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I just want Findroid to support transcoding. I hate that the official app is very obviously just a webview - I mean if I couldn't tell then I wouldn't care, but it doesn't feel very native and behaves slightly glitchy when navigating around. Sometimes instead of scrolling, the webview does the little "stretch bounce" overscroll thing. I wish they could get an experienced android dev to make a polished native-feeling app.

I honestly feel like 99% of my aesthetic issues with jellyfin would be solved by having the Overseer devs do a redesign. Overseer looks amazing and I tried to make a jellyfin theme to copy it and Plex, but found that not enough elemts had classes for me to select with CSS so I gave up. Jellyfin vue looks pretty good but suffers the same problem as third party apps - being under heavy development with lots of missing features (last I checked I couldn't get subtitle selection to work)

Here's a bonus one: why does the Plex search results look so much better??

I've still got my Plex up, I only use it for Plexamp though, and my brother watches stuff on it (lifetime pass since forever). I quit watching stuff on it because in order to log in you have to hit Plex's servers (even when logging in directly to the self hosted server); that doesn't work for me because we block them at work. If they would let me use my own IdP, I'd probably stay. At least with Jellyfin I can authenticate how I want.

Ive been using Plex for a few years. No pass. Desktop all the media is on, tv with a Chromecast. Android and iOS phones, both with Plex apps where I cast to the tv from.

The old app worked fine.

The new Plex app has issues with this. Some titles just won't cast, you press play and it goes back to menu. I have to go to the desktop and cast from the Plex server page to the same tv and it works.

It's frustrating.

I tried to switch, about a year ago. Playback stuttered and or completely failed more often than not, on content which worked fine as-is in Plex.

Jellyfin crashes when living next to Plex in Docker, something about grabbing the same transcoder or something - I forget I’m pretty removed now.

But if I can’t run in parallel, I can’t eventually make the switch, since I can’t get started. And it’s not a great time to pick up a second box just for testing.