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[–] dojan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is the point of Plex? I just went straight for Jellyfin and it does everything I need and then some. Is it just that people went with Plex initially and then stuck with it as it got enshittified?

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Plex has better security, federates and shares with other plex servers and generally is less hands-on for transcoding.

But, I don't use it. I like Jellyfin. It's free and while it may lack a few features, it isn't worse by any measure.

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

generally is less hands-on for transcoding.

Yeah, I'm not gonna give you that one. It's a single option that you toggle. Wanna use your nvidia GPU? Enable NVENC. AMD gpu/cpu? AMF. Intel CPU? QSV.

Really not that hard...

[–] Laser@feddit.org 1 points 1 year ago

Plex has better security, federates and shares with other plex servers and generally is less hands-on for transcoding.

Regarding security, it'd be interesting to see how secure it actually is. Yeah, the individual endpoints might be protected better, but is Plex the company maybe a single point of failure?