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

Jellyfin:

Free
Gets the job done
Not in financial trouble
No layoffs
Not trying to sell you stuff
Not selling your watch habbits
Mainly develops features people want

Plex (paid):

Decade of development with pretty solid pay features
Easy sharing with friends and remote watching
Decent clients for almost every device and more solid transcoding
Fairly quick fixes for problems
Great intro/credit/commercial skipping
Only develops features that might make money
In the middle of layoffs
Centralized authentication makes is impossible to watch if offline or they're offline unless you removed local authentication before it went offline.
They sell your viewing habbits

Plex is super convenient and slimy

Jellyfin is pure and behind on features, clients and comforts.

[–] SRo@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

?! I can watch stuff locally from my Plex server even if my internet is down.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

You have to disable authentication for certain ip's / local networks. It's not easy or straight forward, but it works.

Last time I had an outage, I was still watching from my roku and in the browser.

https://www.howtogeek.com/303282/how-to-use-plex-media-server-without-internet-access/

Trick is, it's 4000% easier to set up when you're on the internet.

You can insert some xml in places if you're offline, but if you're offline, knowing the places is incredibly difficult.