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4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

For the love, as a Plex alternative, they don’t even have a native app on all major tv stores. It should be a P1 feature. I would throw money at them if they get Apple TV support. Right now, there are no functional apps running on the latest Apple TV OS.

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For the love, as a Plex alternative, they don’t even have a native app on all major tv stores. It should be a P1 feature.

Are you really bitching this hard about a completely free and open source project?

It's not technology or finances that kill most FOSS projects and burn out the devs. It's this kind of shitty entitled unappreciative demanding attitude from users.

As others have pointed out, there are fully functional and good quality frontends available, such as Swiftfin.

[–] dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I maintain open source projects too, and I fully understand the burnout, the pressure from supporters and such. What I was saying is they can do better from a project management perspective. Otherwise I love their work :3

Swiftfin is buggy atm, like my other comment.

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I maintain open source projects too, and I fully understand the burnout, the pressure from supporters and such.

Then you should know better than most that your wording and approach matters.

[–] DoPeopleLookHere@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

I haven't used apple tv in a few years, but like, swiftfin worked just fine for me??

[–] priapus@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Swiftfin?

[–] dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For me the audio is desynced and subtitles are completely broken. :(

[–] priapus@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh weird. I would guess a transcoding issue, maybe double check those settings to make sure you have the right config for your hardware.

Theres also Infuse, its a video player that supports jellyfin, but I think some features are behind a premium purchase.

[–] dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 months ago

Yeah. The entire jellyfin support is behind subscription.

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I believe Infuse has Jellyfin support on Apple TV. But they want like £100 for a lifetime license or £2 a month / £13 a year.

[–] dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago

Yeaaaaaaaah, I mean it’s a good app, but I don’t know if it justifies a $100 license.