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plex or Jellyfin? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 years ago by HomelessCanadian@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I’ve got Jellyfin up and running right now on a DS620Slim NAS and it’s running pretty good so far. I’ve seen a lot of people say they prefer Plex over Jellyfin. What are the main advantages to plex?

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[–] bandario@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 3 years ago (3 children)

I used Plex for years.

As soon as I tried Jellyfin with a limited section of my library I was immediately finished with Plex.

Jellyfin works with no internet connection with no stuffing around
The app is far quicker and more responsive and IMO it looks world's better
It handles mixed media libraries better
A vastly larger selection of my library can be played with zero transcoding in Jellyfin. Less load on my server, less load on my client, less load on my drives and a far, far more responsive UI as a result.

You owe it to yourself to try jellyfin. It's amazing.

[–] delvach@lemmy.world 6 points 3 years ago

Plex just started requiring a login to my local server. I don't have a plex account, no reason to get one, I only stream locally. Sounds like Jellyfin is the way to go!

[–] p5f20w18k@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Your 4th point is the opposite for me, any kind of subtitles I have on causes transcoding in jellyfin. Its the only thing stopping me from switching fully.

[–] bandario@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 years ago

Set "Burn Subtitles" to AUTO and grab the Open Subtitles plugin and make sure you are logged in. Beware opensubtitles.com and opensubtitles.org are different logins.

I'd say about 95% of what I'm playing is playing without transcoding to my LG CX Oled with Jellyfin app on it.

I don't know enough about the triggers for transcoding to know why I'm getting this result, but my server has an obscene GPU in it. I'm not sure if this is a factor.

[–] lue3099@aussie.zone 2 points 3 years ago

Interesting that I find number 3 different for me. I have a very heterogeneous library and I find plex better at choosing when to transcode and what quality to transcode.