I've only ever used jellyfin and I've loved the experience. For me it was easy to set up and put media on, simple to put on TV, has been utterly reliable and stress free to manage.

The only issues I've had has been tailscale sometimes being wonky or I personally did something dozy on the server machine that I had to fix.

That said, I get why people stick with Plex. Not everyone wants to or are capable of setting things up. For those that have been saying it's really easy, you don't know the other person or their confidence/skill sets, don't just assume, it makes you sound like a Linux bro.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 133 points 5 days ago (17 children)

Welcome to Jellyfin friend

[–] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 46 points 5 days ago

I'm so glad that I changed to Jellyfin. So much better.

[–] Marafon@sh.itjust.works 31 points 5 days ago

Lol that's pretty much how it went for me. One day it pissed me off for the last time. Switched to Jellyfin and never looked back. Should have done it so much sooner.

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Jellyfin simply doesn’t work as well as Plex unfortunately.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 days ago (10 children)

In what way?

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 24 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Sharing and remote streaming, plain and simple. I have no problem setting up accounts for friends, but choosing your server is a pain for some. But the bigger problem is that the first thing anyone will say is: Don't expose Jellyfin to the Internet. That's a bit of a problem.

And they'll then say, "Oh it's not so bad just set up wireguard and..." This is the ramblings of a lunatic. I've been working with tech a long time. Tech is my job. It is my hobby. I do all of it from repairing my own hardware to administering servers to running my own home lab to doing open source development. Wireguard is not friendly. It is not something I'm going to set up at every friend and family member's house so I can share my library.

I've got a more secure but imperfect setup in sticking Jellyfin on the Internet behind a proxy that requires login. But this is not something most people are going to want to deal with. They want to stand up their server and then share it with people.

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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 5 days ago (24 children)

Why the fuck are you not using Jellyfin?

Seriously, the setup is really easy and it just fucking works.

[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Setup is not really easy. Plex takes 5 minutes.

[–] cm0002@piefed.world 23 points 5 days ago (7 children)

It failed the spouse test when I last tried last year

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[–] SpicyLengthiness@lemmy.ca 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Because it fucks up subtitles on their Nvidia Shield and firestick apps, and has issues with transcoding too. If you're purely using the desktop app, or browser then it's better. But Plex just works in every aspect. Subtitles, transcoding, sharing libraries. Have had no issues or weird bugs. Anytime I try JF I have to dive deep into resolving bugs, some of which are unsolvable by me.

[–] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I've been using Jellyfin on both the Fire Stick and Sheild for over 2 years and haven't encountered any issues with transcoding, subtitles, or anything else. You just launch the app and everything just works. And I've got a couple of very non technical remote users who have been using it flawlessly.

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[–] omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

Devil's advocate, it's missing a lot of features that aren't available unless you want to spend 12 hours playing with add-ons.

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've tried to use Jellyfin every year or two for the past six years to replace Plex, but it sadly just isn't there. It's not good in a lot of aspects, especially when it comes to full bitrate 4K HDR movies (100GB movie files), HDR tone mapping, and especially subtitles (which I always have on).

Also, I'm pretty sure on their GitHub page there's like a huge list of some significant or moderate security vulnerabilities that have been known for many years and are never going to get fixed due to breaking compatibility with some old devices if their fixed.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Wait, Jellyfin had HDR tone mapping before Plex didn't it?

In my case running them both side by side, Jellyfin is as least reliable and fast, which is a lot more important when I am thousands of miles away and just want to watch something.

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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I'm not sure I can switch. I have too many friends linked to my server and a decade-ish of watched data.

I know many people watch from TV apps and Chromecasts and I don't know if there's an app for every TV brand for jellyfin or emby or whatever.

People watch from all sorts of weird devices. I got push back when I forced SSL because at least one person had a TV so old that it didn't support doing SSL for Plex. It took me a week to drill it into their brain that I'm not going to change it back and to go buy literally anything to make it work (Chromecast type thing). I think their ended up buying a Roku.

This is just the brainpower that most of the people I share with, have. They just want easy. I do all the hard work in the background and their life is easy.

I can't imagine how many would have a fit if I forced them off Plex. Jellyfin looks cool and all, but it's unlikely I'll be able to move anytime soon.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Why do you let other people dictate how you run your media server?

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

I don't. There's just a nontrivial number of people I care about that use Plex that don't know enough about technology to handle something like jellyfin.

Losing years of watched data isn't great, but ultimately it's small potatoes.

A big part of the reason I wanted to set up Plex to begin with, was so that my friends and family didn't have to waste their time downloading the stuff that all of us want to watch.

They don't demand anything, I want them to be able to use it because I care about those people. If switching to jellyfin is too difficult for the non-techs I care about, then I'll keep rolling with Plex.

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

It didn’t sound like they do. Just that at least one person complained but bought a Roku to fix.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 9 points 4 days ago

You can run Jellyfin side by side and slowly migrate everyone, starting from the most intelligent users (so you can catch anything that might be wrongly configured, etc.).

In the meantime, I hope that so many users are switching that we're going to get better native apps.

[–] descartador@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 4 days ago

I understand that it's not so bad, but you made it sound like a hellish landscape

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[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 19 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It’s now no longer possible to manually refresh libraries from the app. Amazing. Less functionality.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago (3 children)

They've "streamlined" your experience.

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[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 33 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The thing about the redesign that irks me the most is that browsing your own personal library is unnecessarily convoluted the way it’s now organized. It’s a big step backwards in terms of navigation.

[–] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 40 points 5 days ago

this is because your own personal library does not make them money.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 21 points 5 days ago

Oh dude this pisses me off SO MUCH!!! MY DAMN content should be front and center, not your stupid ads.

And now we are on jellyfin and scrapped plex. Fuck them.

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[–] liliumstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Like many others, I switched to Jellyfin years ago. It is way, way better for me. It does what it says on the tin, sometimes more, but not less.

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[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 35 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What did I miss?

[–] cm0002@piefed.world 23 points 5 days ago (5 children)

They like completely overhauled the UI lol

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[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I have Jellyfin in parallel now and I had to face the family during summer with questions like “why I cant do this with the app anymore “ “ why did you change it” sigh 😔 so I started to put energy on jelly because that was unacceptable way to rollout a botched change.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Man it's a real shame that Kevin Spacey being Kevin Spacey ruined that great show for me

[–] Jumbie@lemmy.zip 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

He’s a great actor and he’s a piece of shit person.

[–] Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago

He is so good of an actor he can act like he's not so fucked up.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 days ago (2 children)

This is why I have Plex, emby, and jellyfin running in tandem. Plex still makes my life easier than the other two in a lot of ways, but it's been slipping for years. Once I've finally had enough, jellyfin all the way.

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