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Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 8 months ago (13 children)

That “aside” is everything though.

Plex is focused on making money, whether that is from the sale of your data or selling you products. Jellyfin is a community-driven project, so its focus is just on being better because it exists.

With Jellyfin, it’s truly self-hosting as opposed to leveraging a third party to do some of the legwork. Plex “offers” more, but it all comes at the cost of your data, or your data+an actual fee.

Jellyfin is available directly on most newer TV stores, iOS/Apple TV, Android, Chromecast, Fire stick, and Roku. It already takes some work to set up your media library in the relevant structures, so if you’re going to do the work anyway for a self-hosting option, why pay Plex extra for what Jellyfin can do for free since it is an open-source project?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Pretty much the only problem is the lack of clients for Jellyfin vs Plex.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Which clients do you see missing, though?

I think this might have been the case when Jellyfin originally forked from Emby, but not so much today.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

There's STILL not a great option for AppleTV. I bit the bullet years ago and have a lifetime infuse option. But that's not really any different than how I paid (also years ago) for a lifetime Plex Pass too.

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