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I’ve got Jellyfin up and running right now on a DS620Slim NAS and it’s running pretty good so far. I’ve seen a lot of people say they prefer Plex over Jellyfin. What are the main advantages to plex?

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[–] JASN_DE@feddit.de 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are the main advantages to plex?

AFAIK they offer more apps resp. apps for more platforms. Apart from that, nothing really. Maybe a little more idiot-proof.

[–] Wxfisch@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is pretty much it, Plex offers far more client apps that are full featured and they make it super easy to setup and use both as an admin and a user. Especially for things like OTA TV where they provide the guide data once it’s setup (which is why it’s a paid option). I’d move to JellyFin in a heartbeat if they’d support OTA and DVR playback on AppleTV.

[–] 8565@lemmy.quad442.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

.......they do but, you have to supply the schedule. I was using a Home run to pipe OTA tv in but, have since moved to a IPtv provider. Works very very well

[–] Wxfisch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The problem I have is there is no way to playback live tv on AppleTV which is what we use throughout our home. Plex just works and has wife approved first party apps for pretty much everything.

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

If Jellyfin had a good Xbox app I would switch immediately.

[–] jmshrv@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago

In theory it'd be possible to make a Jellyfin UWP app, of course nobody's made one yet. Maybe it could be you ;)