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Plex To Launch a Store For Movies and TV Shows (entertainment.slashdot.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Jellyfin is great and open source. I've never tried Plex, but I've heard that Plex has apps on more platforms.

Also, I'd recommend checking out Findroid if your on Android. Its UI is native instead of the usual web interface in the official apps. Iirc iOS has a similar project.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Plex is definitely more user friendly. I would like to try Jellyfin again but I host Plex for my parents back home and I don't want to troubleshoot Jellyfin internationally when I know they can just install Plex and log in on their devices and I don't have to deal with it.

Definitely different strokes for different folks but I understand Lemmy is very big on FOSS so it's no surprise Jellyfin has such a positive following here.

Ultimately I'm glad to have options regardless.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

How is a login screen less user friendly?
Eveny non-technical mother got the hang of it after I explained it to her one time.

Just the playback has some quirks with audio/subs sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why can’t your parents just login to JellyFin and browse from their profile? I don’t really see what extra work would be required on their end?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does Jellyfin have you open the app, type in a 4 character code, and then just work? I'm assuming it doesn't. So that is why.

If Jellyfin requires any more effort than that - EVEN if it's simply entering a username and password with a TV remote, that is extra work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It’s a 6 digit code.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/quick-connect/

But I’ve never used it so it may be more complicated to setup? Worth looking into for sure.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

Ah, thanks. I've been considering installing it on my Plex server so I can evaluate it but I have no issues with Plex whatsoever. But yes them getting bigger means more chances for things to get bad.