Now I tried watching several movies on iPhone via Plex app and it kept freezing and I had to exit and start again and half the time it wouldn’t remember where I was. I tried to watch the same movies on Jellyfin, again on iPhone and no issue.

Any thoughts? I did watch a movie at my friends on Plex through Firestick with no issue so not sure if it’s iOS or my home network and Plex or something else.

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[–] fennec@lemm.ee -1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Jellyfin is avaliable on almost everything as far as I am aware (excluding games consoles). Havent used Plex much but I know for Jellyfin the majority of my users issues relate to iOS. Id check your encoding of the specific file they have issue with M series macs can be weird with certain encodes of h.264 for example or a specific audio type. Here is a decent breakdown of codec support by client/browser https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/codec-support/

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Jellyfin isn't available for Samsung TVs or Hisense TVs. Yes, this can be solved by any Android TV box but they likely don't want to.

I've given someone a FireTV stick and they still used the built in OS until I gave it to someone else. (And then they wonder why I can't do anything about ads for them, but that's besides the point.)

[–] wjs018@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most of my plex users stream via Playstation, an area where Jellyfin has essentially been locked out. I let my users know how they can access my Jellyfin for the upcoming loss of remote play, but almost all of them opted to just pay the $2/mo to keep using their Playstation client.

[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I use my PS4 all the time with Jellyfin with no issues. Just have to open it in the browser.

[–] wjs018@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

Ah, I'll have to try that out. I kind of forgot that the Playstation even has a browser.