I’ve got Jellyfin up and running right now on a DS620Slim NAS and it’s running pretty good so far. I’ve seen a lot of people say they prefer Plex over Jellyfin. What are the main advantages to plex?

  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    641·
    1 year ago

    Jellyfin:

    • Free
    • Gets the job done
    • Not in financial trouble
    • No layoffs
    • Not trying to sell you stuff
    • Not selling your watch habbits
    • Mainly develops features people want

    Plex (paid):

    • Decade of development with pretty solid pay features
    • Easy sharing with friends and remote watching
    • Decent clients for almost every device and more solid transcoding
    • Fairly quick fixes for problems
    • Great intro/credit/commercial skipping
    • Only develops features that might make money
    • In the middle of layoffs
    • Centralized authentication makes is impossible to watch if offline or they’re offline unless you removed local authentication before it went offline.
    • They sell your viewing habbits

    Plex is super convenient and slimy

    Jellyfin is pure and behind on features, clients and comforts.

    • Fisch@lemmy.mlEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      You can get intro skipping for Jellyfin too with a plugin. It even works with Findroid, which is a native Android app for Jellyfin. I’ve been using it for a while now (maybe a month or so) and it’s always worked perfectly.

    • HomelessCanadian@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Seems like I’ll continue to stick with Jellyfin because of the offline access. My internet is very spotty where I live so it seems to be the best option.

    • snor10@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Great list of comparison!

      Worth noting that Jellyfin is not only free as in beer (if you selfhost), but also free as in Freedom i.e. open source.