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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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[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Jellyfin doesn't really do anything better than Plex. If someone already does have a Plex pass, then the best you can say about Jellyfin is that you're glad things are missing (Like Discover/Plex Channels/etc). Also, the level of support for Jellyfin just isn't there. Plex doesn't always have great support, but answers to technical problems in Jellyfin are frequently just "Don't do that". As others have mentioned too, the experience of sharing your library with isn't really even comparable. Your chances of sharing your Jellyfin library with your grandma are near zero unless you just do it for her.

The process of setting up Jellyfin as a backup solution actually led me to experimenting with Emby. Unless something crazy happens to my current Plex implementation I'm still not going to proactively switch, but Emby legitimately does (rarely) have some features where it has a leg up on both of them.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

My chances of sharing a Plex library with grandma are also zero. I would still have to set it up for her. That's a non argument.