In todays episode of “Plex enshittifies” Plex employee breaks ToS.
Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/fake-reviews-on-play-store-by-plex-staff/917736
In todays episode of “Plex enshittifies” Plex employee breaks ToS.
Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/fake-reviews-on-play-store-by-plex-staff/917736
I tried jellyfin but it isn’t even close to as a good as plex
Same as my experience
Emby’s better than both, but jellyfin folks are probably going to crucify me for saying that.
jellyfin was a fork of emby anyway, its core framework is solid.
Emby has more of the plex-like polish, but it is more closed source than I would prefer to trust with my media, so I get by with Jellyfin. It works more than well enough fro my in-home media streaming and I still run plex for my remote users as I bought a plex pass way back at the start and I’m going to use it until I simply cant anymore… which seems to be rapidly approaching.
Can’t say me remote entry isnt working. Was streaming it from my phone in the firefox and chrome browser while on the go and also from my work pc.
Can’t imagine how easier one wants it to be in comparison (it’s literally like navigating to Youtube).
Samsung TVs have a Plex app, but not a Jellyfin one. Lots of people have Samsung TVs. I mean lots. Other modern TVs are likely the same, like Onn (at least the Roku TVs) last time I checked, and again they are all over. The ease-of-use factor really is a huge win for Plex.
Edit: Yes, Samsung Tizen models can try and sideload an app, but that’s not something the vast majority of people are ever going to even think about, let alone figure out how to accomplish.
Edit 2: Well shiver me timbers, Jellyfin’s on those Onn TV’s. TIL.
I believe the AndroidTV client is the only really aczively developed client.
Using roku jellyfin app daily, but I agree the fact that jellyfins app hasnt been approved for tizen yet is a point against it
Is that on an Onn TV? I might have to go check it out again. Thanks!
Yeah its a cheap ass roku onn I got from a roommate. Worth a look. To my knowledge tizen is the only major platform jellyfin isnt on is tizen, and from what Ive read thats more on samsung than on jellyfin. Its been up to date and submitted for a while now it just hasnt been approved by samsung
Yeah, I’m not about to defend Samsung or their app distribution by any means, I just know they had the Plex app when I needed it.
Thanks for the heads up on Roku though, I appreciate it!
Yeah, I get it. I just prefer the polish.
Always funny how anyone is crucified (on Lemmy) for using Windows or (how dare you) paid and/or free proprietary software.
Yet when it comes to something like Plex they always backpedal and either state that they don’t have something like that or it’s so convenient.
If one goes on a (F)OSS crusade at least be consistent… >:(
Has a time and place… But for the general person you can just put them in front of linux and they wouldn’t have any idea as long as they can see the chrome icon to get to facebook.
I can see that side of the discussion… Getting over the roadblock of installation… I’ve converted many people to Linux. My argument with people defending windows is that they always seem to think that “windows just works”… which it really doesn’t… or that linux sucks because of x, y, and z… and when I pull out a news article of windows having widespread issues because of “x” where x is literally the same x as they just said for linux… It’s cricket chirps all around.
Plex is convenient. It’s userbase is proof of that. Windows is convenient in that it comes pre-installed on the computer the user is using… but otherwise a user would be perfectly fine or even possibly have less issues on linux.
I don’t find that to be inconsistent.
As someone with lifetime Emby premium, I switched to Jellyfin.
Why?
Emby development is dead in the water. It works, it’s stable, but it’s treading water. And because it is partially closed source and not changing much the addon development community is not as robust. If you try it and it has what you want, it works just fine. But I want an active community making new features and developing add-ons and extending what I get out of it. I did not need premium to get a similar feature set out of Jellyfin, I am an experienced self hoster so I was able to switch without missing a beat. And now I can click a button to skip and intro, or the recap for the episode I just finished watching. And I can try the very large set of add-ons that are out there.