I have only used Plex very briefly before I moved to try Emby then Jellyfin. Granted I am not a heavy user of a media server - basically no one else in my household uses it, and I don’t have a lot of content, but I do use sonarr / radarr with it.

The moment Plex put me off was when I realized a Plex Pass was needed to add transcoding capability. What are some of the reasons people like Plex better than Jellyfin, other than those who have been using Plex forever and are just too lazy to explore other options?

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[–] Swimmerman96 4 points 1 year ago

I personally haveb't used Plex, but one feature they have that I've heard is hard to give up is automatic intro and credit skipping.

[–] Vittelius@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

External access is much easier to get with Plex. Not everyone can setup a reverse proxy and the process gets even harder when your ISP assigns you a new public IP address every 24 hours (like mine does)

[–] seemebreakthis@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I think this would be one of the areas where Plex has an advantage over Jellyfin. Thanks for letting me know.

I managed to set my Jellyfin server up behind a reverse proxy, but yes that took a while to do.

[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

We started with Plex because the Jellyfin desktop client did not play nice with the remote that I have. I switched to Jellyfin when I set up an Android TV client, and I chose Jellyfin because of the immediate access to hardware transcoding and use on mobile devices.

But honestly, I prefer Plex's UI (though sometimes it stutters), on the spot downloading of subtitles, and subtitle offset features. But as I start to update our library with more 4k titles, hardware transcoding is clutch.

[–] jalim@jalim.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Plex has a client app on just about every single media player out there and they have a simple single sign on solution.

So I personally run both Plex and Jellyfin, Jellyfin for myself as I’m willing to put up with some of the hoops I have to jump through and Plex for everyone else who just gets an invite email, creates an account and suddenly has access to all of my content on every single device they own.

Once jellyfin has reliable apps on every App Store and a simple way of getting non-tech savvy users onboarded I’ll move everyone over to jellyfin. Until then, it’s just for me.

[–] ReclamationCrafts@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

There doesn’t seem to be a straight forward way to set up a tv tuner.

[–] tan 1 points 1 year ago

I use plex pretty much exclusively for Plex HTPC. Neither of the Jellyfin alternatives to it meet my needs from a usability and customizability perspective. Jellyfin MPV Shim comes close, but for some reason it constantly resets the subtitle and audio tracks I have selected for future episodes.