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I used Plex for my home media for almost a year, then it stopped playing nice for reasons I gave up on diagnosing. While looking at alternatives, I found Jellyfin which is much more responsive, IMO, and the UI is much nicer as well.

It gets relegated to playing Fraggle Rock and Bluey on repeat for my kiddo these days, but I am absolutely in love with the software.

What are some other FOSS gems that are a better experience UX/UI-wise than their proprietary counterparts?

EDIT: Autocorrect turned something into "smaller" instead of what I meant it to be when I wrote this post, and I can't remember what I meant for it to say so it got axed instead.

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[–] tsuica@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Jellyfin would be great if only you could change subtitle colors. With HDR content, having pure white subtitles is eye-scorching.

[–] ayaya@lemdro.id 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That has actually been added into the next release, although there is quite a lot of time between major releases.

[–] tsuica@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Ha, you're right. I'll use Plex till then, but as soon as this feature hits WebOS, I'll switch in a heartbeat. Jellyfin is so much cleaner and faster than Plex.

[–] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

I think there is a way to do that on Android TV. Change the default player from ExoPlayer to libVLC. Then open VLC app and change the subtitle settings. They should be reflected in the Jellyfin app too.

[–] cujo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, I didn't even think of that. I'll have to cross that bridge one day, we're an always-on subtitles kinda family.