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The app isn't available on as many platforms. The original comment claimed the TV their MIL uses doesn't have a Jellyfin app and would require side loading. I would argue that's a pretty big barrier for most people.
https://github.com/Georift/install-jellyfin-tizen
Samsung is being a bit of a dick apparently.
It's the setup which doesn't pass the "wife" test. The more setup friction, the lower the likelihood that average users will bother. It requires a very easy setup experience to retain the average user. Even us technical people have limited time in the day. If I get a similar experience out of both Plex and Jellyfin, I'm going with the software which is easier to set up. Most of us are at that point in our lives where we'll pay for convenience.
It never occurred to me that when people talk about “wife factor”, they mean setup. I also thought they just meant use.
My wife uses Jellyfin and complains about it less than Netflix or Prime.
My wife is an iPhone and Mac user and asks me to set all her Apple stuff up. I get asked to fix things all the time.
Apparently neither Apple or Jellyfin have sufficient “wife factor” if we include setup.
Some movies just refused to play for me. Subtitles for certain releases just straight up wouldn't load on my lg TV, and then instead of nice picture subtitles I got shitty looking ones.
Idk... I ran it in docker and just assumed it'd all work but it doesn't.
Also, I really like that plex stores you're watched state on their server. I lost a jellyfin db once and had to remember what shows I was watching. There's not a good sync to cloud or something feature for that... Yet another container and solution I have to stand up aside from my media