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FFS Plex, the server is on my local network (no.lastname.nz)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Well I already have jellyfin running in a container, just have to figure out how to get mum's TV to work with it I guess

log in on a local IP and not the network name and it's working again. but I'll be moving to jellyfin from now

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[–] 39 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Longtime lifetime Plex Pass holder here.

FOSS is important. Having control over how you use your own hardware and files is important.

But even if none of that mattered, once I actually used Jellyfin for a few days the snappy bloat-free feel of it won me over. Switching between Plex and Jellyfin felt like switching between windows and linux.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

    I have a lot of custom artwork, covers, playlists, etc. How easy did that data migrate? I've got 6,500 movies

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    I can't imagine moving over would be difficult. Just point Jellyfin to the same folder containing your content. When I first setup my home lab, I was going to use Plex, but I could not get it to recognize media. The naming format wasn't right or something. Jellyfin just worked immediately

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    man, I've manually setup tons of huge playlists, and entered in a hell of a lot of TV show information by hand so episodes play in an order I like. Getting that working in plex probably constitutes days of work. I don't want to even think about re-doing that in jelly fin. If there were a way to automate the process though, I'd probably be more interested.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    what is FOSS

    I've also got lifetime plex pass. I might take more of an interest in Jellyfin if there was an easy way to transfer all of my server settings, playlists, metadata, etc. over. But it just seems like such a hastle to make the switch and I really don't have any big issues with plex aside from needing to change the settings so they don't sell my data.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    FOSS is free and open source software. And the word "free" does a lot of heavy lifting there because it refers to much more than it typically not costing anything. It means that you have the freedom to do what you want with your stuff, basically. You (or others on your behalf) can see the source code for what the software is doing, and you can even change and improve it.

    You'll see the word "libre" thrown around in this context too, for that reason. For many people the liberty side of free matters a lot more than the no-cost side. But they do go hand in hand, because not needing to protect a revenue stream makes it a lot easier to not enshittify software. You'll see names like LibreOffice and FLOSS instead of FOSS.

    So it's basically the whole Linux world that is very well represented on Lemmy and the fediverse. :)

    Sent using FOSS Voyager web client ...in FOSS browser LibreWolf (a fork of FireFox) ...on FOSS operating system Linux.

    I use Mint btw.
    (This is an inside joke for the other Linux people -- a play off of "I use Arch btw" where Arch Linux is a hardcore distro where you kind of build your operating system piece by piece, but with excellent documentation. Valve switched SteamOS to be based on Arch a while back)

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