• Osiris@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Jellyfins pretty great. It’s much simpler than Plex and has quite a few less features, but it does what it does really well

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      11 months ago

      What are some missing features? I’m only familiar with jellyfin

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        11 months ago

        Iirc Plex supports transcoding for downloads, while Jellyfin only allows downloading the original file. But I’ve heard transcoding downloads is broken on Plex, so ymmv.

        Intro skip is only available as a plugin on Jellyfin.

        Also, Findroid has a better ui and supports downloads, while the official app has more features (ie. settings/admin panel).

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          11 months ago

          Didn’t know about findroid, looks cool

          I’ll probably keep both installed

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            11 months ago

            Thats because if you get it from f-droid, it is on Izzy’s repo and there only the 32 bit version is available. The Pixel 7 is 64 bit only.

            I have the same issue, solved it by using obtainium and getting the package directly from their github.

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              11 months ago

              Sure enough, that fixed it, thanks.

              What’s the deal with devs not keeping up with FDroid repos?

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                11 months ago

                Izzys repo is not fdroid. And the developers never managed to put it themselves on fdroid. So its a mess of many things.

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        11 months ago

        Whilst some might not find it a huge deal, not being able to shuffle all episodes of a specific TV show is a deal breaker for me. I do have Jellyfin deployed and configured, ready to go for when the feature arrives. Plex feels a lot more polished as well, but I can get over that.

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      11 months ago

      Sadly in the 4 years I’m using it jellyfin still couldn’t figure out how to correctly display series season covers and has some streaming bugs (no audio when audio is DTS and PGS subs are enabled ect)

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        You should redo your org from scratch and let all the default plugins do the work. Mine looks great and I never changed anything, just followed the recommended file org pattern for Movies and TV Shows.

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          11 months ago

          Yup! Somewhere along the line they improved how it tags and fetches show Metadata. Now the default setup is great

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          11 months ago

          Exactly. 99% of these issues are not naming the files as Jellyfin needs, which I understand can be annoying if you have a large number of files to move to it. And having the right access permissions for files, if you are on Linux.

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            11 months ago

            Filebot is nice for that, it is what I used when I first got into Plex and realized the reason I had so many problems is because of the way I named files. This was before I even knew Sonarr and Radarr existed, now you can get them to do it.