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People who are staying on Plex, have you tried Jellyfin? What about it do you not prefer? (real question) (discuss.online)

submitted 1 month ago by kiol@discuss.online to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Honest question, because I know multiple people who are not looking to jump ship since they already have the Plex Pass.

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[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I run it on a raspberry pi4 that is also my pihole and after turning off transcoding its runs beautifully. Running in a docker container. With 1tb ssd attached via usb 3 the whole setup cost me about £100 and has been working for about a year now.

[–] manmachine@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

A pi4 is way less potato than my NAS, and I have a big collection of stuff. It OOMs on indexing, I don't even get to trying to run it.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

1TB....?

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are you asking what a TB is or are you suprised i only have 1TB?

I dont leave stuff on there once i have watched it unless i particularly like it. I cycle stuff round. Although i havent hit the max yet and still havent watched it all.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I leave stuff on there partly because a bunch of other people watch stuff and I don't know what stuff everyone wants to watch. And I only want to download things once.

Yes, 1TB seemed very very small but I understand now that you're doing things differently.

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

To be fair, i ended up getting another pi4 and setting it up with tailscale, samba, and jellyfin to give to my dad. As he kept needing to ask me how to get logged into my server. Now he just uses the tv app for jellyfin. I use samba to send him films and shows when he needs them and i remove his old ones in the same way. Works well. But i am now managing two libraries :p