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People who are staying on Plex, have you tried Jellyfin? What about it do you not prefer? (real question) (discuss.online)

submitted 1 month ago by kiol@discuss.online to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Honest question, because I know multiple people who are not looking to jump ship since they already have the Plex Pass.

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[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I have both. Plex for family and Jellyfin for me. I still don't have hardware transcoding working (probably a permission thing. It's always permissions) and haven't had much time to tinker this year. Plex just... worked.

I can use Jellyfin without transcoding, but only one or two users at a time is all my CPU can handle.

[–] kiol@discuss.online 3 points 1 month ago

Same, directplay at 1080

[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Are you running it on baremetal or in a VM?

[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Both are docker containers. It can detect the card, but ffmpeg crashes with an error and that's as far as I got.

I haven't given up, life just got busy for a bit as often happens.

[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Okay, I haven't tried using docker, so I can't help directly, but I set up my Plex server with help from Jellyfin documentation. You could probably find something in there about setting up hardware acceleration on docker, if you haven't already. They should work with Plex, as well.

[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, HW works on Plex just fine.

[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Oh wait, I guess I completely misread what you said lol