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by magicalhippo 281 days ago
I like Jellyfin, but I keep using Plex for two reasons.

First is subtitle support is quite limited in comparison. It fails more often than it works for me.

Second is the lack of skipping.

This is with the Android TV client, haven't really tried the others.
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JamesSwift 281 days ago
Jellyfin clients are the weakest aspect imo. Sort of hit or miss, and the ios client is inferior to a 3rd party paid offering (infuse)
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0points 281 days ago
> First is subtitle support is quite limited in comparison.

I always watch with subtitles, but haven't noticed worse support in jellyfin vs plex, really. Granted, I mostly use srt/ssa (text based subtitles).

> Second is the lack of skipping.

You just need to install the intro skipper plugin :)

https://github.com/intro-skipper/intro-skipper

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magicalhippo 281 days ago
Hm, I too primarily have srt's. No idea why just says "failed to load" or somesuch and I haven't been arsed to figure out why when I can just hop over to Plex and watch.

That said, I've had a few HDR movies which Jellyfin handled a lot better, so it's a bit here and there.

As for skipping, I primarily skip backwards when I miss dialog (so much mumbling these days), or forward when it's a TV show which has segments I don't care too much about, like say some irrelevant love subplot.

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BowBun 281 days ago
Fair, I handle subtitles in my ingestion pipeline and so those are ready to go by the time Jellyfin gets involved.

Skipping, do you mean skipping intros and such? Or something else?

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magicalhippo 281 days ago
> I handle subtitles in my ingestion pipeline

What do you do? Separate file? Not sure if I've noticed a pattern other than "mostly doesn't work well".

> Skipping, do you mean skipping intros and such?

Sorry, I meant jumping back and forth. On Plex I can just press left/right arrows on the remote, and it jumps a few seconds. On Jellyfin I have to press ok/confirm to actually do the jump. Very annoying.

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theshrike79 280 days ago
The *arr stack is what people usually use.

Bazarr specifically in this case, it can search multiple locations for missing subtitles automatically.

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vachina 281 days ago
Some Plex clients will fail to direct stream DTS + PGS.

Jellyfin somehow just works on all my devices.

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