
          0·
          3 months ago

          Show me an AppleTV JellyFin client that “just works”. Something my mom & dad could use to watch a movie. Something that can do normal media player things like seeking or subtitles.

          There is a huge disparity in the quality, support, and features of the various clients.

          • verdigris@lemmy.mlEnglish
            01·
            3 months ago

            I don’t use Apple products so I can’t speak to the AppleTV support.

            But your criticisms seem to be of clients for Jellyfin rather than Jellyfin itself.

    • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      I jumped to linux and downloaded jellyfin… shit is too complicated I havent got time to get to terms with it

      • Zozano@lemy.lolEnglish
        0·
        3 months ago

        Are you using the LSIO docker image, or did you install it manually via the official website instructions?

          • Zozano@lemy.lolEnglish
            0·
            3 months ago

            There’s a much easier way.

            https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-jellyfin/#usage

            Copy the text from the docker-compose section, and paste it into a file called compose.yaml

            You can also add your other programs which rely on each other (Sonarr/Radar/qBitttorrent) in this same compose.yaml file (you can find them on this website).

            When copying the other programs, omit the lines:

            ---
Services:

            After that, in your terminal, navigate to where the compose.yaml file is, and run this command

            docker compose up -d

            Now your suite of applications are installed and can talk to each other.

            You’ll need to change some of the details of the compose file (to set timezones and media directories).

            You can restart programs with

            docker restart jellfin

            LinuxServer.io are basically your one-stop shop for home-server applications

  • Amius@pawb.socialEnglish
    0·
    3 months ago

    I used plex for years and years with my lifetime license, but a few years ago I felt Plex was way too bloated and swapped to Jellyfin. I don’t think about Plex now unless an article mentions it. There’s no feature of functionality I notice that’s missing, and I have a low tolerance for dealing with troubleshooting when I want to relax.

    • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      3 months ago

      They finally added intro skipping within the last month that works with the web client. Now we just have to wait for clients to update.

      • locuester@lemmy.zipEnglish
        01·
        3 months ago

        How about iOS downloads for offline viewing? Server transcoding?

        I’m a lifetime plex user but this enshitification has been increasing a lot lately.