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- Plex pass price increase (6.99/mo, 69.99/yr)
- Non-LAN streaming from a personal Plex server will require either server owner or user to have Plex pass or the new “remote watch” subscription tier
- No more $5 mobile unlock fee to watch in the mobile app, but now there will be a $2/mo “remote watch” subscription tier that unlocks remote streaming mentioned above
I’m glad this won’t affect Plex pass (lifetime for over a decade in my case) users who are sharing their server with non-paying friends, but I also hope this entices more development in Jellyfin. If Plex decided to make it so that my non-paying friends can’t stream easily from my paid for Plex server, I need jellyfin to be a good alternative, and it currently doesn’t appeal to any of the friends I share with so something like that would probably get my friends to switch back to paid streaming.
Jellyfin took a little setup, but it works great for me. Down side is I don’t currently know of a good way to access the media from outside my network. Maybe a RTFM issue I haven’t dealt with yet since I run both.
I just set up traefik for both Plex and jellyfin - the config is almost identical. Unfortunately none of my friends choose to use Jellyfin, probably because the official apps don’t look as nice. I would use it but certain files just don’t play for some reason and I haven’t had the time to investigate. Plus I’m still waiting for Findroid on android TV to be in a working state.
You mention about 3 different issues, but files not playing is definitely a config/file issue, not a Jellyfin issue. I’ve thrown at it pretty much any standard format and it plays it fine. Any specific format and/or codec you’re trying to play? For instance AV1 files play just fine on Jellyfin, but if the hardware doesn’t support hardware decoding (which is the case foe my Nvidia Shield) it won’t play well at all.
Regarding Jellyfin’s themes, not saying no to some improvements, but what stops you(or others) from using it?
I personally use Jellyfin for multiple hours a day (as do friends and family, with zero complaints), almost every day and it plays my media on literally any platform (including remotely), but I don’t find myself looking at Jellyfin per se for any large amount of that time - It’s easy to navigate which from a UX perspective generally trumps looks when it comes to these things. I like how it looks as it’s functional and easy to get to the media you want whilst showing all the nice metadata (images, sinopses, etc). What’s missing?
Nothing is missing per se, but mysteriously 100% of my friends prefer the Plex UI. I’d have to ask them why. I find the jellyfin UI a little bare but serviceable, my only real complaint is the mysterious transcoder errors.
And I’m sure it is just a misconfiguration! The problem is I hardly changed any settings from stock, aside from enabling hardware transcoding for Intel quick sync. I have an Intel Nuc10i7FNK that has a comet lake i7-10710U so based on the table on Wikipedia which lists which generations of quick sync support what codecs, I set Jellyfin’s hardware acceleration to QSV with QSV device set to blank (it works and I can see the activity using the Intel quick sync top command - I forget what the command is but I verified it when I set it up so it seems it’s auto detecting it fine), and enabled H264, HEVC, Mpeg2, VC1, VP8, VP9, HEVC 10bit, and VP9 10 bit. Leaving 12 bit and all of AV1 deselected which seems to match what isn’t available for decode according to the Wikipedia article. I left low power HW encoder off and enabled VPP with gain 28 and contrast gain 1, regular tone mapping disabled, tone mapping algorithm the default of bt.2390 and all the other settings left on default.
I know jellyfin is working on auto detecting the hardware acceleration settings so I don’t hold it against them at all. I should also mention that the file that wouldn’t play before plays fine now, so it doesn’t seem like there’s a specific file that causes issues but an intermittent issue that causes transcoder errors. The file that wouldn’t play before is just 8bit HEVC with aac2.0 and English srt subs.
I welcome any tips you have - one issue I have when looking for help with Jellyfin is that people see users asking for help as a challenge to “prove them wrong”, which is frustrating (and ironically sometimes how people approach proselytizing the fediverse). I genuinely want Jellyfin to be good and to use it, which is why I keep an updated jellyfin container running along side my Plex container, I have basically every jellyfin app installed on all my devices so I can keep up with their development, and I donate to developers of those apps even though they aren’t complete enough to use in the case of Findroid. I would have already opened an issue for jellyfin web if it was easy to reproduce, but like I said I haven’t had much time to troubleshoot between job and working on the arrstack so this is all the details I have right now.
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Incredibly concerning. I’ve been using Plex for years due to its ease of use but I’ll definitely be spinning up a Jellyfin instance and seeing if I can get the same/similar functionality from it.
Because I know at least one person will comment about how great Jellyfin is; do you know whether there’s a WebOS client for Jellyfin?
Yes, I use jellyfin on an oldish LG TV with jellyfin app on webos.
Lovely! Thanks for your help.
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Been using Jellyfin to share media with family and friends, locally and remotely, for a couple years. Very happy and can recommend.
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Is your PS5 on the same network?
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