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plex or Jellyfin?
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this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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A good middle ground is emby. I've been using it for a couple years now and it's been solid.
I was a happy Emby camper a couple of years ago. But Emby started to add features behind paywall . Jellyfin is a fork of Emby so it was easy for me to switch.
I'm fine with that personally, it takes a lot of hours to develop features. They have to make money somehow if they want to make it more than just a side project. Jellyfin last I played (1-2 years ago) with wasn't where Emby much less Plex is. Missing a lot of features I grew dependant on. Been itching to try it again since Jellyfin January on the Self Hosted podcast tho.
Server wise they are practically identical, but the AndroidTV app of jellyfin lags behind quite a bit, the media player is bad, it doesn't handle well changing subtitles, moving the clip forward and backward... Some of these are fixed by using an external video player, but weirdly enough there have been some movie formats that jellyfin couldn't handle (the TV app) and emby did.
I just wish that the TV app were identical to the android app with remote functionality, but I'm no android dev so I'll stay put and wait.
Same for me.
-It works well
-my dad (who has dementia) can use it
-It runs even when the net goes down (means my dad is happy)
-Can Transcode for our TV's with premiere (would rather not have to pay for that)
Have been thinking about Jellyfin...as I like the FOSS angle...and seems like it is gaining a lot of traction in the selfhost community. I host Emby Server on my Unraid server and our nVidia Shields play content great using the Emby app. Going to be investigating Jellyfin when I start to move the rest of my serivces off of Unraid.