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Jellyfin is not just good... but better than Plex now?! (vger.social)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I've feel like I've used Plex forever. I also feel like every couple years I try Jellyfin to see how it's going. Recently I tried it again because of Plex restriction on more than one user.

Well, I just tried it again and it's substantially improved! This time it actually properly detected most of my library!

Also the Android TV app is AWESOME! No more glitches, lagging, and freezing trying to play my stuff like Plex did. It is butter smooth.

Wow! I'm impressed and I just deleted Plex. Good riddance.

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[–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Subtitles are the biggest non-issue it's crazy... Some devices don't support internal subs, so you just extract them for your entire library using ffmpeg;

pushd "\\nas\Media\Movies\"
fd -e mkv | each {|x| ffmpeg -i $x -map 0:s:0 $x.srt }

Once it's done, it's done forever for the files you have. As you add them, just run it again.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Crazy how that doesn't at all even address the problem of subtitle sync! It just pastes subtitles as-is in there. What if the subtitle files are at a different framerste? What if the subtitles have the wrong starting offset for the media? What if the subtitles have 1-2 mistakes in them as far as timing?

    Hence why there are a dozen subtitle syncing tool projects supplementing ffmpeg like ffsubsync, subsync, alass, autosubsync, srtsync, etc...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Crazy how that doesn’t at all even address the problem of subtitle sync!

    As I said, this isn't even an issue with Jellyfin. It's an issue with the device that's playing the media--your television (or chromecast). This workaround makes an exact copy of the internal subs, and dumps them to an SRT which allows your television (or chromecast) to play the internal subtitles as external subtitles...

    It has nothing to do with subsync, it's not syncing subs. There are no "mistakes" because you're pulling the internal subs exactly as they are internally, externally...

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