I’ve used Plex premium for several years now and generally don’t have many complaints. I know there have been some causes of concern every now and again, but they haven’t really been an issue for me personally.
That said, Jellyfin is something I’ve been watching and I’d be curious how people feel it compares.
I just made the switch from Plex a few weeks ago. Overall, I like the UI of Jellyfin better and haven’t had any difficulty playing media that I played on Plex. Once MFA and offline sync are added to Jellyfin, I won’t miss Plex at all.
I just want something to play my local media, not discovery of services and junk I don’t want.
Jellyfin is a great change from Plex for this.
I used Plex for a long time, switched to Jellyfin a few years ago. If it's not equally as good it's better.
I have also had a lot less trouble with containerizing it and settings being reloaded after a rebuild but that may just be me.
Cool thing is you can run them side-by-side if you wanted to dip your toes and check the waters.
Right? People are acting like it's an either/or, but all Plex and Jellyfin really do is read files in a directory. I'd be surprised if the directory naming convention and structure were remarkably different.
Yeah they’re not. I point both at the same media folders no problem.
I have been opening Plex very little lately.
That’s a good point. Our media server is just a raspberry pi, so I haven't wanted to push it too hard.
Plex still wins on client compatibility, ease of server & client setup, and at least has the 3 commonly used oidc login providers available.
Jellyfin you may need to point external clients to your server manually as well as setup everything so they can actually connect. There are so many ways to do this that it can be paralyzing to actually decide which to try as a beginner. Local clients can usually use discovery if the firewall and container are setup correctly for the jellyfin server. Accounts have to be created manually unless you use something like jfa-go. For oidc, there's only 3rd party plugin in alpha state and looks like people use it so guess it works well enough.
As others have said, you can have both running on the same system pointed at the same content. If you're following the plex naming scheme should match pretty well in jellyfin, nfo files work really well for jellyfin metadata too. Lets you get an idea of it and whether it could meet your needs.
I mostly switched to Jellyfin over 3 years ago, shutdown my plex server 2 years ago after many tiny annoyances over the years. I had tried to get my family switched over but it is too much hassle for them and myself still. Been working on setting up some cheap htpc's for that purpose but it's not a priority for me.
I use it with GoogleTV, works well!
Oh awesome, I recently switched my bedroom tv to a roku and have not been enjoying it, this seems like a major improvement.
I moved my shield tv to the living room for surround sound reasons
Can't wait to try it, especially the user selection screen.
Thank you jellyfin team!
Not regretting buying the Roku Ultra a few weeks ago 😎
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