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I get that lifetime is a long time and this doesn't affect existing customers... but what's the point of paying so much for Plex when Jellyfin is free?
For me, the biggest reason I stick with Plex is because I have people who watch my library on PS4 and PS5, but Jellyfin doesn't have media apps for Sony platforms.
Do these platforms have Kodi? If so, I think it’s even easier to access any library.
For me it's basically the same. I have people who use my library and they can access through anything. And I can access through anything because everything has a first party app. I don't have to dig around and sort out code or any third party options. There's a first party app for everything.
I took a while to get my lifetime plex pass, but I got it last black Friday and I really couldn't be happier.
I know jellyfin is great and I know plex has some sort of limitations that just paid users can get but, still, I'm paid user and I can use it pretty well. Jellyfin is great but requires too much config and some of my users don't want to mess up with that
Less point every day. Jellyfin is getting better and Plex is getting more expensive and occasionally worse.
Jellyfin isn’t meant to be used for remote streaming, isn’t compatible with most devices people use to stream media too, and is a nightmare to share your library with friends and family.
Plex solved all of these problems like a decade ago.
Huh?
Just download the Jellyfin app on whatever device and log in... Or use the web browser
Oh I’ll just wish the app into existence on every device lol
I mean, it's on Android, iOS, Apple TV, Android TV, Fire TV, Tizen/Samsung TVs, LG TV, Roku, Xbox...
What's the issue?
they want it on EVERY device. geez.. nobody ever thinks of punch cards and 8tracks anymore.
I didn’t like Plex back then, Jellyfin was non-existent at that point. I stuck with Kodi on PCs and laptops (and Android, where you can have Kodi no problem), and VLC on iPads and iPhones. And for a dumb-smart TV (which has no Kodi) a basic UPnP server (Kodi has it in settings) does the job.
What are these friends and family devices? You can share content to Kodi not only via UPnP, but also via ftp. Which I found many times simpler and even faster, with no difference at all on the client (Kodi).
I may have missed something, but in my extended family everyone is covered quite easily. VLC for iOS isn’t that fancy comparing to having covers, metadata and all, but if they know what they want to watch, that’s no problem at all.
We’re talking about Plex and Jellyfin here…..
And which project Plex was forked from? Remind me, pretty please.