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Plex is overhauling its apps with a redesign and under-the-hood upgrades (www.engadget.com)

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[–] Amius@pawb.social 45 points 1 month ago (28 children)

I used plex for years and years with my lifetime license, but a few years ago I felt Plex was way too bloated and swapped to Jellyfin. I don't think about Plex now unless an article mentions it. There's no feature of functionality I notice that's missing, and I have a low tolerance for dealing with troubleshooting when I want to relax.

[–] wrekone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Right now, Jellyfin is still too buggy and feature-poor for my tastes. I can't imagine trying to convince my friends and family to use it instaed of Plex. Jellyfin shows a lot of promise though. Hopefully it won't be too long before I'm comfotable making the switch. I suppose Plex might force my hand before that.

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

What is feature poor about it?

[–] myliltoehurts@lemm.ee 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Not OP but there were 3 things that made me switch back after about 2 weeks (around 5 months ago):

Lack of intro and credit skipping (I think they're working towards it tho?). There was an add-on but it just wasn't a comparable experience
Poor options to customize subtitle display (wasn't even looking for much, just a black outline and maybe bolder font). I forget the detail about what was missing at this point, just remember being annoyed with it.
The android app on TV just felt like they never considered it may be used with a remote (some buttons and menus in annoying to reach places, like the alphabet for quickly jumping in a library). Also felt like there were 3-4 differently bad screens for browsing the library rather than 1 good one.

It's very impressive how good they made jellyfin with volunteer effort, it's just very tough to compete with paid staff (in terms of how much time can they put into each feature and part). I do hope it gets there, cuz plex has been circling the drain for a while for me now.

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Hrm, my Plex experience (which made me jellyfin) was that it would reliably shit the bed every few watching sessions, usually just hanging mid video and making me reset the cast. I'll agree the subs are for shit tho, plenty that get rendered below the border, and the app is slow...but once I start playing a show it works so I was content. Maybe worth rechecking Plex.

[–] myliltoehurts@lemm.ee 1 points 4 weeks ago

Interesting, for all its faults I have found Plex to work very reliably for playback.

You can also try emby, it has its own different faults but I've found it better for my above issues than jellyfin. I remember finding something else with it which made me go back to Plex again, but it escapes me what it was.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 weeks ago

Even my mother can use it.
The only issues I encountered so far is playback on my chromecast dongle with the embedded player refusing to play nicely with some files/subtitles.

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