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Well I already have jellyfin running in a container, just have to figure out how to get mum's TV to work with it I guess

log in on a local IP and not the network name and it's working again. but I'll be moving to jellyfin from now

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[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Jellyfin or Emby.

What’s plex better at?

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

If I’m not mistaken Emby started to do some sketchy stuff which birthed Jellyfin.

[–] MrNobody@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 23 hours ago

Getting people to pay to watch their locally stored media?

[–] quid_pro_joe@infosec.pub 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I think the GUI is more refined and the initial setup a bit easier for casual users. I'm a Jellyfin user, because my online entertainment budget is exactly $0.

[–] candyman337@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah it took me a few hours of research and plugin setup to get feature parity with Plex, and then even so I don't have anything to replace plexamp yet

[–] kadotux@sopuli.xyz 2 points 13 hours ago

Not sure how features compare, but finamp exists for jellyfin if you're looking for a jellyfin-music-player-thingy