Topic per title, basically.
For me: after setting up all the integrations and fall overs using the arr stack and Jellyfin (inc Sabnzdb etc)… I keep circling back to Nova video player.
https://github.com/nova-video-player/aos-AVP/releases
It’s arguably not even self hosting…but there something undeniably cool about sticking a USB stick into a router, installing a single app on your TV and boom, done. EDIT: of course, it can consume the *arr stack, integrate with Ombi etc
IOW, I really like stuff that simple to set up and punches above its weight class.
Jellyfin is free and open-source, which is why it is very popular with the lemmy crowd. But unless you value those two aspects extremely high, it’s not better.
Eh, I think it depends.
In terms of display and content management, even how the client apps work, I’d say Jellyfin is far, far ahead.
Plex’s only advantage (to me) would be remote access, and even then I’d say its just how accounts are handled. Which is only good when Plex auth is working properly, and an absolutely awful experience when its not.
I like having SSO in front of JF, I think its a much better experience. Now I just need to figure out how to get my kids to use SSO without a device… Which I’m leaning toward an NFC reader and a tag for each of them, maybe in a toy or something they can tap to a reader. TBD.
Yeah anyone who bought a lifetime Plex pass back when it was very reasonably priced is left looking at the jellyfin/Plex debate a bit crosseyed.
If you don’t have a lifetime pass, and need to cut costs, go jellyfin. Otherwise, I choose Plex.
Lifetime plex holder here, haven’t installed plex since the third time my server shit the bed and it couldn’t recover. Jellyfin has never had an issue with hardware failures. It also doesn’t try to advertise random shit to me that I’m not interested in, so there’s that too.