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I hope this brings more platform maturity and adoption of jellyfin. Tried it like a year ago and was really unhappy with subtitles and overall accessibility.
I’ve had lifetime plex for a long time and it’s been worth it for a thing that still mostly just works and is not an app I need to side load or jailbreak, I want jellyfin to have that and beat out plex - it wouldn’t be hard.
This $750 nonsense just sounds like a cash grab because they are losing market share though. I remember hellgate london’s lifetime sub.
This isn’t the move you pull if you’re losing market share. This is the move you pull when you’ve got a big enough market share.
Can't speak to whatever else you may have experienced, but subtitles have seen significant improvement over the last year or so.
If I remember with subtitles there wasn't a way to source them in the app or swap to ones that might have different timings unless you downloaded them yourself manually. Did that change or am I remembering wrong?
I don't believe this is an option yet unfortunately. I think jellyfin is great and will always keep using it over plex, but I agree the subtitle management is not great.
There's a plugin that can do that, but it requires a little setup and an external account.
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/plugins/open-subtitles/
My subtitles are awesome. Except on Roku, the official Jellyfin app is lacking. But Jellyrock is pretty great.