The open source alternative to my sponsor - Jellyfin vs Plex

Também tenho subscrição de vida no plex qual o problema de haver canais jogos? Quanto mais melhor....

JF been around for 4 or 5 years - and still cant group and display your media in folders as placed on the server.

Plex is slowly moving away from diy media servers, they’ve been slowly shoehorning in other ways to monetise over the years

I'm just curious what kind of blindspot Jupiter has. Where did you come up with that Saying? it's pretty stupid.

I'm actually trying Emby for the first time and I find it better when talking about transcoding options. One thing that's making me think of switching to Emby is the ability to not transcode the video output when the audio track has to be transcoded but the movie has subtitles. In this case Plex will transcode video to sync the text with the transcoded audio source to burn them in again, while Emby has a neat little option to extract subtitles on the fly that should prevent video transcoding. It does says that the playback could stall during the extraction process but so far I've never experienced any hiccup with a bunch of movies I tried. I'm not that much into other features Linus mentioned (like offline mode and intro skip) and I'm barely scratching the surface of what Emby can do, but I'll surely try jellyfin before buying an Emby license. One great thing about Emby though is that it has an app for every device you want

My dude—I preach often that when you support someone but know they’ve done something wrong—it’s okay to call them out. How easy would it have been for you to pretend like all was great and rainbows with Plex—but here you are being real, doing your thing, and being honest about other options. you just got another subscriber my guy

Here we are, almost a year later and Plex still hasn’t fixed anything. Their mobile download transcoding is still pretty much useless, unless your build optimized versions beforehand. The logic they use to determine how streams are transcoded for real-time playback is still absolute garbage. Their new “Plex” metadata engine can’t identify over 25% of my library and when I switch it back to the legacy engine so I can force it to use tmdb, it puts up a perpetual notification telling me to “upgrade” my library. When you delete media from your library, it still keeps all the metadata and sidecar files it created for that media, even after a “cleaning” cycle, wasting space. There’s almost no consistency between all their clients. A client for Android TV behaves differently than one for Android mobile, which behaves differently than one for iOS, which behaves differently for Roku, which behaves differently than one for Xbox, etc. And for some unexplainable reason, Plex still doesn’t fully support HEVC. It’s been YEARS and they still refuse to adopt it. Plex does everything it does just OK but does none of it great.

@plex it’s been over 2 years

What about using Plex as a back-end and Kodi as a front-end?

I switched from Plex to EMBY for 3 months, then switched back to Plex. EMBY isn’t ready for prime time yet, trust me!

Dumped plex years ago, got totally sick of having to have server side solutions and dependency on NAS / plex CPU, not to mention some pripriatry Auduo codecs just not working right and dealing with poor quality end units and remotes. Infuse + AppleTV is the way to go it just works... syncs across multiple units with Trakt sharing, and media offline download to iphone/ipad etc.... Started out with XBMC back in the day and have used a LOT of stuff in between, cant go past infuse.

transcoded download works fine, shrek was found immediately, there are now over 10 different ratings on age, herkules works fine

Been a Emby user for 5y+ well worth the money. (I also have Plex lifetime but keep coming back to Emby). Great native android and LG WebOS apps.

InFuse for the win

Enshitification! I love when companies forget the problem they solved in the face of investors.

I've run into missing audio issues before, which were almost always solved by just a repackaging of the original content with MKVToolNix, whether the original was MP4, AVI, or MKV. I've never figured out what the issue was exactly, as the file data and the tracks appear the same, but regardless the original file has some sort of error or unexpected attribute that causes the audio playback to fail, and remuxing the file sorted the issue.

I've had similar issues with video not streaming correctly, including being presented by PLEX Roku app with the wrong resolution. But a quick MKVToolNix remux and bam, problem solved.

I switched to jellyfin. Better.

I had problems with plex in the past, now using Jellyfin for a year now. Even got Hardware decoding working on Fedora, just add the correct copr repo. Subtitles are downloaded automatically . Works great.

Can Plex be used without an active internet connection, like Jellyfin can? The entire point is being able to still watch something on my smart TVs when the internet goes down.