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People who are staying on Plex, have you tried Jellyfin? What about it do you not prefer? (real question) (discuss.online)
submitted 1 month ago by kiol@discuss.online to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Honest question, because I know multiple people who are not looking to jump ship since they already have the Plex Pass.

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[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I see plenty of comments suggesting it's not the set it and forget it that Plex is.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world -5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I have set up both. Honestly Jellyfin was MUCH more easy to setup because Plex requires a very specific way to setup the network otherwise it craps its pants and refuses to work on LAN.

But after figuring out those pain points, both are set and forget. The main differences are privacy concerns vs wide access outside of LAN and on more devices.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

The fact that Plex does not even have settings for hardware encoding, besides on/off, tells me that's bullshit

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Great; post your guide/instructions showing how easy it was.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
  1. Copy the compose.yaml from https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-jellyfin/#user-group-identifiers and adjust, e.g.:
services:
  jellyfin:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin:latest
    container_name: jellyfin
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/Madrid
    volumes:
      - ./config:/config
      - ./media:/media
    ports:
      - 8096:8096
      - 8920:8920
      - 7359:7359/udp
    restart: unless-stopped

  1. Run docker compose up -d

  2. Navigate to http://<IP>:8096

  3. Follow the wizard to create a user and libraries.

  4. Profit

Steps for Plex:

  1. Copy the compose.yaml from https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-plex/?h=plex#umask-for-running-applications and adjust, e.g:
***
services:
  plex:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/plex:latest
    container_name: plex
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Etc/UTC
      - VERSION=docker
    volumes:
      - ./config:/config
      - ./media:/media
    ports:
      - 32400:32400
    restart: unless-stopped

  1. Run docker compose up -d

  2. Navigate to http://<IP>:32400

  3. Create an account with Plex, give them your email and create a password with the specific requirements they impose. Agree with their use policy and confirm the pop-ups about ads and such.

  4. You can now watch Plex media. Clicking your media will only have a link to https://www.plex.tv/media-server-downloads/

  5. Look everywhere to figure out where to add your local media and give up.

  6. Look in Google and no one has this issue.

  7. Spend a few hours trying and give up.

BTW, the issue there that took me months to figure out is that while Plex documentation says that you only need to expose that port, it only works in network host mode, so unless you give it full control of your network it just refuses to work.

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I see more open ports for Jellyfin than I do for plex…..

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So? Jellyfin only needs 8096, the other two are https and lan discovery, you can also add 1900 for DNLA. On the other hand Plex has 8 additional configurable ports for other stuff, but that's besides the point because it requires network_mode: host otherwise it pretends it can't be seen.