when are they going to completely drop the lifetime license? they must at some point right?
this post was submitted on 11 May 2026
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jellyfin just runs and looks better, too
One thing is the price, a whole another thing is the cluttered UI with too many features. I just want play a movie/tv series. Switched to Jellyfin and not looking back.
Just hope Jelly doesnt suffer the same fate. 🙂
Jellyfin was created by just such a move and nobody talks about Emby any more.
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Jellyfin is nice that even a noob like me can struggle a bit but get it working. :)
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If I was starting new today I'd go for Jellyfin but my family is all set up for Plex now and I'm not going through that painful process again :D
Yep. I have a lifetime sub to Plex anyway, and I don't want to deal with the pain of giving my in-laws access
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Plex stopped being useful to me in 2019. At the time I had only about 300 movies and the same number of TV episodes. The database kept getting corrupt, causing long load times of video info pages, or perpetual spinning progress indicator. After fixing the database (and losing all watch metadata each time) three times in one year, I moved to a plain file share served from the NAS with Kodi running on my Nvidia Shield.
In seven years, Kodi's local DB has never corrupted. I now have 900+ movies and 2500 TV episodes. I can handle any file type, any video CODEC, can play thousands of games from the internet game library. The DB can be easily backed up and imported into a new install if needed.
And the best part? I didn't pay anyone to access any of the media I own, and no corpo gets access to my library or watch history.
Forget Plex.
I run Jellyfin for myself and Plex for others. The Jellyfin android tv app almost pushed me back to Plex, but Wholpin works quite well.
+1 for Wholphin, it's so good! I wish it was the default app.
Last time I compared the Plex handled finding and using subtitles so much more user friendly than Jellyfin.
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when making a media server i first went for plex. but when i heard it costs money to view my own files in 4k i had to use jellyfin instead