I have setup Jellyfin as a docker container and will bind-volume the same locations as Plex, but I was interested in anyone’s perspective having made the switch in the last year or so.
What are some things you miss, what are issues/benefits you hadn’t expected?
I’ll be watching the thread. Been thinking about this too since Plex laid some people off
I’m still dual-wielding Plex and Jellyfin. Plex for sharing, Jellyfin mostly for me. What I miss: Skip intro, skip outtro, PMM, Tautulli, Overseer (looks like Jellyseer can cover it, but while I wait for others I might as well wait for the main repo to support Jellyfin), the interface is pretty old-school but their new VueJS (IIRC) interface looks like it’ll solve that issue. Nowits’s just about waiting for it to become the primary interface in apps.
Benefit: No more defaulting to 720p 3mbps! That shit is outdated as fuck in 2023…
Jellyfin has skip intro. Let me know if you wanna know how to set it up
Am I using plex wrong? Where the hell is there a skip intro??
I really don’t miss a single thing about Plex. In fact I switched because I was constantly getting playback bugs with Plex where I was getting no video stream. Jellyfin has been a lot more reliable.
How’s the offline experience?
Last time I checked something big was missing, I can’t remember what though.
I’ll restart my homelab in a month and I have already chosen Jellyfin but I’m still curious about what to expect.
Absolutely flawless. I haven’t got a single complaint.
From my migration experience Plex seems to be a bit more forgiving if you don’t already have a fully organized media library complete with correct metadata, especially for large music libraries.
Also there is no Rasplex, i.e if you want a standalone Jellyfin client device for your TV you have to go through Kodi, there’s no fire-and-forget finished image.
Jellyfin also doesn’t seamlessly play movie files that have been split into parts, so I’ve had to do some manual ffmpeg concatenations to get many of my movies ready for it.
Then there is Plexamp, of course, which is still superior to Finamp in terms of features.
