I have setup Jellyfin as a docker container and will bind-volume the same locations as Plex, but I was interested in anyone’s perspective having made the switch in the last year or so.
What are some things you miss, what are issues/benefits you hadn’t expected?
I really don’t miss a single thing about Plex. In fact I switched because I was constantly getting playback bugs with Plex where I was getting no video stream. Jellyfin has been a lot more reliable.
How’s the offline experience?
Last time I checked something big was missing, I can’t remember what though.
I’ll restart my homelab in a month and I have already chosen Jellyfin but I’m still curious about what to expect.
Absolutely flawless. I haven’t got a single complaint.
From my migration experience Plex seems to be a bit more forgiving if you don’t already have a fully organized media library complete with correct metadata, especially for large music libraries.
Also there is no Rasplex, i.e if you want a standalone Jellyfin client device for your TV you have to go through Kodi, there’s no fire-and-forget finished image.
Jellyfin also doesn’t seamlessly play movie files that have been split into parts, so I’ve had to do some manual ffmpeg concatenations to get many of my movies ready for it.
Then there is Plexamp, of course, which is still superior to Finamp in terms of features.
I’m still dual-wielding Plex and Jellyfin. Plex for sharing, Jellyfin mostly for me. What I miss: Skip intro, skip outtro, PMM, Tautulli, Overseer (looks like Jellyseer can cover it, but while I wait for others I might as well wait for the main repo to support Jellyfin), the interface is pretty old-school but their new VueJS (IIRC) interface looks like it’ll solve that issue. Nowits’s just about waiting for it to become the primary interface in apps.
Benefit: No more defaulting to 720p 3mbps! That shit is outdated as fuck in 2023…
I’m also dual wielding. I think the only thing really keeping me on plex is there doesn’t seem to be a straight forward way to set up a tv tuner.
Am I using plex wrong? Where the hell is there a skip intro??
Jellyfin has skip intro. Let me know if you wanna know how to set it up
I’ll be watching the thread. Been thinking about this too since Plex laid some people off
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I tried Symfonium and paid for it, but the Google Play unlock took my money and didn’t unlock it, I emailed the developer and had such a bad reaction I had to report him to Google who said they were considering taking down his account. I have the screenshots of I choose to make a post in the future. But I won’t be using Symfonium in the future.
I have started using AudioBookShelf for audiobooks & podcasts and it’s been really good.
I like jellyfin on desktop, but the TV app isn’t great, that being said the streaming is much better than Plex but I didn’t try transcode.
I avoid anime specifically because of the dropped plugin support so Jellyfin might need to come in just for that.
Komga is what I use for Comics.
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The UI on both the NVidia Shield TV and LG webOS apps is much, much snappier for one. There was always a bit of lag navigating the Plex UI.
I have had some issues with subtitles though; Watching a series and going to the next episode, the selected subtitles language won’t persist, and trying to pick the subtitles doesn’t work without backing out of the episode, starting playback again and picking the subs.
Also, Plex had the builtin subtitle search feature which Jellyfin doesn’t have. There’s a plugin, but it doesn’t seem like you can use it on the TV app, only on the web UI.
Still, even with these sharp edges, using Jellyfin feels much nicer and cleaner, as I really wasn’t feeling the commercial / forced account creation / data collection / ads aspect of Plex.
Subtitles had been my main issue with Jellyfin.
I don’t personally care, but my wife is all about the subtitles so that makes it a big issue for me!
For the language, I went in and set it for my user for the subtitles and audio.
I also have bazaar setup to clean up the subtitles.
Bazaarr is a good tip and I’ll look in to that, thank you. I’ve found Jellyfin’s external subtitle plugin to be hit and miss.
I used to have subtitle management issues, but now I use mkv files so that I can include the original subtitles from my discs. You can use settings in Handbrake to control size and quality. This doesn’t help of course if you aren’t using discs…
