The Jellyfin apps are also much better than they used to be. I'd say easily on par with Plex now (the native Jellyfin client and the music app, finamp).

To me, it seems like a really hard sell when Jellyfin effectively does everything that the paid service does for free.

[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I do think it's weird that Plex decided to put hardware transcoding behind a paid membership, so that's obviously a negative, but it sounds like the argument for jellyfin is that it's free but you get less. That's ok, I'm not dragging jellyfin through the mud on this, but you have to admit many people think their Plex purchase is worth it compared to jellyfin.

[–] bigbangdangler@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago

As I said, I don't think it's worth it. And that's OK -- we can disagree.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 0 points 1 month ago

Remote access is the single area where Plex is better.

Saying things like this is laughable. JellyFin is basically temu plex, better at pretty much nothing other than being open source. At best it matches it in some ways, at worst it is significantly worse and lacking features.

Everything about Jellyfin is free. This includes hardware transcoding, which is subscription based on Plex.

If the server owner has a lifetime pass, theres no subscription fee needed by anyone. Hardware transcoding on Plex is also significantly better than on JellyFin.

The Jellyfin apps are also much better than they used to be.

But still trash compared to plex.

To me, it seems like a really hard sell when Jellyfin effectively does everything that the paid service does for free.

Again, apart from easy and secure remote streaming.