Jellyfin isn’t meant to be used for remote streaming, isn’t compatible with most devices people use to stream media too, and is a nightmare to share your library with friends and family.
Plex solved all of these problems like a decade ago, whereas the JellyFin devs don’t even acknowledge them as problems, more just “out of scope”.
I didn’t like Plex back then, Jellyfin was non-existent at that point. I stuck with Kodi on PCs and laptops (and Android, where you can have Kodi no problem), and VLC on iPads and iPhones. And for a dumb-smart TV (which has no Kodi) a basic UPnP server (Kodi has it in settings) does the job.
What are these friends and family devices? You can share content to Kodi not only via UPnP, but also via ftp. Which I found many times simpler and even faster, with no difference at all on the client (Kodi).
I may have missed something, but in my extended family everyone is covered quite easily. VLC for iOS isn’t that fancy comparing to having covers, metadata and all, but if they know what they want to watch, that’s no problem at all.
Jellyfin isn’t meant to be used for remote streaming, isn’t compatible with most devices people use to stream media too, and is a nightmare to share your library with friends and family.
Plex solved all of these problems like a decade ago, whereas the JellyFin devs don’t even acknowledge them as problems, more just “out of scope”.
Huh?
Just download the Jellyfin app on whatever device and log in… Or use the web browser
Oh I’ll just wish the app into existence on every device lol
I mean, it’s on Android, iOS, Apple TV, Android TV, Fire TV, Tizen/Samsung TVs, LG TV, Roku, Xbox…
What’s the issue?
I didn’t like Plex back then, Jellyfin was non-existent at that point. I stuck with Kodi on PCs and laptops (and Android, where you can have Kodi no problem), and VLC on iPads and iPhones. And for a dumb-smart TV (which has no Kodi) a basic UPnP server (Kodi has it in settings) does the job.
What are these friends and family devices? You can share content to Kodi not only via UPnP, but also via ftp. Which I found many times simpler and even faster, with no difference at all on the client (Kodi).
I may have missed something, but in my extended family everyone is covered quite easily. VLC for iOS isn’t that fancy comparing to having covers, metadata and all, but if they know what they want to watch, that’s no problem at all.
We’re talking about Plex and Jellyfin here……
And which project Plex was forked from? Remind me, pretty please.