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.
The apps don’t work well at all. If you’re just desktop based, its fine. But Nvidia Shield app, firestick app, mobile app, all have issues with hardware transcoding, and also somehow doesn’t handle subtitles properly. I have had both Plex and Jfin set up side by side multiple times, trying to test if I can make the swap. But JF just has too many bugs on their apps, which is what I use primarily, as do my users.
Sounds more like you had transcoding issues.
Using the Jellyfin Android app and the Android TV app on my Chromecast.
Besides .ssa subtitles I usually never need to transcode. And usually the transcoding reason is me using an incomptaible audio/video source (TrueHD audio and HDR)
Oh so it’s my fault somehow? Sorry but if I use the same library on Plex vs. JF and one works fine, the other doesn’t. That’s not my fault lol. It was set up to hardware transcode, and still didn’t work for many files. Plex did. Same with subtitles. I watched the same file with Plex and JF side by side. Same directory. Subtitles worked with Plex, all fucked up with JF. JF also crashed all the time on my Nvidia Shield.
Listen…
Some weeks ago I had trouble transcoding some anime files. Didnt really work amd had a low processing framerate using VAAPI. Switched to Intel hardware transcodig and suddenly it worked.
I don’t know your setup or when exactly you tried out JF, but theres absolutely no need to be offended.
I had intel hardware transcoding turned on for both JF and Plex. Many files did not work on JF. I am offended and annoyed because people keep telling me it’s my problem - when it’s not. It’s JF issues that are not solveable by me. I even went to the discord and talked to the devs, and they literally said “oh yea we don’t have tons of focus on the mobile apps unfortunately”, and acknowledged that my issue was a bug. Yet people continue to tell me “IT WORKS FOR ME SO YOU’RE DUMB.”
Listen…
I never said it’s a problem you caused.
I literally said that I had a working setup, which suddenly stopped working as expected and I solved it by switching the hardware acceleration setting from VAAPI to QuickSync.
This time it was an easy fix. But it was either an underlying issue with the way I set it up or a bug. Nonetheless it stopped working for no apparent reason.
How so? I have way less issues with jellyfin than I did with Plex. I think with jellyfin you just need to RTFM and find some plugins to expand the functionality if you need it
I spent hours trying to set up jellyfin to watch somewhere else in my home and despite doing all the guides I just couldn’t get it to work. Plex is just so much easier. It has hiccups and the new update is horrible (still holding out on updating) but it still works 9/10 times for me
I feel you on that. The first time I set it up, it me forever. I finally figured out the issue was it was not picking up the right IP address for my server. Once I fixed that, and knew to look for that in the future, no issues. I tore my whole server down last weekend, and transferred all the drives to a different setup, rebuilt the server and have everything working, logged back in on all my devices in an hour tops. Everyones milage will very though
I recently tested Jellyfin again and still miss a lot of features I like with Plex. I am a former Emby user and I don’t see why Jellyfin got so popular. I really want it to succeed, though
Jellyfin is 100% free and open-source, it may miss some features but nothing behind a paywall. We made the choice of open-source over features (I can understand people going with plex, but I’m happy with jf)
All good and if you are one of the contributors, you earn all the respect. By now, Emby will have a hard time to keep up with the development speed of Jellyfin. I just miss a few very important QoL features. I truly believe it is only a matter of time until they are added.
You have a login screen with all users showing with their profile picture. For a while now.
You can even make it look Netflix-like with Skin Manager plugin.
And there’s Quick Connect but it’s for people already connected on another device.
Right. I understand now, I’ve not used Netflix in 7 years. Yeah you have the user login screen before entering the password.
I guess there’s a workaround by autodeleting cookies but you’d have to re-enter the password (and it’s not doable easily by grandma)
And not secure.
I do have a reverse proxy strapped before my Jellyfin but if that is circumvented due to bad regex design, your only line of defense is a 4 digit password on a jellyfin user.
Welcome to Jellyfin friend
I’m so glad that I changed to Jellyfin. So much better.
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.
Jellyfin simply doesn’t work as well as Plex unfortunately.
In what way?
The apps don’t work well at all. If you’re just desktop based, its fine. But Nvidia Shield app, firestick app, mobile app, all have issues with hardware transcoding, and also somehow doesn’t handle subtitles properly. I have had both Plex and Jfin set up side by side multiple times, trying to test if I can make the swap. But JF just has too many bugs on their apps, which is what I use primarily, as do my users.
Sounds more like you had transcoding issues.
Using the Jellyfin Android app and the Android TV app on my Chromecast.
Besides .ssa subtitles I usually never need to transcode. And usually the transcoding reason is me using an incomptaible audio/video source (TrueHD audio and HDR)
Oh so it’s my fault somehow? Sorry but if I use the same library on Plex vs. JF and one works fine, the other doesn’t. That’s not my fault lol. It was set up to hardware transcode, and still didn’t work for many files. Plex did. Same with subtitles. I watched the same file with Plex and JF side by side. Same directory. Subtitles worked with Plex, all fucked up with JF. JF also crashed all the time on my Nvidia Shield.
Listen…
Some weeks ago I had trouble transcoding some anime files. Didnt really work amd had a low processing framerate using VAAPI. Switched to Intel hardware transcodig and suddenly it worked.
I don’t know your setup or when exactly you tried out JF, but theres absolutely no need to be offended.
I had intel hardware transcoding turned on for both JF and Plex. Many files did not work on JF. I am offended and annoyed because people keep telling me it’s my problem - when it’s not. It’s JF issues that are not solveable by me. I even went to the discord and talked to the devs, and they literally said “oh yea we don’t have tons of focus on the mobile apps unfortunately”, and acknowledged that my issue was a bug. Yet people continue to tell me “IT WORKS FOR ME SO YOU’RE DUMB.”
Listen…
I never said it’s a problem you caused.
I literally said that I had a working setup, which suddenly stopped working as expected and I solved it by switching the hardware acceleration setting from VAAPI to QuickSync.
This time it was an easy fix. But it was either an underlying issue with the way I set it up or a bug. Nonetheless it stopped working for no apparent reason.
Calm your nerves!
I have not seen that. It is always plex that does something stupid. Jellyfin is extremely reliable. Plex is particularly pissing me off lately.
Both hardware transcoding, same file, same server and there is Plex making me wait, wait, wait. While jellyfin is nearly click and go.
Well, I had the exact opposite experience. Strange.
How so? I have way less issues with jellyfin than I did with Plex. I think with jellyfin you just need to RTFM and find some plugins to expand the functionality if you need it
I spent hours trying to set up jellyfin to watch somewhere else in my home and despite doing all the guides I just couldn’t get it to work. Plex is just so much easier. It has hiccups and the new update is horrible (still holding out on updating) but it still works 9/10 times for me
I feel you on that. The first time I set it up, it me forever. I finally figured out the issue was it was not picking up the right IP address for my server. Once I fixed that, and knew to look for that in the future, no issues. I tore my whole server down last weekend, and transferred all the drives to a different setup, rebuilt the server and have everything working, logged back in on all my devices in an hour tops. Everyones milage will very though
Literally just the basics of choosing audio/subtitles/quality settings
Oh 🤷♂️ I guess I never have issues with that.
I bailed on Plex a while ago, went to Emby, now Jellyfin.
I forgot what happened to Emby, but I do recall some enshittification, and bounced. Jellyfin seems pretty solid.
Jellyfin forked from Emby when it went partially paywall.
I recently tested Jellyfin again and still miss a lot of features I like with Plex. I am a former Emby user and I don’t see why Jellyfin got so popular. I really want it to succeed, though
Jellyfin is 100% free and open-source, it may miss some features but nothing behind a paywall. We made the choice of open-source over features (I can understand people going with plex, but I’m happy with jf)
All good and if you are one of the contributors, you earn all the respect. By now, Emby will have a hard time to keep up with the development speed of Jellyfin. I just miss a few very important QoL features. I truly believe it is only a matter of time until they are added.
Like?
A Netflix-like login screen, where you can see all the users and they are just protected by a simple PIN.
You have a login screen with all users showing with their profile picture. For a while now. You can even make it look Netflix-like with Skin Manager plugin. And there’s Quick Connect but it’s for people already connected on another device.
But tbf it’s not on every login.
So it’s not really multi-user friendly.
Right. I understand now, I’ve not used Netflix in 7 years. Yeah you have the user login screen before entering the password. I guess there’s a workaround by autodeleting cookies but you’d have to re-enter the password (and it’s not doable easily by grandma)
And not secure.
I do have a reverse proxy strapped before my Jellyfin but if that is circumvented due to bad regex design, your only line of defense is a 4 digit password on a jellyfin user.
I have a server but it’s still a bit rough around the edges
Seriously, why are we still even mentioning Plex at this point?
Because it’s easier, in a lot of people’s experience better, and has more users. Why wouldn’t people mention it?