I have been using Jellyfin for over a year, brilliant thing. Makes it very easy to stream my media; I have one client catered to music, and the main one for movies/TV shows.
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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| HA | Home Assistant automation software |
| ~ | High Availability |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
8 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 12 acronyms.
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I run Jellyfin for myself and Plex for others. The Jellyfin android tv app almost pushed me back to Plex, but Wholpin works quite well.
+1 for Wholphin, it's so good! I wish it was the default app.
when making a media server i first went for plex. but when i heard it costs money to view my own files in 4k i had to use jellyfin instead
I run both side by side and I'm very thankful that Plex exists. Jellyfin is my backup app and would be very painful to get setup in my families houses.