Not sure why Plex laid off the team, was it the response to the new updates (doubt it), was it "AI", are they planning on going in a new direction?
Pure speculation - maybe it was the kind of response you're definitely not hoping for. Get ready for more dog shit apps :)
I'm still using Kodi. It still does everything I need it to do, user complaints about "dated UI" be damned.
About the only thing I wish it shipped was a built-in renamer utility to help organize the media to the naming scheme that Kodi expects in order to scrape metadata properly. Most of the leading third-party utilities for this are proprietary subscription apps, which is a huge shame when the core product is FLOSS.
The thing I really like about plex was that 99% of the time, it would scan and match up my media, even if file formats were inconsistent. That was a growing pain for Emby, so it was another reason I kept plex for music.
Is there a good alternative to plex for music?
Handing off between devices is my current pain point with it. It can group players so that you can do multi-room synced play, but I use that to hand off from my desktop to my phone. You can transfer the active playlist to another device. But in either case it's a manual interaction and doesn't "just happen". To be fair, I didn't have 100% success rate with Spotify doing this correctly either. Sometimes it did it, sometimes it just started in its own world.
The MA IOS app is REALLY rough; but I have had very good success with Xonara on ios, which is currently available through testflight.
As much as I hate what Plex has been doing in the last period, here Jellyfin is not as good as Plex. Plex tablet and TV UX feels simpler and easier than OOTB Jellyfin, unless you tinker with it or use alternative clients. My parents far prefer Plex's UX.
Also, what grinds my gears the most is that most movies and shows I download, Jellyfin can't detect what content it is, and instead just lists them as raw video files in a folder since it expects a strict naming convention which most torrents don't follow. Plex seems to have a much better content detection engine, probably based on fingerprinting, since it rarely misses, regardless of how fucked the naming convention is.
Also 2, I noticed transcoding on Plex is somehow more power efficient than Jellyfin. When I monitor intel_gpu_top on my 12th gen NUC, Plex hammers the iGPU with far less interrupts than Jellyfin, resulting in noticeably lower power consumption.
No, mostly US/Western productions. Clarkson's Farm, Stargate SG-1 for example.
If anyone is interested I may do a post about this app, but I figure in the AI age you'd probably rather I keep it to myself!
I'm not up to speed on transcoding, but I do notice my web users always have to transcode, assuming due to their native browser playback support for codecs. Local installs of the Jellyfin player seem to avoid this on most systems.
Send them a hostname, username and password. Jellystat is a nice companion app if you like seeing metrics.
every time i've checked in with Jellyfin, the ecosystem has been way too fragmented to consider migrating.
Dolby Vision addresses some of the problems of simpler standards but it is such a botch I wouldn't expect it work at all.
edit: Yup just saw GP's reply and they clearly have opinions about HDR.
Plex broke Dolby Vision. Plex is working fine for me because I'm not using this botched format and don't have a TV which is designed to make sure everything is too dark for you to see anything, the same way Chris Nolan poisoned movies by making sure you can never make out what people are saying.
why did he do that?
I see
See also: idiot directors who shake the camera constantly because it's "realistic," neglecting hundreds of millions of years of evolution geared towards stabilizing vision while moving.
I'd still be happy if Plex could turn things around, but until then Jellyfin seems to be king.
Plex client is available almost everywhere and overall, Plex mostly "just works". The latest Apple TV client changes have me hot and there are things I don't love but that's what's kept me in the Plex ecosystem. I am looking around now though since I'm so disappointed with the new clients/UI.
* a native Xbox app (I believe Jellyfin may now have one)
* non-techie acceptance (Plex seemed more polished at the time, will need to reassess now)
Either way, I'll be warning my spouse that things may be changing soon.
Where Jellyfin lacks, I would encourage contributions so that it lacks less, over time. Hopefully, it will eventually surpass Plex, making Plex redundant while Jellyfin remains open.
(i run Plex and Jellyfin side by side on top of a multi PB library)
Of? Ripped Blu-rays?
Over time, it'll all be served out of archive.org eventually anyway as copyright slowly expires over centuries [1] (life of the creator + 50-70 years lol). We can find more valuable topics to argue about, imho.
[1] HN Search: public domain day - https://hn.algolia.com/?q=public%20domain%20day
I don't know what I'll do going forward. Jellyfin is rough (I've tried!) and especially for external users (family).
https://forums.plex.tv/t/2026-20-0-beta-ios-and-tvos-4k-dovi...
Plex stopped working on any DoVi/HDR10 videos I have, and today I found this thread.
From /r/plex:
https://i.imgur.com/87huC1b.jpeg
https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=comments_s...
fwiw I noticed a while ago their PS4 app refused to play a file, but it was playable in the PlayStation web browser