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plex or Jellyfin? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’ve got Jellyfin up and running right now on a DS620Slim NAS and it’s running pretty good so far. I’ve seen a lot of people say they prefer Plex over Jellyfin. What are the main advantages to plex?

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

The FOSS crowd will eventually pop in and try sway you strongly the other way, but at the end of the day, it really boils down to bigger platform, more app choices and more supported platforms. If you expect anyone other than yourself to be using it, on anywhere else other than your own equipments, but just don’t quite know who or where yet, then Plex might give you a better running chance in supporting that use case. Otherwise, choose whichever one floats your boat more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The FOSS crowd will eventually pop in and try sway you strongly the other way

That's pretty clear from the comments/upvotes, but I don't think it's undeserved either. Jellyfin is the underdog that came to take the slack left by Plex growing discontent, does a decent job overall, and gets measurably better over time.

What's interesting to me is to think about what Plex could do that an active community around jellyfin couldn't, and the answer is not technical, but commercial, and along the lines of more partnership and integrations with hardware or streaming platforms, for which I (and most people here, apparently) have no use. YMMV of course.