Don't pay for Plex regardless. Jellyfin is completely free and does pretty much everything. Barely even takes any knowhow to make it accessible from outside your network, too.
I already own it, but I wouldn't have at 750 dollars. When I got it, it was 200 dollars for life, which was reasonable considering it's user friendly and convenient and I had to keep in mind other people in the household who aren't so good with technology.
While Jellyfin is great for being entirely locally run and free, it is pretty inferior in terms of user experience compared to plex. The sorting, metadata, and library functions are stuck in what Plex was doing 6 or 7 years ago.
Yeah jellyfin is great, it has its own quirks and is not quite as good as plex with stuff like metadata.
But i have setup as portable installation meaning i can just copy it to any computer and run it and have the instance running.
If I were running like a media server for friends/family, I would use plex just because it has a better/more intuitive gui, i guess they figure in that situation people will just fork out the money.
But if im just gonna run my own server so i can play shows and track them netflix style then yeah jellyfin the best.
I also wish I had invested in some more hard drives to store media on before fucking prices skyrocketed.
Good advice. Plex is trying to make me pay extra to see high quality videos (I forgot the codec name) but Jellyfin is free to see it. I need to switch over. I’ve always used the free version.
Don't pay for Plex regardless. Jellyfin is completely free and does pretty much everything. Barely even takes any knowhow to make it accessible from outside your network, too.
Thirded. Switched to Jellyfin the instant Plex wanted to charge a subscription to use hardware transcoding on your own GPU.
They're going down the Crunchyroll route of piracy enabler > wanting to be "legitimate" > mediocre service > awful service.
I already own it, but I wouldn't have at 750 dollars. When I got it, it was 200 dollars for life, which was reasonable considering it's user friendly and convenient and I had to keep in mind other people in the household who aren't so good with technology.
While Jellyfin is great for being entirely locally run and free, it is pretty inferior in terms of user experience compared to plex. The sorting, metadata, and library functions are stuck in what Plex was doing 6 or 7 years ago.
Yeah jellyfin is great, it has its own quirks and is not quite as good as plex with stuff like metadata.
But i have setup as portable installation meaning i can just copy it to any computer and run it and have the instance running.
If I were running like a media server for friends/family, I would use plex just because it has a better/more intuitive gui, i guess they figure in that situation people will just fork out the money.
But if im just gonna run my own server so i can play shows and track them netflix style then yeah jellyfin the best.
I also wish I had invested in some more hard drives to store media on before fucking prices skyrocketed.
Good advice. Plex is trying to make me pay extra to see high quality videos (I forgot the codec name) but Jellyfin is free to see it. I need to switch over. I’ve always used the free version.