• Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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    14 days ago

    This might be a good time to remind everyone that Jellyfin is open source, free (as in beer) and is, at this point, a better media streamer than Plex. No fees, no ads, no constant pushing of their streaming content, and still has the watch together feature that Plex went and removed.

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      TBH Plex is years ahead on maturity, their dev team is excellent, unfortunately it seems like enshittification has begun for them.

      Support Jellyfin not because it’s better, but because it’s open source and it puts users and tech first. Don’t expect it to beat Plex’s performance, quality, or cross-platform availability yet, but expect it to become better as more people donate or get involved.

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        What’s better, exactly?

        I switched years ago from Plex to Jellyfin, and while the UI wasn’t quite as nice, everything else is better.
        And I don’t have to pay to use HW transcoding on my own hardware…

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          Honestly, I don’t really understand how people prefer the Plex UI to Jellyfin. No shade, it just doesn’t make sense to me. Plex is incredibly cluttered and busy. Jellyfin is simple and clean. I like the latter a lot more.

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            13 days ago

            There’s ‘finamp’ for jellyfin which I really like so far.

            I haven’t used plexamp though, so I can’t vouch for it as an alternative.

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              For Android users there’s Symfonium which I find really great

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          The reason I’m not switching yet, is that there’s no federated auth. If they had that, I’d switch in a heartbeat.

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            14 days ago

            Simple auth was honestly one of the upsides for me.

            Plex claims to have an offline mode, but I could never got it to work, for some reason.
            And I got pissed off one too many times when my Internet went down and I couldn’t watch anything from the NAS a few meters away…

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            14 days ago

            Same here. I have it installed, but I’m resistant to managing other people’s passwords.

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              I had that problem when i first started using jellyfin- I would have to give my users some sort of default login which I couldn’t trust them to actually go and change within jellyfin. And then when someone forgot their password, they’d have to ask me to manually reset their password, and until then they couldn’t use their account.

              My solution was to use the jellyfin LDAP auth plugin with an lldap docker container, so once I set up my users’ accounts, they have to do the password reset process themselves to initially set their password, and the only info I need from them is their preferred username and email address. Makes sure they’re familiar with the password reset process as well, and now if I get any questions/support requests related to passwords, I can simply direct them to the lldap password reset page.

              It also makes it much easier to offer extra services such as mastodon and NextCloud which support LDAP, so users can manage their logins on all platforms from a central place.

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        Its weird how people complain more with the current state of plex compared to if they just required a plex pass for everything.

        My ONLY complaints are that they have new features enabled by default, and that it doesn’t work well if the internet breaks

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      The is just better rhetoric gets a bit frustrating tbh, it’s a great bit of software do not get me wrong, but sure still has a lot of issues with more exotic codecs and various colour space conversions. Among some other tech issues

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        There are 2 types of “free”. Liberty, and price. “Free as in beer” means they mean the price version of the word. It’s a really old saying now.

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          Isn’t this confusing, though? It’s free, as in libre (open-source AND costs no money). “As in beer” implies some sort of restriction.