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I've feel like I've used Plex forever. I also feel like every couple years I try Jellyfin to see how it's going. Recently I tried it again because of Plex restriction on more than one user.

Well, I just tried it again and it's substantially improved! This time it actually properly detected most of my library!

Also the Android TV app is AWESOME! No more glitches, lagging, and freezing trying to play my stuff like Plex did. It is butter smooth.

Wow! I'm impressed and I just deleted Plex. Good riddance.

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 2 years ago

Jellyfin seems solid.

The only issues I've had are with dodgy media files. Obviously better player hardware gets you better performance, but transcoding eliminates some of those issues.

[-] burrito@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Yep same. I got an Intel Arc card for transcoding and it plays on anything perfectly now.

btw intel QSV on iGPUs is actually crazy, you can put a little intel cpu from like 12th gen and it'll decode and encode most content for you perfectly fine, unless you're extremely picky about tone mapping and color space (idk in that case, i don't have super strenuous content requirements lol)

the arc cards are even better, but not needing an entire GPU for decoding/encoding is SO nice for smaller homelabs.

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