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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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[–] Spiritreader@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Plex has a few more features with plex pass.

However I switched to jellyfin a few years ago because I found everything to be too limiting and dependent on them. Including the necessity to pay for codecs / playback on some of their mobile apps.

Jellyfin is a lot less polished, but it works well and you're in control of everything.

I would recommend trying out jellyfin first. If you encounter some deal breaking issue or aren't happy with it, check our plex.

[–] lol@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Jellyfin is offline too. My internet died for a week and I couldn't log into Plex...

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

You want to access your home media, at home, without contacting Plex servers first? Blasphemy!