Honest question, because I know multiple people who are not looking to jump ship since they already have the Plex Pass.
4 people host libraries that my tech illiterate boomer parents access.
One login, many servers, singular interface.
That is very specifically the situation I’m in. Jellyfish, emby, you wanna whip up a persona… that’s a pretty damn clear-cut one for ya
Impressive! Is it possible to learn this power?
Yeah for sure. Super easy. Merely be born in 1959
I have both. Plex for family and Jellyfin for me. I still don’t have hardware transcoding working (probably a permission thing. It’s always permissions) and haven’t had much time to tinker this year. Plex just… worked.
I can use Jellyfin without transcoding, but only one or two users at a time is all my CPU can handle.
Are you running it on baremetal or in a VM?
Both are docker containers. It can detect the card, but ffmpeg crashes with an error and that’s as far as I got.
I haven’t given up, life just got busy for a bit as often happens.
Okay, I haven’t tried using docker, so I can’t help directly, but I set up my Plex server with help from Jellyfin documentation. You could probably find something in there about setting up hardware acceleration on docker, if you haven’t already. They should work with Plex, as well.
Oh, HW works on Plex just fine.
Same, directplay at 1080
I paid for it ages ago on a deal, and it currently suits my needs. It runs as a docker container and it just works. It’s easy enough for my elderly mom to use remotely and I’ve ripped my entire movie collection for her to watch. I also like the live tv that’s included with the pass.
I would switch in a heartbeat if it wasn’t doing what I need, but so far I have no complaints, it works well for my family’s needs.
I run both, I got the lifetime license for under $100 and it is much easier to have my various family members install the Plex app and then login than to get them on my VPN to access Jellyfin.
Grandma ain’t installing Tailscale
I stopped using Plex because it was buggy for me, stopped using Jellyfin because it didn’t have an app for my smart TV, and now I use Emby because it’s pretty simple, works amazingly and is free.
Now, go ahead and tell me that Emby supports baby eating facists or something
I got a lifetime pass for cheap ages ago and while the company isn’t doing so well, Plex itself isn’t getting any worse. Its just not getting better.
As long as that continues, then I’m fine with staying. I only really use it for Plexamp anyway.
oh I forgot about Plexamp. Its been my main music app since it also does Android auto.
It just works so well and nothing else comes close so far.
I run jellyfin now after the whole plex pass incident (in not going to pay to host my own pirated content, and that’s just that)
But honestly plex has a better ui and featureset.
That said jellyfin has been perfectly serviceable for me. The app is good. I can select stuff. Play it. My wife can work it just fine.
Life time subscriber since a very long time. So no need, but I would have switched if there was a decent Xbox or LG TV app.
Plex works for me, Jellyfin doesn’t because of missing apps 🤷♂️
Plex clients arent great, but they are better on many TVs compared to jellyfin. Also the wife is used to it, so I don’t really want to retrain
I’m afraid of exposing HTTPS to the open internet.
The UI didn’t support remotes on console and use tiles. Really amateur shit. No need to set up a reverse proxy. I have a lifetime, zero need to switch.
JellyFin resource usage is absolutely horrendous and my NAS is a potato. I basically cannot run it at all.
This is all a fascinating thread because everyone says Plex “just works”
I started using jellyfin about 6 months ago. I don’t really know anything about plex use. However, jellyfin worked out of the box for me. Set up with a docker container and have never had any problems with it.
Its never failed to load media, or loaded duplicates or any of the other random things others have mentioned here.
For the most part it feels like people in the thread have just used Plex for a long time and had their first impression of jellyfin years ago and probably haven’t checked it out since.
Which, fair play to them, life gets busy and setting up and migrating a media library is something that takes at least a couple hours which could be spent doing anything else.
If people are new, I’m sure they won’t even bother with Plex and their ridiculously high fees. I cannot see Plex maintaining their userbase at this rate.
With them unable to maintain their userbase, I give it a year before they cancel lifetime passes and 2 years or so before it’s completely enshitified and unusable.
Jellyfin is great and I run both. However, sharing access with family is a PITA compared to Plex. I paid for Plex Pass lifetime at the $75 and have no reason to fully move. Keeping Jellyfin around in case Plex tries to rug pull lifetime passes, though.
I tried to switch, about a year ago. Playback stuttered and or completely failed more often than not, on content which worked fine as-is in Plex.
