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My dream solutionwould be to have Jellyfin (or plex) on a smart stick in my tv with the ability to watch youtube with an adblocker. Do you know if such Smart Tv Stick exists? Cheers
I started to dislike Plex when they started to get pushy with their own content years ago. I currently use Emby, but Jellyfin would be my second best choice.
I have both pulling from the same library. Prefer Jellyfin and use it at home, but run Plex for remote access after several failed sessions of trying to get Jellyfin working via caddy or similar
You can exempt your LAN devices from requiring Plex external authentication to access your server (Internet down, no worries Plex still works for you, and your kids are happy!). It's right there in Network settings, at the bottom! Always amazed that Toobers that talk about/review Plex don't know about it! Right up there with tnot knowing about the NAS installer packages and that plugins don't exist anymore (probably because they never updated their server!).
Out of curiosity, why use a VPN at all if it's a small private Jellyfin server? I'm legitimately wondering. I leave mine exposed to the open web. Should I not be doing that?
I use Jellyfin with Kodi. Jellyfin as central progress and metadata library and Kodi as a player on my devices. Kodi has support for all the media standards and a very powerful interface, addons and general player. This has been the perfect setup for me at home and on the go. Kodi can also download videos and sync progress back once you have internet/connection to Jellyfin again.
So for your in-home streaming, are you using Kodi on your TV or still the Jellyfin app? Looking on my LG TV, it appears my only option is Jellyfin. I'm starting from square one learning how to set up a basic home streaming server (streaming in-home only for my case) and still trying to figure out which direction I want to go streamer-wise. Only progress I've made so far is deciding not to go with Plex 😂
@NordicDan I use kodi. I'd recommend an external player anyway. Have to yet find a TV that doesn't suck software wise. Usually, performance is just bad. If you want to stream high bitrate remuxes, you will need ethernet anyway. WiFi won't allow that consistently. I am using a Nvidia Shield. But FireTV also works alongside a USB splitter (to have power and ethernet adapter).
One of the things we do with Plex. We're fans of an NFL team in another state. To get around the high cost of NFL Sunday Ticket, I set up a small NAS, HDHomerun and TV Antenna at a location in that state. It's worked great for years.
Personally, I prefer Plex due to the fact that they have apps for literally any platform without any weird hacks or third-party ones but recently plex has been going downhill so I might run both and see how they stack up. TLDW powered by the youtube transcript and chatgpt: The person prefers Jellyfin. They mention in the transcript that they have multiple years of experience with both platforms, but they personally prefer and love Jellyfin. However, they also mention that they are currently using Plex on a daily basis, possibly for some specific reasons like client-side applications and external sharing convenience. But overall, their preference and love seem to be for Jellyfin, which is a free and open-source media server platform.
Good video all around. When my Plex server crashed and had to rebuild it form scratch, I first tried out Emby and Jellyfin. I was like 90% there on both of them, but couldn't figure out remote watching on both. It's just WAY easier on Plex. Gave up on both and went back to Plex. Bought the lifetime pass on one of those sales for that price, well worth it.
watch a tutorial for cloudflare tunnel. its free and absolutely easy to set up for everyone. there is also still free domain-services out there to point to.
they say depending on where you live, it's very much worth buying the license during a casual trip to countries like turkey (inspecting the physical server locations of your favorite vpn provider, ofc 😁). it sold "there" for 70€ iirc, and i heard if you're a bit tedious with your "traveling", you can find even cheaper prices.
Run both I have all of the kid friendly libraries on Jellyfin because of the access issues when service provider is down. I scale down the videos to helps with traffic. Plex is great for traveling with a few gsm unlocked tablets. Most countries have prepaid services. 😂😂I travel a lot and always get a sim if I’m staying more than a few weeks
Thank you for the video. The one thing this video, as well as others, seem to neglect is comparing the recording and playing of over-the-air and cable TV shows. Plex often misses a recording of mine and I would be interested to hear how people have found Jellyfin in that regard. It's been hard getting info on Jellyfin's capability and reliability in that department.
@@TechHut I have an HDHomerun Connect 4K that the Plex (and now Jellyfin as well) servers use. Like u mentioned in your video, if the internet goes out, Plex doesn't work (probably because it can't, "phone home"). HDHomerun has an app one can use, but it's super basic, no DVR, unless u pay. As @buckeyemarksman mentioned, you can use Channels DVR app as well, but don't know much about it. Had been trying to keep things simple, but that went out the window once I began trying to gain more privacy in my tech use. That's why I'm hoping to get the Jellyfin TV part working more consistently. But since I can't program, I'm unable to participate in its advancement & help the process go faster. :(
I used Plex a while back between 2017-2019; then just started using streaming services more. Now with prices I'm back up and running with jellyfin for a solid few months now. 12 users total. Friends and family. Maxed out about 7 streams on my upstream with no issues. Compliments well with Jellyseer too. My biggest gripe is lack of support for other clients. On Jellyfin media player or web it works great. All the neat features I got working load fine. But for majority of clients its bare minimum. No good skins, layout is buggy if I change anything with CSS. Background trailers, intro music etc.. Its fine for the most part. But I do want have something as close to Netflix but self hosted. A man can dream. Still way better than plex in my opinion. I have a lot more control.
From a 10 foot interface Plex doesn't let you browse your own media without clicking 6-7 times on the remote to get to it, which never used to be the case.. now with them trying to push their own stuff it's really gone down hill. Wish Jellyfin had better clients. Plex interface and controls on tablets is a lot better.
The feature i really want for jellyfin on androidTV is to be able to browse through your library by the year/decade. You can browse by genres and letters, but not by the years. That sucks.
@@tomv3999 I have hundreds of custom posters, backgrounds, collections, and manually set ratings so older "not rated" kids movies show up in their profile. Then I need to setup a reverse proxy and tell my parents and sister how to connect to Jellyfin (over the phone) and get their accounts setup too. On top of that, I need to figure out how to get HDR and tone mapping working in the browser with Jellyfin. Lastly, I need to figure out how to get anime setup properly. It's near impossible in Plex, and I'm still working on it. Jellyfin makes it much easier, but I still need to research how. I dunno how any of this is easy.
Plex requires an in-app purchase to activate their mobile app. Plex also kind of forces you to purchase their Plex Pass subscription if you're going to activate their app on multiple devices. Plex also limits remote streaming to 720p. Plex doesn't have local accounts. Jellyfin all the way. -from a former Plex user
Jellyfin has so much potential but the clients still need improvement. Currently using Emby but I still keep up with the development of Jellyfin, specifically their iOS and tvOS clients.
why no love for Emby ? i have used all three (am using both Emby and Plex for many years now) and personally I prefer Emby sufficiently over Plex to have pulled the trigger on the lifetime licence. Visually, Emby is way ahead of Plex. One might argue that the main purpose of any Media Browser worth its salt is to be unobtrusive when i am actually consuming my media. In the same way that any good OS should be competent, but not intrusive (Linux Yes, Windows absolutely NOT). But the presentation of the media for my perusal and the enjoyment of the metadata whilst browsing my media, is simply way way prettier with Emby (IMO). And Jellyfin in comparison (being a fork of Emby) just feels less refined, less complete and less featured than Emby. Emby wins out for me, Jellyfin second and i would run it if i was not already running Emby, and Plex in third place
Tried both Plex and Jellyfin. I preferred Jellyfin but missed certain features that Plex had. I moved to Emby, which I wished I had done a long time ago, so much better than both Plex and Jellyfin and has clients that work flawlessly on virtually any device.
Why use docker? Is it important? Thanks for telling about the Internet down problem. I don't understand why offline content needs internet when it's transferring over wifi.
I use plex on my NAS and TV because my Samsung TV has the Plex app built in. But it doesn't have Jellyfin. So, how do you use Jellyfin to watch movies ? For most viewing, I find that with a well organized library, just using DLNA works fine. Thanks for the video though. I know a lot more now than before.
so far i will stick with plex because of 3 main features: a client for every device without having to side load an app, transcoded downloading and Truenas support. But if they can get AV1 encoding, transcoded downloading and a client for Tizen i would jump to it.
What is an optimal app to use on a Firestick for using Jellyfin? When I search Jellyfin everyone says it's just a media server. Not like Plex that has the Server and the App/media player to use?
I have a FireTV, which is basically just a TV with a built-in Firestick. I just ran a search and downloaded the app available and it works great, especially since upgrading my server to v10.9.7
I want to like Jellyfin, but firstly I have to manually install on my QNAP NAS whilst Plex is in the App store. Now that is not enough for me not use it but the other two issues are the dealbreaker.I use it solely for my large music collection and this is where it loses out. Firstly, it doesn't catalogue my collection properly whilst Plex does everything from the music tags on the files. But the biggest difference is speed in use...Jellyfin takes ages switching between directories or between categories whilst Plex is instant.
Plexamp is the only reason i would stay with Plex, bc I use my server heavily for music. Is there anything on Android with similar functionally for Jellyfin?
What affordable cloud storage works as a plex media server for streaming? I'm always on the road and setting up a stationary server isn't a option for my lifestyle. I'm always on the road due to work. Please any feedback would be appreciated
I jumped into Plex almost 5 years ago now and I loved it but they are getting pushy with their stuff and constantly wanting me to review movies that we have watched on our own server which is super annoying. I may give something else a look now and see how it works compared to Plex but we do like Plex and I have the lifelong subscription which gives us the ability to watch our own stuff when we are away which is great.
You can watch a movie on your Plex and it will ask you to review it. I use Live TV and watch stuff on it and that is when you will see it. @@Saturn2888
Is your bias more based off the fact you have paid for Plex? I Do understand Jellyfin is a little less "refined" but it seems to be pretty good for free
There is always bias. I used Jellyfin first, but I wanted to try out the Plex Home thing when I purchased it. It wouldn't take much of a push for me to switch back to Jellyfin full time.
@Don_Coyote That's the fun thing about open source projects. They generally have a lot of the community actively pushing their own fixes and improvements into the project itself. Even if the project ever got shutdown and archived. A fork would be up within a day and have pulled most of the developers over to still work on it. Especially when it comes to us nerds and our media consumption. I highly doubt this will ever "not work one day".
@Don_Coyote Well I mean, you kinda already seem set in your ways so there's no point me trying to question your reasons why. In this video's case, Plex vs Jellyfin. I'd say Plex has got more downfall than Jellyfin has with how they can push content on a self hosted project, charging for hardware encoding, offline watching not working, etc etc. Amongst other things. If anything, what you said seems to aim more at Plex than Jellyfin. Not sure what 50 half working projects you're on about but can't say I have that issue. If something isn't working, use something else. If you have the experience, fix it yourself. Simple as that really. Plus if you feel that way. Just stop using open source projects and pay for everything.
Do you have a guide on how to setup plex/jellyfin and hardware transcoding for docker plex/jellyfin container on proxmox? I already have it setup to GPU passthrough from your guide for that and Windows 11.
I wish you would have talked about this but I hear that jellyfin handles live TV a lot better than Plex because you're able to share it to all users that you give the ability to have access into your home server. Plex only allows you to share live TV to your home accounts.
I have both installed on my Asustor NAS. I prefer Jellyfin purely because Plex seems to be accessing the NAS drives almost continuously, as if it is always scanning the folders for new content, and there is no settings to stop this. As soon as I disable Plex on the NAS the drive activity drops by 90% over the course of a day. I don't know if this is a bug in the version of PLex that Asustor uses (android .apk). I have tried updating it, uninstalling and reinstalling but this always happens.
You can stop this by changing how often Plex looks for updates to the library. I have mine set to once per day and I don't have the same problem at all however, if I add something I plan to watch soon, I manually scan the library where I put the new movie and it works great.
My internet goes out at times, you can fix Plex to still work without internet Authentication for local network access by adding the local IP's or range
I have a 4.3" waveshare touchscreen, Pi4 and DAC. I hate music streaming because sooner or later you lose signal when you need it. Can you recommend something free that functions as a player for a small touchscreen?
Thanks for the video. Do you use Plex or Jellyfin for recording live TV? I do like Plex but if I could get that feature for free with Jellyfin, that might be worth it for me to switch. I'd like to record local sports and let my family watch from a different area.
I've tried jellyfin and for some reason my GPU goes to 100% all the time while I'm streaming and changing subtitles takes forever. On Plex I don't have neither of those problems. ps: I have a RTX 3060.
are your films side loaded ? or did you have to actually copy them in from your personal dads. is this what is needed to host my media. and game ? I also want to host my websites and client websites on my own server can this all be one ?
HW transcoding is random on plex and seems sluggish as it freezes at times or doesn't use HW at all. Wondering if Jelly is a better solution for overall performance.
I love my plex setup. But I have a server with a lot of ram and and processors, I'll run another VM w/ jellyfin, this looks cool. I just found an app on my smart tv for jellyfin so my friends and family can use it too. To them they'll probably wonder why the hell I'm making them use another app for the same library, but I just want to see it work.
For me, i go with plex. Not only editing movies and adding library is easy, it has all the movies without adding libraries, the only con with plex is the pass. Jellyfin is… alright, its just has complicated editing. So i go with plex. Pls dont hate me
Its only going to be a matter of time with Plex's content provider relationships before they start reporting or banning people for sharing media outside their household which is why they want you to authenticate on their cloud platform and not locally like Jellyfin. I've always been very suspicious of my data being stored in the PLEX cloud and what they can see like my media library, who is watching it etc... and I believe it will only take a major studio to lean on them before they starting sending out cease and desist letters and start pulling back on their core offering of a local media streaming platform.
I have a server, running UNRAID, Intel 14900 14th gen, z790 AORUS Master X, 2 sticks 94gb DDR5 5600mhz ram, 2tb NVME cache. I have Plex Pass, I have audio going off and on that I would forward and rewind a bit for the audio to come back, also towards the end of the video, the video would stop playing, this only happens towards the end of the show. I've encoded the videos in h265 with ACC audio, and it still happens. I've also messed with Plex settings. the issue still persists. I've even encoded the video to AV1 with ACC audio and still persist. Looked online, and a lot of people are having these issues with Plex.
had plex for a few years now hopped on over to jellyfin for about a year or 2. my previous NAS had only 2 HDD's and with plex i noticed even if the NAS has nothing to do plex keeps doing stuff preventing the drives from ever going to sleep. with jellyfin once it's done the nas actually starts to idle and even sleep if it's got nothing to do. (yea NAS HDD's don't need to sleep...might even be better if it doesn't but spending 24 hours a day doing something or spending 18 hours sleeping i feel better about it actually gooing to sleep when it has nothing to do, now i have the OS and docker containers running of a volume on a SSD and have only my media/backup's on the HDD's so those are off/sleeping unless i'm actually watching a show. also the plex app for my TV's OS was junk, the plex app on android TV at the time kept having issue's, and i bought a new tv (cheap one but with the intent to run app's natively) and later a google chromecast with android tv so i didn't have to use my damn phone to cast plex to my tv as that app did work well >.> jellyfin might have less app's but so far...it has worked better :P
Been using Jellyfin for the past year. But the recent update the chimps broke it as all my content stutters. Do they even test these updates before forcing them onto people 🙄. It would be nice to find something that just works!
Great video. When my home server is back up, I plan on trying out both. I've been using Plex for a long time and apps are available for everything. I am not sure if my other TVs have an app. My cousin has shared his collection with me and my network is double NATed and plex really hates it (as far as I can tell). I share my collection with my parents and sister and they don't have plexpass. My parents just got internet at their house so setting up Jellyfin locally might still be better. I've been looking to replace my plexamp as I listen to a lot of audiobooks and want to share them with above family members. Does jellyfin allow for things like downloading subtitles? 4 or 5 years ago, when I was shifting my collection from DVD/BR, I didn't always rip the sibtitles. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon without subtitles is fun. Plexpass let me download subtitles.
If jellyfin can get their client side thing together, I'd be more incline to switch to it. But for now its Plex all the way. Running both of them with jellyfin being for home and plex being for mobile is too much, and I would much rather have a single solution.
!! Exclaimer for people using Samsung TV with its Tizen OS - It does NOT support Jellyfin or Emby clients, and you are basically forced to use PLEX as your only option. Sure, you could use some dongle instead, like Chromecast or whatever else, but come on... This was the deciding factor that made me choose PLEX over other servers. Otherwise, I'd go with Jellyfin that has one option in particular that other media servers do not - ability to change position of the subtitles on the screen, which is a huge bummer for me while using PLEX where you're limited to three basic settings - top, middle and bottom, and bottom means the very bottom of the screen instead of the bottom of the video frame, which I'd prefer.
What did you smoke, you have Jellyfin for Tizen officially maintained by the team, the only caveat is that you have to side load the app yourself. Do your research first before you post crap like this.
I tried jellyfin on my samsung tv this week and it takes forever to start play any 4k movies. Also to skip scenes. So its not usable dont even bother. Plex is instant. Emby works too
Do you use 4k uhd files with these? I have been using Kodi and I find I get lots of stutter. Yesterday I tried plex with a 4k file and it seemed to run great. I tried Jellyfin today and it seems to have some stutter, you get any of that. Anyway to fix it in Jellyfin?
I am staying with Plex. Jellyfish is to complicated. Have to install to many extra things to get it work on my nas. While Plex isn't perfect it working well for me.
Do you have port forwarding enabled on your router? When you’re internet goes out I think that not having port forwarding on your router might be causing the inability to use Plex during an internet outage.
Plex is my legacy system, my Samsung TV doesn't support Jellyfin and is also EOL-ing support for a few apps. Bye bye Samsung, never again. Plex on Android costs ££, Jellyfin works just fine. I run a VPN on my router, so no firewall setup either. Fortunately installing both servers on my NAS was easy, and I have no problem having both sharing the same library. As for my tv, when Samsung undermine the software too far then I'll just get an HDMI dongle. I'm not replacing perfectly working hardware just because a company has decided I've owned it too long.
Pleased that you are happy with media identification on both platforms. Frankly I found Jellyfin to be worse than Plex for media identification. Plex is bad at it but Jellyfin was even worse when I tried it. Both require hours of work to correct errors. Yes the media is correctly labelled according to advice, so I'm afraid there is no excuse, both are disappointing in their media identification. BTW none of the media is obscure. Music is the worst. Multimillion selling music that requires my intervention to correctly identify the thumbnails. Disappointing.
Can either PLEX or Jellyfin stream via Interet. Lets say I'm an another country where my server is can I stream my personal photos and videos on my home server?
Do either of these have a random play feature? I want to rip the movies and shows and have them queue up at random. Too many short nights cut shorter by picking something interesting to watch 🤦♂️
September 2023 - first issues, Jellyfin didn't display many shows present in the TV folder displayed by Plex, it also showed 2-3 versions of the same show (usually seasons merged in Plex). Also, can't install Jellyfin on the Samsung TV downstairs, it's just not in the store... So yes, Jellyfin looks promising but it's still way behind Plex.
anyone out there where this can be used to stream audio: thinking of using old computer and use Unraid and place plex and or jellyfin to broadcast music. can this be interfaced with azuracast (an open source audio streaming)
Anybody have any experience with Wiim and Jellyfin? I cannot seem to get the Wiim Pro I have to see Jellyfin. I can get it to see my Windows 10 Jellyfin server. Jellyfin can see it and play to it using DLNA. I am just trying to host my ripped FLAC music library.
Well,your TV must be a bit older and WebOS is not updated to the lattest version witch is compatible with Jellyfin,that’s why it doesn’t apear on LGapp store. Unfortunately this is my case now as well,can’t update to the lattest WebOS but there are workarounds(i use DLNA or the browser on my TV)to watch my media.
Jelly fin does not play as many formats than Plex. PLex is superior or was before they went commercial. The organization, search and speed are sub par on jellyfin. At the moment it can't really replace Plex. its not ready for prime time, wish it was.
Don't miss out! We have an awesome newseltter: techhut.tv/
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My dream solutionwould be to have Jellyfin (or plex) on a smart stick in my tv with the ability to watch youtube with an adblocker. Do you know if such Smart Tv Stick exists? Cheers
I started to dislike Plex when they started to get pushy with their own content years ago. I currently use Emby, but Jellyfin would be my second best choice.
Is Emby paid or have paid features?
@@RzariRzari Paid features, one time fee on the device you want to use it and an optional subscription which imho is not worth it
You can just ignore it.
I have both pulling from the same library. Prefer Jellyfin and use it at home, but run Plex for remote access after several failed sessions of trying to get Jellyfin working via caddy or similar
You can exempt your LAN devices from requiring Plex external authentication to access your server (Internet down, no worries Plex still works for you, and your kids are happy!). It's right there in Network settings, at the bottom! Always amazed that Toobers that talk about/review Plex don't know about it! Right up there with tnot knowing about the NAS installer packages and that plugins don't exist anymore (probably because they never updated their server!).
Jellyfin with Tailscale works perfectly if you want to share your library with friends/family. It's very secure too.
can you help me setup with tailscale i been trying installing not working
I'd like to see how you install Tailscale on a Roku. Does it work on a SHIELD?
why tailscale? i've heard reverse proxy
This is the rig here
Out of curiosity, why use a VPN at all if it's a small private Jellyfin server?
I'm legitimately wondering. I leave mine exposed to the open web. Should I not be doing that?
I use Jellyfin with Kodi. Jellyfin as central progress and metadata library and Kodi as a player on my devices. Kodi has support for all the media standards and a very powerful interface, addons and general player. This has been the perfect setup for me at home and on the go. Kodi can also download videos and sync progress back once you have internet/connection to Jellyfin again.
reading this made me feel old and outta touch with tech
Do you use the JellyCon Add-on for this or how do you do this?
@@cyantox Jellyfin for Kodi
So for your in-home streaming, are you using Kodi on your TV or still the Jellyfin app? Looking on my LG TV, it appears my only option is Jellyfin.
I'm starting from square one learning how to set up a basic home streaming server (streaming in-home only for my case) and still trying to figure out which direction I want to go streamer-wise. Only progress I've made so far is deciding not to go with Plex 😂
@NordicDan I use kodi. I'd recommend an external player anyway. Have to yet find a TV that doesn't suck software wise. Usually, performance is just bad.
If you want to stream high bitrate remuxes, you will need ethernet anyway. WiFi won't allow that consistently. I am using a Nvidia Shield. But FireTV also works alongside a USB splitter (to have power and ethernet adapter).
One of the things we do with Plex. We're fans of an NFL team in another state. To get around the high cost of NFL Sunday Ticket, I set up a small NAS, HDHomerun and TV Antenna at a location in that state. It's worked great for years.
I believe this can be done with Jellyfin as it shows support in the dashboard. I haven't used it myself though.
For Apple TV, I use infuse as my Jellyfin client. Can also be use for Plex too.
It's worth mentioning that Infuse is a proprietary software. It costs money and collects user data. Works great from what i've read thou
Personally, I prefer Plex due to the fact that they have apps for literally any platform without any weird hacks or third-party ones but recently plex has been going downhill so I might run both and see how they stack up.
TLDW powered by the youtube transcript and chatgpt:
The person prefers Jellyfin. They mention in the transcript that they have multiple years of experience with both platforms, but they personally prefer and love Jellyfin. However, they also mention that they are currently using Plex on a daily basis, possibly for some specific reasons like client-side applications and external sharing convenience. But overall, their preference and love seem to be for Jellyfin, which is a free and open-source media server platform.
Good video all around. When my Plex server crashed and had to rebuild it form scratch, I first tried out Emby and Jellyfin. I was like 90% there on both of them, but couldn't figure out remote watching on both. It's just WAY easier on Plex. Gave up on both and went back to Plex. Bought the lifetime pass on one of those sales for that price, well worth it.
watch a tutorial for cloudflare tunnel. its free and absolutely easy to set up for everyone. there is also still free domain-services out there to point to.
they say depending on where you live, it's very much worth buying the license during a casual trip to countries like turkey (inspecting the physical server locations of your favorite vpn provider, ofc 😁). it sold "there" for 70€ iirc, and i heard if you're a bit tedious with your "traveling", you can find even cheaper prices.
Run both I have all of the kid friendly libraries on Jellyfin because of the access issues when service provider is down. I scale down the videos to helps with traffic. Plex is great for traveling with a few gsm unlocked tablets. Most countries have prepaid services. 😂😂I travel a lot and always get a sim if I’m staying more than a few weeks
I still run both, since Jellyfin tends to be buggy here and there. But Plex, is just rock solid, zero issues, even in the free version.
This is my experience as well. Jellyfin has crashed or had certain media simply not work correctly.
Thank you for the video. The one thing this video, as well as others, seem to neglect is comparing the recording and playing of over-the-air and cable TV shows. Plex often misses a recording of mine and I would be interested to hear how people have found Jellyfin in that regard. It's been hard getting info on Jellyfin's capability and reliability in that department.
What receiver are you using? I need to try this out and take a look.
I use HDHomeRun tuners with Channels DVR and share the recordings with Jellyfin.
@@TechHut I have an HDHomerun Connect 4K that the Plex (and now Jellyfin as well) servers use. Like u mentioned in your video, if the internet goes out, Plex doesn't work (probably because it can't, "phone home"). HDHomerun has an app one can use, but it's super basic, no DVR, unless u pay. As @buckeyemarksman mentioned, you can use Channels DVR app as well, but don't know much about it. Had been trying to keep things simple, but that went out the window once I began trying to gain more privacy in my tech use. That's why I'm hoping to get the Jellyfin TV part working more consistently. But since I can't program, I'm unable to participate in its advancement & help the process go faster. :(
I used Plex a while back between 2017-2019; then just started using streaming services more. Now with prices I'm back up and running with jellyfin for a solid few months now. 12 users total. Friends and family. Maxed out about 7 streams on my upstream with no issues. Compliments well with Jellyseer too. My biggest gripe is lack of support for other clients. On Jellyfin media player or web it works great. All the neat features I got working load fine. But for majority of clients its bare minimum. No good skins, layout is buggy if I change anything with CSS. Background trailers, intro music etc..
Its fine for the most part. But I do want have something as close to Netflix but self hosted. A man can dream. Still way better than plex in my opinion. I have a lot more control.
From a 10 foot interface Plex doesn't let you browse your own media without clicking 6-7 times on the remote to get to it, which never used to be the case.. now with them trying to push their own stuff it's really gone down hill. Wish Jellyfin had better clients. Plex interface and controls on tablets is a lot better.
Out of curiosity, what about Jellyfin's interface don't you like compared to Plex?
1:30 - are we going to pretend we didn't hear "lye-berry"?
He stated "lie-berry" multiple times. I don't think he knows it's spelled "library" lol
The feature i really want for jellyfin on androidTV is to be able to browse through your library by the year/decade. You can browse by genres and letters, but not by the years. That sucks.
Or language
Plex got overly complicated and bloated. I went Jellyfin. Done with Plex.
I wish it were that easy to switch.
@@Saturn2888 I found it very easy to switch to Jellyfin.
@@tomv3999 I have hundreds of custom posters, backgrounds, collections, and manually set ratings so older "not rated" kids movies show up in their profile.
Then I need to setup a reverse proxy and tell my parents and sister how to connect to Jellyfin (over the phone) and get their accounts setup too.
On top of that, I need to figure out how to get HDR and tone mapping working in the browser with Jellyfin.
Lastly, I need to figure out how to get anime setup properly. It's near impossible in Plex, and I'm still working on it. Jellyfin makes it much easier, but I still need to research how.
I dunno how any of this is easy.
While this is true, Plex supports so many more devices, particularly consoles, which can be a dealbreaker for some.
I hate what they’ve done with plex.
Plex requires an in-app purchase to activate their mobile app.
Plex also kind of forces you to purchase their Plex Pass subscription if you're going to activate their app on multiple devices.
Plex also limits remote streaming to 720p.
Plex doesn't have local accounts.
Jellyfin all the way.
-from a former Plex user
Jellyfin has so much potential but the clients still need improvement. Currently using Emby but I still keep up with the development of Jellyfin, specifically their iOS and tvOS clients.
why no love for Emby ? i have used all three (am using both Emby and Plex for many years now) and personally I prefer Emby sufficiently over Plex to have pulled the trigger on the lifetime licence. Visually, Emby is way ahead of Plex. One might argue that the main purpose of any Media Browser worth its salt is to be unobtrusive when i am actually consuming my media. In the same way that any good OS should be competent, but not intrusive (Linux Yes, Windows absolutely NOT). But the presentation of the media for my perusal and the enjoyment of the metadata whilst browsing my media, is simply way way prettier with Emby (IMO).
And Jellyfin in comparison (being a fork of Emby) just feels less refined, less complete and less featured than Emby.
Emby wins out for me, Jellyfin second and i would run it if i was not already running Emby, and Plex in third place
Plex amp is honestly to good for me to ever thonk about switching to anything else. Otherwise i would have switched to jellyfin permanently
Tried both Plex and Jellyfin. I preferred Jellyfin but missed certain features that Plex had. I moved to Emby, which I wished I had done a long time ago, so much better than both Plex and Jellyfin and has clients that work flawlessly on virtually any device.
I’ve never had any issues with Plex if the internet goes down… obviously the online features grey out, but local works fine. Weird.
Why use docker?
Is it important?
Thanks for telling about the Internet down problem. I don't understand why offline content needs internet when it's transferring over wifi.
I use plex on my NAS and TV because my Samsung TV has the Plex app built in. But it doesn't have Jellyfin. So, how do you use Jellyfin to watch movies ? For most viewing, I find that with a well organized library, just using DLNA works fine. Thanks for the video though. I know a lot more now than before.
I bought a roku an downloaded the emby app to stream to my non smart tv. I use the roku for literally nothing else lol
Can you cover the differences between Jellyfin and Emby?
A plus about jellyfin is that if you're a switch owner, there's a homebrew app.
so far i will stick with plex because of 3 main features: a client for every device without having to side load an app, transcoded downloading and Truenas support. But if they can get AV1 encoding, transcoded downloading and a client for Tizen i would jump to it.
What is an optimal app to use on a Firestick for using Jellyfin? When I search Jellyfin everyone says it's just a media server. Not like Plex that has the Server and the App/media player to use?
I have a FireTV, which is basically just a TV with a built-in Firestick.
I just ran a search and downloaded the app available and it works great, especially since upgrading my server to v10.9.7
I want to like Jellyfin, but firstly I have to manually install on my QNAP NAS whilst Plex is in the App store. Now that is not enough for me not use it but the other two issues are the dealbreaker.I use it solely for my large music collection and this is where it loses out. Firstly, it doesn't catalogue my collection properly whilst Plex does everything from the music tags on the files. But the biggest difference is speed in use...Jellyfin takes ages switching between directories or between categories whilst Plex is instant.
Plexamp is the only reason i would stay with Plex, bc I use my server heavily for music. Is there anything on Android with similar functionally for Jellyfin?
What affordable cloud storage works as a plex media server for streaming? I'm always on the road and setting up a stationary server isn't a option for my lifestyle. I'm always on the road due to work. Please any feedback would be appreciated
Yes, both services are great BUT where do you get all the content. I only have so many DVDs I can load, how do you get . Like John wick 4?
I jumped into Plex almost 5 years ago now and I loved it but they are getting pushy with their stuff and constantly wanting me to review movies that we have watched on our own server which is super annoying. I may give something else a look now and see how it works compared to Plex but we do like Plex and I have the lifelong subscription which gives us the ability to watch our own stuff when we are away which is great.
What do you mean movie reviews? I've never seen that, but I have "Live TV and Movies" disabled.
Can you watch live tv on the go?
@@xxxdpgxxxx1389 No. I don't watch love TV. But Plex has that.
You can watch a movie on your Plex and it will ask you to review it. I use Live TV and watch stuff on it and that is when you will see it. @@Saturn2888
I think so but I have not tried it but I can access the Plex and all of my media anywhere I am located on my phone or computer.@@xxxdpgxxxx1389
Is your bias more based off the fact you have paid for Plex? I Do understand Jellyfin is a little less "refined" but it seems to be pretty good for free
There is always bias. I used Jellyfin first, but I wanted to try out the Plex Home thing when I purchased it. It wouldn't take much of a push for me to switch back to Jellyfin full time.
@Don_Coyote That's the fun thing about open source projects. They generally have a lot of the community actively pushing their own fixes and improvements into the project itself. Even if the project ever got shutdown and archived. A fork would be up within a day and have pulled most of the developers over to still work on it. Especially when it comes to us nerds and our media consumption. I highly doubt this will ever "not work one day".
@Don_Coyote Well I mean, you kinda already seem set in your ways so there's no point me trying to question your reasons why. In this video's case, Plex vs Jellyfin. I'd say Plex has got more downfall than Jellyfin has with how they can push content on a self hosted project, charging for hardware encoding, offline watching not working, etc etc. Amongst other things. If anything, what you said seems to aim more at Plex than Jellyfin. Not sure what 50 half working projects you're on about but can't say I have that issue. If something isn't working, use something else. If you have the experience, fix it yourself. Simple as that really. Plus if you feel that way. Just stop using open source projects and pay for everything.
I really liked your solution. Could you please tell me what hosting system you use? Proxmox, or CasaOS or etc?
Do you have a guide on how to setup plex/jellyfin and hardware transcoding for docker plex/jellyfin container on proxmox? I already have it setup to GPU passthrough from your guide for that and Windows 11.
I wish you would have talked about this but I hear that jellyfin handles live TV a lot better than Plex because you're able to share it to all users that you give the ability to have access into your home server. Plex only allows you to share live TV to your home accounts.
I have both installed on my Asustor NAS. I prefer Jellyfin purely because Plex seems to be accessing the NAS drives almost continuously, as if it is always scanning the folders for new content, and there is no settings to stop this. As soon as I disable Plex on the NAS the drive activity drops by 90% over the course of a day. I don't know if this is a bug in the version of PLex that Asustor uses (android .apk). I have tried updating it, uninstalling and reinstalling but this always happens.
The difference is in how often it searches for library and metadata information. Look for the duration allocated in your Plex settings.
You can stop this by changing how often Plex looks for updates to the library. I have mine set to once per day and I don't have the same problem at all however, if I add something I plan to watch soon, I manually scan the library where I put the new movie and it works great.
My internet goes out at times, you can fix Plex to still work without internet Authentication for local network access by adding the local IP's or range
I have a 4.3" waveshare touchscreen, Pi4 and DAC.
I hate music streaming because sooner or later you lose signal when you need it.
Can you recommend something free that functions as a player for a small touchscreen?
Could I use Linux mint set up jellyfin on that
DLNA one love!
I have MiniDLNA on my old netbook (1 gig ram, atom cpu). Even Raspberry Pi can handle it!
Can it run PLEX or Jellyfin? NO!
Thanks for the video. Do you use Plex or Jellyfin for recording live TV? I do like Plex but if I could get that feature for free with Jellyfin, that might be worth it for me to switch. I'd like to record local sports and let my family watch from a different area.
I was thinking of picking up a tuner to do some testing. Have any recommendations?
@@TechHut I've never done something like this but I think the HomerunHD is probably the best bet.
I've tried jellyfin and for some reason my GPU goes to 100% all the time while I'm streaming and changing subtitles takes forever. On Plex I don't have neither of those problems. ps: I have a RTX 3060.
The machine you showed at the end. How many people can watch same video at a time?
are your films side loaded ? or did you have to actually copy them in from your personal dads. is this what is needed to host my media. and game ? I also want to host my websites and client websites on my own server can this all be one ?
HW transcoding is random on plex and seems sluggish as it freezes at times or doesn't use HW at all. Wondering if Jelly is a better solution for overall performance.
Are you running this on a Raspberry Pi? If so which pi and how much memory on the pi? Any settings for the pi? Thanks.
I love my plex setup. But I have a server with a lot of ram and and processors, I'll run another VM w/ jellyfin, this looks cool. I just found an app on my smart tv for jellyfin so my friends and family can use it too. To them they'll probably wonder why the hell I'm making them use another app for the same library, but I just want to see it work.
I find jellyfin more resource heavy on CPU and RAM when using it on raspberry pi 4. Thanks to that prefer plex.
Jellyfin have one bad thing, if you stop movie/tvshow when left few mins, and turn it on later, that episode/movie is marked as watched.
That is a setting that can be changed. You set the maximum/minimum watch time before a show is marked as watched or completed.
@@Mantrooo thx.
dashboard->playback->resume (in the top-middle, easy to miss)-> Maximum resume percentage.
found that after ~5 mins of googleing ;))
For me, i go with plex. Not only editing movies and adding library is easy, it has all the movies without adding libraries, the only con with plex is the pass. Jellyfin is… alright, its just has complicated editing. So i go with plex.
Pls dont hate me
Its only going to be a matter of time with Plex's content provider relationships before they start reporting or banning people for sharing media outside their household which is why they want you to authenticate on their cloud platform and not locally like Jellyfin. I've always been very suspicious of my data being stored in the PLEX cloud and what they can see like my media library, who is watching it etc... and I believe it will only take a major studio to lean on them before they starting sending out cease and desist letters and start pulling back on their core offering of a local media streaming platform.
I have a server, running UNRAID, Intel 14900 14th gen, z790 AORUS Master X, 2 sticks 94gb DDR5 5600mhz ram, 2tb NVME cache. I have Plex Pass, I have audio going off and on that I would forward and rewind a bit for the audio to come back, also towards the end of the video, the video would stop playing, this only happens towards the end of the show. I've encoded the videos in h265 with ACC audio, and it still happens. I've also messed with Plex settings. the issue still persists. I've even encoded the video to AV1 with ACC audio and still persist. Looked online, and a lot of people are having these issues with Plex.
had plex for a few years now hopped on over to jellyfin for about a year or 2.
my previous NAS had only 2 HDD's and with plex i noticed even if the NAS has nothing to do plex keeps doing stuff preventing the drives from ever going to sleep. with jellyfin once it's done the nas actually starts to idle and even sleep if it's got nothing to do. (yea NAS HDD's don't need to sleep...might even be better if it doesn't but spending 24 hours a day doing something or spending 18 hours sleeping i feel better about it actually gooing to sleep when it has nothing to do, now i have the OS and docker containers running of a volume on a SSD and have only my media/backup's on the HDD's so those are off/sleeping unless i'm actually watching a show.
also the plex app for my TV's OS was junk, the plex app on android TV at the time kept having issue's, and i bought a new tv (cheap one but with the intent to run app's natively) and later a google chromecast with android tv so i didn't have to use my damn phone to cast plex to my tv as that app did work well >.>
jellyfin might have less app's but so far...it has worked better :P
Been using Jellyfin for the past year. But the recent update the chimps broke it as all my content stutters.
Do they even test these updates before forcing them onto people 🙄.
It would be nice to find something that just works!
Great video. When my home server is back up, I plan on trying out both. I've been using Plex for a long time and apps are available for everything. I am not sure if my other TVs have an app. My cousin has shared his collection with me and my network is double NATed and plex really hates it (as far as I can tell). I share my collection with my parents and sister and they don't have plexpass. My parents just got internet at their house so setting up Jellyfin locally might still be better.
I've been looking to replace my plexamp as I listen to a lot of audiobooks and want to share them with above family members.
Does jellyfin allow for things like downloading subtitles? 4 or 5 years ago, when I was shifting my collection from DVD/BR, I didn't always rip the sibtitles. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon without subtitles is fun. Plexpass let me download subtitles.
If you are into audiobooks, an audiobookshelf is probably the best for that. If you have a double NAT issue that can be got around through Tailscale
I love looking at my meatah data in my liberries while watching my shows on rooku
If jellyfin can get their client side thing together, I'd be more incline to switch to it. But for now its Plex all the way. Running both of them with jellyfin being for home and plex being for mobile is too much, and I would much rather have a single solution.
Hello! I'm new to this and would like to use my PC a server and my xbox series S to watch the media, jellyfin is ok for this?
What is the point of both of them?
New Plex app won’t work with older Plex server, which I can not upgrade
How do you actually get the shows and movies on there thought?
Libaries. Homer had to pull a crayon out of his brain to stop saing that word that way.
!! Exclaimer for people using Samsung TV with its Tizen OS - It does NOT support Jellyfin or Emby clients, and you are basically forced to use PLEX as your only option. Sure, you could use some dongle instead, like Chromecast or whatever else, but come on...
This was the deciding factor that made me choose PLEX over other servers. Otherwise, I'd go with Jellyfin that has one option in particular that other media servers do not - ability to change position of the subtitles on the screen, which is a huge bummer for me while using PLEX where you're limited to three basic settings - top, middle and bottom, and bottom means the very bottom of the screen instead of the bottom of the video frame, which I'd prefer.
What did you smoke, you have Jellyfin for Tizen officially maintained by the team, the only caveat is that you have to side load the app yourself. Do your research first before you post crap like this.
Emby is there, I have a Samsung TV
I tried jellyfin on my samsung tv this week and it takes forever to start play any 4k movies. Also to skip scenes. So its not usable dont even bother. Plex is instant. Emby works too
@@Ninu89 then your TV cannot or for some reason tells your JF to transcode it, which takes long to start.
When it starts playing its direct play anyway
Do you use 4k uhd files with these? I have been using Kodi and I find I get lots of stutter. Yesterday I tried plex with a 4k file and it seemed to run great. I tried Jellyfin today and it seems to have some stutter, you get any of that. Anyway to fix it in Jellyfin?
Does Jellyfin have the ability to detect intros yet? That feature alone made Jellyfin unusable for me when I looked into it a few years ago.
There's an intro skipper add-on for Jellyfin, just Google it.
I am staying with Plex. Jellyfish is to complicated. Have to install to many extra things to get it work on my nas. While Plex isn't perfect it working well for me.
For plex and having users stream your content, do you need multiple plex passes? Like one per device doing the streaming?
No. Only the server needs a Plex pass. The clients connecting don't need a Plex pass.
I can't figure out how to pass a mounted network drive to a docker containter
Do you have port forwarding enabled on your router? When you’re internet goes out I think that not having port forwarding on your router might be causing the inability to use Plex during an internet outage.
The only reason I use Plex is Roku. If I had AndroidTVs I would use JellyFin, but I can't stand AndroidTV ads and interface.
I done with plex, using 2 shields and they have so many problems, with no support fix them
Plex is my legacy system, my Samsung TV doesn't support Jellyfin and is also EOL-ing support for a few apps. Bye bye Samsung, never again.
Plex on Android costs ££, Jellyfin works just fine. I run a VPN on my router, so no firewall setup either.
Fortunately installing both servers on my NAS was easy, and I have no problem having both sharing the same library.
As for my tv, when Samsung undermine the software too far then I'll just get an HDMI dongle. I'm not replacing perfectly working hardware just because a company has decided I've owned it too long.
I switched to Jillyfin, i liked it more.
Pleased that you are happy with media identification on both platforms. Frankly I found Jellyfin to be worse than Plex for media identification. Plex is bad at it but Jellyfin was even worse when I tried it. Both require hours of work to correct errors. Yes the media is correctly labelled according to advice, so I'm afraid there is no excuse, both are disappointing in their media identification. BTW none of the media is obscure. Music is the worst. Multimillion selling music that requires my intervention to correctly identify the thumbnails. Disappointing.
i use Jellyfin to index the conference videos i download, it's not great but it get's it done
Can either PLEX or Jellyfin stream via Interet. Lets say I'm an another country where my server is can I stream my personal photos and videos on my home server?
Plex can do this. Sounds like Jellyfin can but you have to do a little more setup.
Just wondering why don’t people just use Stremio, you just click a title and it loads sources.
Do either of these have a random play feature? I want to rip the movies and shows and have them queue up at random. Too many short nights cut shorter by picking something interesting to watch 🤦♂️
I tried adding an m3u to iptv service on jellyfin and the guide loads very slow. Got any recommendations?
how to get rid of plex saying unauthorize access. I cannot log in on my server using plex.
September 2023 - first issues, Jellyfin didn't display many shows present in the TV folder displayed by Plex, it also showed 2-3 versions of the same show (usually seasons merged in Plex). Also, can't install Jellyfin on the Samsung TV downstairs, it's just not in the store...
So yes, Jellyfin looks promising but it's still way behind Plex.
Jellyfin android app for tv is not very good user friendly, i prefer Plex or Emby have a user friendly client.
How to add Jellyfin to Apple TV?
Plex not playing local media when it's raining is the most frustrating thing for me.
Im running plex on a pi4 8gb and runs perfectly.
anyone out there where this can be used to stream audio: thinking of using old computer and use Unraid and place plex and or jellyfin to broadcast music. can this be interfaced with azuracast (an open source audio streaming)
How did Emby get left out?
I havn't used Emby nearly as much. In the cards I have the video that I included Emby in
@@TechHut Got it. :-) Thank you.
Does any one have a discord or any group anywhere discussing all these topics?
No audio books?
Anybody have any experience with Wiim and Jellyfin? I cannot seem to get the Wiim Pro I have to see Jellyfin. I can get it to see my Windows 10 Jellyfin server. Jellyfin can see it and play to it using DLNA. I am just trying to host my ripped FLAC music library.
I left plex because I had to use their service to access my media.
Anyone know which is easier for including Closed Captions or is that kinda automatic? I have a deaf spouse so need CC. Thanks
Plex with subzero works well for me
Really should have compared Plex to Emby since Jellyfin is just a less capable split from Emby.
Unfortunately my LG tv does not have the jellyfin app in its store
Jellyfin app is on my LG webOS TV
Well,your TV must be a bit older and WebOS is not updated to the lattest version witch is compatible with Jellyfin,that’s why it doesn’t apear on LGapp store.
Unfortunately this is my case now as well,can’t update to the lattest WebOS but there are workarounds(i use DLNA or the browser on my TV)to watch my media.
Jelly fin does not play as many formats than Plex. PLex is superior or was before they went commercial. The organization, search and speed are sub par on jellyfin. At the moment it can't really replace Plex. its not ready for prime time, wish it was.
so to everybody who came here, which one do you prefer? plex or jellyfin? let's me clear.