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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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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

A good middle ground is emby. I've been using it for a couple years now and it's been solid.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was a happy Emby camper a couple of years ago. But Emby started to add features behind paywall . Jellyfin is a fork of Emby so it was easy for me to switch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm fine with that personally, it takes a lot of hours to develop features. They have to make money somehow if they want to make it more than just a side project. Jellyfin last I played (1-2 years ago) with wasn't where Emby much less Plex is. Missing a lot of features I grew dependant on. Been itching to try it again since Jellyfin January on the Self Hosted podcast tho.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Server wise they are practically identical, but the AndroidTV app of jellyfin lags behind quite a bit, the media player is bad, it doesn't handle well changing subtitles, moving the clip forward and backward... Some of these are fixed by using an external video player, but weirdly enough there have been some movie formats that jellyfin couldn't handle (the TV app) and emby did.

I just wish that the TV app were identical to the android app with remote functionality, but I'm no android dev so I'll stay put and wait.

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