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Is it any better on a streaming box? Most smart TVs are slow as shit at everything. I have an LG and haven't even bothered with the smart functions. If I made decisions, smart TVs would be best effort, always.
I don't know what a streaming box is exactly but,
I don't think that's an excuse when all you need to do is show some pictures and text on screen, not then animate them. The video playing part works great, and streaming at UHD HDR 5.1 works fine. It's just the navigation part that Plex doesn't do well.
And like I said, it's even less of an excuse when Jellyfin doesn't have the same issue on the same hardware.
Another indication that Plex is doing something shitty is that the TVs own screensaver frame rate stutters when Plex is the open application. But not with any other app. So Plex clearly has some kind of working loop in the background that completely fucks its performance.
Welp, it's a good thing Jellyfin works for you.
Definitely happy about that. Feels great to be free of "using the free tier" and to instead be using a completely free solution.