Selfhosted

The lack of library sharing is what's keeping me on Plex.

The ability to watch media across servers, and even transparently pull it for local transcode when necessary is just an amazing feature.

Tried Jellyfin. It puked when it saw my library.

I bought plex lifetime years ago when it was like 125.

I still hate the new plex app ui on roku. It's clunky and sucks. The alternative is to break my library in sections and hope something else will maybe work.

I'm in the throes of attempting a migration from Plex (lifetime pass, here) to Jellyfin, and my main issue is echoed elsewhere: It's a headache to set up secure external access. My users would either need a new account through some auth gate I'd have to set up & manage, or I'd have to wire everyone up through wireguard or something they'd have to remember a password for and blah blah blah.

Plex is the only thing my home server is sharing. I don't have anything directly exposed to the external internet. In any case I can think of, doing this "right" means extra steps (on top of new steps) for my current users, plus new security concerns & added user management for myself.

I have both. Plex for family and Jellyfin for me. I still don't have hardware transcoding working (probably a permission thing. It's always permissions) and haven't had much time to tinker this year. Plex just... worked.

I can use Jellyfin without transcoding, but only one or two users at a time is all my CPU can handle.

Kodi yo... Although my YouTube addon stopped working recently. aggg...

I tried Jellyfin and had some issues with it. I tried out Emby and everything was smooth sailing. Paid for premium and been using it ever since.

It’s a bit better supported on TVs than Jellyfin.

Never actually used or paid for plex

No free Apple TV app is kind of a deal-breaker. Even Emby has one. Also the Roku app still crashes fairly regularly for me just randomly either browsing or during playback.

I'd love to use it fulltime but I don't want to have to buy new devices just to use it. Plex already works and I picked up a lifetime pass when it wasn't insanely priced.

After 22 hours and 291 comments, I can see that 80% is sunk cost, 15% never bothered to look at their Jellyfin client's settings, and the rest use a device that doesn't have a client for Jellyfin yet.

Admittedly this was 4 years ago, but the lack of documentation was frustrating. I don't know if remote streaming or transcoding was even a thing back then, but I could find little to nothing about much of anything. Now I just don't have the time. I switched to Stremio + plugins for TV and movies, and I'm content to keep using Plexamp for my vinyl rips until it stops working.