Plex vs Jellyfin | Home Media Server Comparison

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A quick overview of the differences of managing Plex and Jellyfin Home Media Servers - primarily from the perspective of of a Linux administrator.
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@LearningTech96 Жыл бұрын

Watching this at the end of July in 2023 and crazy seeing all the features Jellyfin has now that either weren’t available or “soon” during this presentation is a solid testament to the community building it out, and also shows how much of a quality competitor is still is to plex. I recently switched to only Jellyfin and am happy with its use so far

@HardcoreNacho 2 жыл бұрын

You can allow local connection without authentication to allow the ability to use the server when offline. Very easy to do.

@CozumelTy 2 жыл бұрын

This is correct.

@mkk7906 2 жыл бұрын

The desktop app has trouble with local network discovery. In my case, to avoid transcoding h265 for a browser because of hosting on a wee raspberry, you need to be logged in for the client to connect to the local server. No option to manually configure the server's address on the client.

@Ionknomen Жыл бұрын

Plex is much user friendly. But the only reason I dropped it for Jellyfin is simple. It's because you can stream hi-res audio through Jellyfin. As someone who is into audio. This is a big win.

@thomasbarca9297 Жыл бұрын

I’ve used Jellyfin for a while and I love it, after getting frustrated with plex I tried others and I found Jellyfin is the best option

@michaelknight37 Жыл бұрын

🤔 how does anyone find this statement useful? what frustrated you when using plex? how does Jellyfin handle the same task? What makes jellyfin the best option?

@richardlee8546 2 жыл бұрын

we are so lucky someone made a nice presentation and shared it online. Thanks

@JaredMcDonald-CS 2 жыл бұрын

Appreciate the support! May be revisiting in the future due to a lot of changes on both platforms!

@franklinan 2 жыл бұрын

Great video ! Thanks for your structured presentation. Congrats

@RONNIEAST 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info Jared. I currently run a Plex server and thinking about setting up Jellyfin as well

@CRAZYHORSE19682003 Жыл бұрын

Question, in my personal media collection I have all 4 seasons of Spartacus. Neither Plex or Jellyfin "See" the first season. The files are there but neither media server can see them. The mini series Shogun, Plex doesn't "See" it but Jellyfin does. Does anyone know why and or how to fix that?

@rohitprat 2 жыл бұрын

this was insightful, thanks

@vz3_ 2 жыл бұрын

Having run Plex for a few years but getting my patience tested when it comes to stalling when I fast forward or rewind, had been looking into Jellyfin with the hopes of running it as a fallback; exactly the use case you recommended here. Looking forward to giving it a spin.

@JoshCano 2 жыл бұрын

that sounds like a hardware issue

@michaelknight37 Жыл бұрын

also, if you add content to your plex watchlist it will download the media for viewing whenever (ie. when flying on plane, etc.)

@bicivelo 2 жыл бұрын

Damn. Quality video. Thanks!

@johnknightiii1351 2 жыл бұрын

I don't know why I didn't think of using both. Plex is great for the client app on my chromecast and sharing to family. Jellyfin has all the fun plug-ins. Thanks for the video!

@thomasarreola9474 2 жыл бұрын

This was wonderful

@husseinm.5660 Жыл бұрын

thank you very much bro, excellent slides

@sora1099 Жыл бұрын

Great info! thank you for sharing

@flyerfocus6259 Жыл бұрын

Gotta ask, Why are you forcing your voice to sound like an airline pilot?

@johanklausen 2 жыл бұрын

thanks for a good comparison of plex and jellyfin

@MidnightMustang Жыл бұрын

You can still directly access Plex content by assigning your Plex PC's/server's IP into their respective apps, and still access content with the internet kicked out.

@PANDA-fv6bi Жыл бұрын

I want to use Jellyfin but it’s having issues on my fire stick. I can’t fast forward or rewind anything. Fire stick is my main concern since I always watch movies on my tv.

@mail4mahbub 2 жыл бұрын

Is there any way I can play all my clips in a folder ( short videos I shot in vacation ) one after another (autoplay) without making a playlist? Thanks.

@bryangt7 Жыл бұрын

I remeber autoplay option in jellyfin.

@Nicolo-ue9xu Жыл бұрын

Jellyfin can do that but I think even Plex can

@RichardErkens Жыл бұрын

I have Plex and tried jellyfin on my windows system. Results: Needed 3 installs to finally get it working. One movie folder added without a problem, after that no folders I try to add show up. Installed app doesn't find the server automatically on the network. Tried 5 different movies where jellyfin was only be able to play one. So the windows version is not that good in my opinion. I would suggest Kodi or Plex with a lifetime pass as they work as expected

@strelok_ 2 жыл бұрын

Great Video

@JaredMcDonald-CS 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, taking a look at TrueNAS later this week!

@oldaccount7463 2 жыл бұрын

Hopefully in 5 or so years jellyfin will surpass Plex in terms of more available clients, a better download/sync option on mobile device, a player that can handle more codecs and overall a more polished expiernce.

@equu497 2 жыл бұрын

Seeing as it's open source, I wouldn't be surprised if Jellyfin overtook Plex in 2 years time

@oldaccount7463 2 жыл бұрын

@@equu497 Hopefully

@cheekonv 2 жыл бұрын

I liked jellyfin till I heard it transcoded live tv

@steelguru 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Much!

@jbingbao 2 жыл бұрын

good video!

@TomMartinek Жыл бұрын

No Apple TV client? Unfortunately that's a deal breaker for me.... I'll check back in a few years.

@mikeclarke3005 Жыл бұрын

But then for me, anything apple is a deal breaker for me LoL , do not now and never will again use anything tied to apple.

@TomMartinek Жыл бұрын

@@mikeclarke3005 I respect your opinion even though I disagree with you. Who thought that was possible on the internet? Have a good day friend.

@lollington_bear Жыл бұрын

I've ben trying out Jellyfin over xmas, and it was very fast and had a nice look and feel. The features and configuration options are way better than Plex for sure. However! The login page needs improvement to make it more slick and easy for no technical users (it needs to present a keypad to enter a pin not a full keyboard). The Samsung App has to be sideloaded, and doesn't support the pause button on the remotes. On all devices Jellyfin had an issue where it wanted to transcod several videos that plex plays on the same device without the need to transcode. So in short I think Jellyfin has a way to go before it is mature enough to universally replace Plex, but I really liked it and I wanted it to work, so I'll be trying it again next year for sure.

@johnwillemsen6872 Жыл бұрын

It doesn't phone home. I can still use Plex when disconnected from the internet.

@garybarnacle808 2 жыл бұрын

You can use plex without the internet on your local network all you have to do is enter the players ip address into the server settings and it works fine and when setup like this you dont need to login so some older tv sets that have plex apps but dont have the ability to login still work

@appsbyaaron Жыл бұрын

Freaking OUTSTANDING comparisons!!!! As of Sept 2022 does Apple TV support Jellyfin?

@JaredMcDonald-CS Жыл бұрын

The best current solution is called Infuse which supports Jellyfin but is not a first party solution. I use Roku, but I have heard good things

@hisfantor Жыл бұрын

I have Plex running on my Ubuntu desktop and I can still use it without internet connection on localhost

@AndrewDeFaria 2 жыл бұрын

At 13:04 - I'm confused. You're running the Plex server. The internet goes out. You try to view things via Plex and you can't. Well it occurs to me that if you're running the Plex server then you have the files locally. Just fire up VLC and watch your media? What's the problem here? ("BTW I just NFS mount my media directories onto my Linux desktop etc. as /Videos so it's a breeze.

@DanteBarba Жыл бұрын

If you want to watch a movie in your living room and you loose internet connection you can still ping your home server (NAS) without internet. In that case you'd allegedly loose access to your Plex Server. Anyway that's not correct because you can point your Plex client to the servers local IP address and it will keep working even without internet.

@tomsontung Жыл бұрын

thank you for the video, your summery on the features are nice and details. It will be even better if you are able to compare the client software as well. I recently tested both in the QNAP NAS, Jellyfin works fine within in the NAS via Docker. After a week of comparison, I decided to stick with PLEX even I‘m not a paid user. PLEX clients are just snappier and there are cases that PLEX client can do direct streaming while Jellyfin requires heavy transcoding (I tested with H.265 4K videos.)

@nutritionperfection Жыл бұрын

What player were you using? Usually you can avoid it with the vlc player or what most people do is integrate with Kodi to avoid it but I'm not a huge fan of kodi so I choose not to.

@tomsontung Жыл бұрын

@@nutritionperfection I use PLEX and Jellyfin clients on my LG TV, and sometimes web client (Chrome or Safari) on my MacBook M1. The navigation of PLEX is always snappier no matter it is on the TV apps or browsers. Also, Jellyfin may sometimes do unnecessary x265 transcoding that I cannot avoid when I played via the browser. Personally I tend to avoid PLEX, but Jellyfin just need a bit of polishing in the front-end to provide the best user experience.

@nutritionperfection Жыл бұрын

@@tomsontung yeah the web player doesn’t quite offer the compatibility I’d like. I’m mostly running it through the android app on a fire stick and it works well in that config using the Vlc player. Responsiveness is fine for me as compared to plex but it likely depends on the client being used. I migrated from plex recently because I prefer FOSS and am happy but there are def areas they still need some work on.

@chefbennyj 2 жыл бұрын

Wait... Did you say emby was an "older" media server? 🤦‍♂️

@tradeo8899 2 жыл бұрын

Anyone ever tell you you look like Michael Jackson? It’s uncanny! Subbed!

@shokoy6663 Жыл бұрын

Been running Plex for years paid a one time fee of $4.99 . Yesterday my media server stopped working, keeps telling me to DL it , did it 8 time no go! , So I'm done with PLex . Jellyfin is my Home Media Server now, took awhile to configure , but I got it down now.

@mcbeenb 2 жыл бұрын

Tried jellyfin, found it to be too slow to be usable. Scans take ages, lib loading takes 30 sec to a min. Same hardware, plex has zero lag. I even gave it a few days to settle.