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Alternative to Plex? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by vesuveusmxo@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Looking for suggestions for an app my family can use to “stream” entertainment from server to TV/computers while staying within the home network.

I know of a guide to redirect Plex so it doesn’t have to go to the internet, but I haven’t been able to get it to work.

Any recommendations?

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[–] redwoodglacier@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should try a few and make up your own mind; like Emby and Jellyfin.

I have all three installed in my cluster, and jump between them now and then to evaluate how they work for me/my family.

For us, after Plex and over time Emby have been a much "better" experience than Jellyfin; in terms of performance/load/transcoding, how features like sub titles or media scanning or whatever to bugs and crashes.

It makes me sad because I really do wanna go with something more open, but I have to use what works at the end of the day.

[–] vesuveusmxo@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Definately will do. I’ve spent a decade with Plex, built a library and family knows the interface. So if it’s easiest to change some settings, I’ll stay with Plex. If not, I’m going to try JF and emby