[Cyph0n]

It’s an excellent OSS project. One of the few I have donated to.

In my experience, the majority of people who complain loudly about Jellyfin are tied up in the Plex ecosystem and cannot fathom leaving it for some reason.

I mean, imagine living with ad-supported streaming content being injected into your private instance by default and having to tell your users to opt-out of that. Admittedly, it is hard to leave such a slippery slope of an ecosystem, especially as a paying customer.

[SamuelAdams]

I tried switching to Jellyfin. But the feature parity between Plex and Jellyfin just isn’t there. This was roughly 6-9 months ago.

I have a 5.1 surround sound setup with Dolby atmos and 4k HDR 10 with Nvidia Shield Pro android TVs as clients. I have Blu-ray rips that play completely fine on Plex, but stutter, have no sound, or downscale to 2.0 sound on JellyFin.

There are some fixes that involve using a JellyFin server and a Kodi media client on Google TV’s. This does enable DTS and Ddd+ sound. While that technically works, it is very involved and feels like many more steps than just using Plex.

If you use a basic 1080p tv with two speakers and lazy encodes of media, Jellyfin probably works great for you. If you have anything a little more complex then you will inevitably see some problems.

This is similar to other open source projects like Ashai. The basic features are easy enough to build, but the more complicated use cases always require more time and effort, and people aren’t always willing to do that complicated extra effort for free.

[zeagle]

I’m lucky, I have a tube 2019 running jellyfin into a 5.1.2 setup through my avr and DTS/atmos + HDR10/DV work with jellyfin. I switched from kodi a few years. Do you have Dolby processing and up mix 2.0 turned off in the shield settings? Those cause stutters and some issues for me.

[Cyph0n]

The client story is lacking for sure. But they seem to be prioritizing that now. Regardless, what they’ve achieved as an OSS Emby fork is astonishing imo.

On Apple TV, Infuse bridges the client gap. I personally prefer paying for a third-party client (for now) to paying for a media server that locks transcoding behind a paywall and ties my private server to a remote service. YMMV of course.

[nativeit]

Are there a lot of people complaining loudly about Jellyfin?

[Cyph0n]

Yes, I see this quite frequently on r/selfhosted and r/plex.

[speff]

Where on /r/selfhosted?

In the last week, most of the posts are pro-Jellyfin[0][1][2] - nearing anti-plex.

https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1ilqh6u/one_yea...

https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1ip8twc/jellyfi...

https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1iaqqv9/jellyfi...

[Cyph0n]

I have been reading the subreddit for years. I don’t bookmark threads or comments for later review. And I made it clear upfront that this is my personal impression.

[Larrikin]

>I feel it in my gut despite evidence that I'm wrong

Plex users are all people who are fine self hosting and all the problems with that. Plex lifetime pass holders are invested for 75 dollars. Nobody is entrenched or unwilling to switch if something is better.

Maybe some people also run AdGuard/PiHole on their entire network and block all of the injected ads/tracking that Plex and your employer inject into our lives. We know that companies will always have people doing negative things and try to take the good and fight against the bad.

Maybe you are just overvaluing something that most people don't. Or its a problem only if you just lay down and let advertising invade your home.

[Cyph0n]

Cherrypicked threads from the last week from one of two subreddits I mentioned is now “evidence”? Low bar eh.