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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I heard Plex has something going on so people are switching to Jellyfin

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Plex has been like this for years, I dropped it as soon as the first jellyfin version was out. Fuck everything about plex

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I’m still using Plex successfully. I bought the lifetime pass for $75 a few years back and they haven’t been able to track me down and kill me off, so my movies find me wherever I pause long enough to watch a few minutes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Plex has been garbage for longer than their latest outrage.

[–] snugglesthefalse 1 points 1 year ago

For sure, I swapped over when I was setting up my automated TV/movie obtainer after I ditched netflix last year, tried to watch something on my phone and it immediately starts complaining that I haven't bought the special version. Also GPU encoding was either nonexistent or paywalled too I don't remember. I'm not going to throw money at something before I've had a good enough period of it working how I'd like.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh really? I was just thinking about trying it. Maybe I'll look at other options first then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why jellyfin?

Preference aside, Plex has a single cheap lifetime pass that you don’t absolutely need, I don’t see how they can compare to any of this corporate squeeze you for every dime you got bullshit akin to blizzard and friends