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plex or Jellyfin?
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this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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I used Plex for years.
As soon as I tried Jellyfin with a limited section of my library I was immediately finished with Plex.
You owe it to yourself to try jellyfin. It's amazing.
Plex just started requiring a login to my local server. I don't have a plex account, no reason to get one, I only stream locally. Sounds like Jellyfin is the way to go!
Your 4th point is the opposite for me, any kind of subtitles I have on causes transcoding in jellyfin. Its the only thing stopping me from switching fully.
Set "Burn Subtitles" to AUTO and grab the Open Subtitles plugin and make sure you are logged in. Beware opensubtitles.com and opensubtitles.org are different logins.
I'd say about 95% of what I'm playing is playing without transcoding to my LG CX Oled with Jellyfin app on it.
I don't know enough about the triggers for transcoding to know why I'm getting this result, but my server has an obscene GPU in it. I'm not sure if this is a factor.
Interesting that I find number 3 different for me. I have a very heterogeneous library and I find plex better at choosing when to transcode and what quality to transcode.