Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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.

There's a pretty good Linus Tech Tips video going over most of what you're asking about, you might find it useful.

I’ll be watching the thread. Been thinking about this too since Plex laid some people off

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.

I'm trying out jellyfin lately and there are a few frustrations I've run into. I don't have any transcoding hardware, running a Xeon d based server and Jellyfin does not like this. Plex can transcode fine without a quicksync enabled CPU, but Jellyfin is very hit or miss.

The Apple TV app. Been using Plex on Apple TV for years and had zero issues. Tried the Jellyfin app and it is pretty terrible. Even scrolling through movies is problematic as it bugs out. Cant play 4k movies either. I tried using Infuse and it is much better and can play 4k movies. The only thing I really miss from Plex here is sorting movies by year, rating etc.

Mobile apps. Again, problems with the Jellyfin app. It's very hit or miss whether something will play or not, and usually seeking will make it hang forever.

I'm very tempted to bust out my old Intel nuc and test Jellyfin with quicksync, but I don't really want to increase my power usage just for one app. So I'll primarily use Plex for now until I upgrade my server or Jellyfin becomes less demanding.

Unfortunately whenever I play a video on Jellyfin, it stutters for a second every 10 seconds. I thoroughly checked the video playback settings but couldn't determine the cause. It's been a non-starter for me, despite how much I want to switch over from Plex.

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.

İ was using Plex with lifetime license until now for last three years but i switched to Jellyfin for three main reasons:

1. Plex still doesn't support ASS type subtitles.
2. Plex discontinued plugin support and because of this i couldn't put my anime shows and movies in same folder. Workaround for plugins sometimes work and sometimes not.
3. Plex still not supporting ebooks, comics or mangas.

But Jellyfin lets me finally direct play anime episodes with ass subtitles, episodes load instantly and i made mixed libraries for my easier access.

Plugin support for Jellyfin is amazing. Currently using Symfonium for my music library and it's really good, works better than Plexamp for me.

It was a pain to setup youtube videos on Plex, it couldn't show metadata but with Jellyfin it only takes two seconds to show metadata with embedded thumbnails. Library scans are really fast too.

Now i can put all my movies, shows, albums, photos, youtube rips and even comic books on Jellyfin without a problem.

Causal user who only really used plex for music, jellyfin is so much better for music. Firstly good clients without having to pay for plexpass. Music doesn't really need transcoding so I can't speak on that behalf.

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...