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[–] lol_idk@piefed.social 42 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] PoliteDudeInTheMood@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I know Lemmy is obsessed with Jellyfin, but alot of us have lifetime memberships to Plex, and will switch when hell freezes over.

Wait until you see what they did to the Roku UI.

So Jellyfin... How hard is it to migrate from Plex?

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Wait until you see what they did to the Roku UI.

What about it? Genuinely... I've been using Rokus longer than Plex, what's the issue with the Roku version?

[–] lol_idk@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It took me just a few minutes to set up. 4 folders, TV, Videos, Movies, Music

[–] kratoz29@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

It would take me more than a few minutes to set up remote access VPN-less, Arr stack and Riven/Zurg to it...

But hey, as a Plex Pass lifetime user Jellyfin still looks like a good second option.

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sorry, did you mean a lifetime membership to Jellyfin? Because I don't think there is such a thing...

[–] BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago

The lifetime membership to Jellyfin is on Github in the form of a GPL license and the source code. I've got a lifetime membership to Jellyfin and it didn't cost me a dime.

[–] eclipse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I didn't have to pay for Jellyfin, I think you got scammed.

[–] PoliteDudeInTheMood@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nah, I bought it years ago, and have enjoyed the experience for the better part of a decade.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not shitting on jellyfin. But Plex is just the superior experience. I've used jellyfin alongside Plex for a couple years and while it's very useful for sharing content I don't want my family to see in my Plex libraries. It just doesn't have the polish that Plex has. There's definitely potential, and I look forward to where it goes as the project matures. Like all companies, Plex will goto shit eventually, we all know it. The past couple of months have brought annoying changes and I expect them to continue to enshittify the service. But until that time comes I will continue to prefer Plex.

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[–] SchadeMarmelade@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

Erst vor kurzem gewechselt. Geht schon gut, diese Geleefloße

[–] cm0002@piefed.world 3 points 1 week ago

Jellyfin, unfortunately failed the spouse test when I last tried last year.

Besides, I don't think for this particular case it would help much, they both pull their data from the same places iirc

[–] vodka@feddit.org 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

The worst I've experienced so far is Panty And Stocking S2. Here's a copy paste of what I explained to someone using my plex asking why it was so fucked.

E01 is a single episode

E02 and E03 are one episode in the west and on japanese streaming(E02), but it airs on TV as two episodes in japan

E04, E05, E06 are also one episode in the west and jp streaming(E03), but airs on TV as three episodes in japan

E07, E08, E09 are also one episode in the west and jp streaming(E04), but airs on TV as three episodes in japan

E10, E11, E12, are also one episode in the west and jp streaming(E05), but airs on TV as three episodes in japan

E13 is a single episode, but it's episode 13 for TV broadcast, and 6 for streaming..

E14 and E15 are also one episode in the west and jp streaming(E07), but airs on TV as two episodes in japan

[–] Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't see the problem. If the files are named properly, software like sonarr will have no problem organising it. You just name the file S02E4-E6 etc.

[–] chaos@beehaw.org 8 points 1 week ago

That is indeed the right way to do it, unfortunately Plex doesn't handle it well. It'll show all the episodes separately, but each one plays the entire file (fair, it doesn't know for sure where the breaks are, but could be done better), and watching the whole thing marks only the one you selected as watched, so you have to mark all the other "episodes" as watched manually (this is annoying, if it knows you watched the whole file, it should know that you've watched all the episodes it covers).

Usually if an episode is a 2 parter in one file, I'll just name it for part 1 since you'd watch them together anyway, but for cartoons the two parts are usually entirely unrelated, so it really only works properly if the file's split. It'd be better if the interface at least showed that a range of episodes are combined so you could, say, start it and know that the episode you want needs to be scrubbed through to find it, and also if it marked them all as played when you watch the whole thing.

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[–] arararagi@ani.social 6 points 1 week ago

I'm so glad I don't catalog my downloaded stuff.

[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I recently switched to using shoko to handle scanning/metadata etc instead of hama/ass and it’s been working pretty well.

[–] vodka@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My main issue is that I use Sonarr which uses tvdb as backend.

If an alternative to sonarr existed that could also integrate with Overseerr I'd be on that instantly, but sadly there is nothing like that.

Having to manually handle shows my friends and family want to watch us not happening.

[–] fry@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

If an alternative to sonarr existed

Flexget, Medusa

Overseerr

Ombi

The *arr stack is an abomination.

Having to manually handle shows my friends and family want to watch us not happening.

Your providing a free service, right?.... Dont forget to enjoy it yourself. Unless you serve 100 "friends" like everyone else. Then enjoy the money.

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[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Oh god, I love the anime but yeah I can understand that their super loosey-goosey style of episodes would be p bad if you wanted super detailed organizing. The place I've been watching them just groups the content into a single episode, since they effectively are broadcast as one single piece, just with (potentially) multiple chapters.

[–] polakkenak@feddit.dk 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I (partially) blame tvdb for this mess. SpongeBob has every story listed as a separate episode, but good luck finding any source that doesn't bundle these up.

Meanwhile, the list for Kaguya just bundles all stories aired together in a single episode (thankfully).

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This is a very niche meme. I love it.

[–] SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Futurama is also a pain to organize.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Same with Kitchen Nightmares (Gordon Ramsay)

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[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because of the movies split into episodes?

I have the French dub, which has a very different broadcast order.

S03E12 in French might be S02E22 in English, while S03E13 is part one of a special episode (so... S00E04, p1).

No one had published a conversion guide yet,so I ended up playing each file up through the title credits, to determine the new watch order.

[–] splendoruranium@infosec.pub 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I raise you multi-language content or a mixed Australian/US-Broadcast Mythbusters collection 😐

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

And I raise you Pokémon. Holy mother of fuck that's messed up. Some episodes switched around for foreign distribution, some removed, and two seasons put into one, making the entire ordering one season and three episodes off. Had to manually edit nearly everything after Sonarr tagged them because Sonarr used the UK tvdb ordering iirc (the UK removed a couple episodes) but my source used Japan (scene) and Emby used US tvdb. Something like that

Feast your eyes on this shitshow (use desktop mode if on mobile)

[–] splendoruranium@infosec.pub 6 points 1 week ago

Feast your eyes on this shitshow (use desktop mode if on mobile)

Ouch, my condolences.
It's fascinating that it took me longer to scroll through that than most people have or ever will spend on watching the show.

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[–] blueworld@piefed.world 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Just give up and get streamlined mythbusters. Easier to watch anyway.

I've heard they're called smyths on reddit and there's a complete collection in some thread over there.

r/smyths/comments/8gix4w/streamlined_mythbusters_complete_may_2018_update

[–] splendoruranium@infosec.pub 1 points 5 days ago

That sounds interesting, I'll have a look!

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's the difference?
Sounds like a fan cut release

[–] blueworld@piefed.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Each myth is contiguous in each episode rather than being interweaved. Much more satisfying.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The initial idea is probably to extend the viewers interest over the whole episode rather than pick what you wanted to see.
Works more for linear tv. Not so much for VoD.

Thanks for the insight :)

Also, repetitions are removed and some of the fluff (though sometimes a bit too much of the fluff has been removed according to some opinions I read once upon a time on reddit). To make up for it, replace the missing fluff with the stupidly long fluffy tail of content which this comment is now somehow turning into. Fluffing the fluff. And also, repetitions(!) are removed but also the fluff.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 10 points 1 week ago

Haruhi Suzumiya has entered the chat

[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The bane of my existence before it hit Paramount+

Now you can find individual episodes as WEB-DL

[–] three@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Good shout. I basically put the show on hold until something like this happened. Do you know if the first 4 or 5 seasons are available?

[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 2 points 1 week ago

Can personally speak to 1-3 being available

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Also in the original aspect ratio or was it cropped?

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[–] Censed@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I took the effort to split every episode S1-S3 in davinchi

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Personally, I don't care enough. Mostly my kids watch SpongeBob, and I can tell when vaguely paying attention as they watch it that I've seen every episode in seasons 1-3 (the only seasons I bothered to load) multiple times, which would specifically have been when I was a kid watching live TV. And half the time it's on shuffle anyways so the order doesn't matter at all

Edit to add: not sure if the issues people are describing are Plex specific but Jellyfin required zero manual effort when I injested the rips. All episodes have correct metadata (as two parters, so for example I have "S1E10-11 Pizza Delivery / Home Sweet Pineapple" as a single episode)

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I am too much of a lerfectionist (metadata) to not care. :(

Edit:
Thing is, not every release respects the aired or the DVD-order that TVDB uses.
So you might have some episode which deviates from the current order and suddenly it doesnt work anymore.

[–] JawnZ@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago

American dad being screwy is what got me to finally setup Jellyfin. I was just using Stremio for everything but the jumping around because of season misnumbering was bad

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The Repair Shop was a real pain in the ass to import since they apparently run multiple seasons concurrently for some reason.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

My demons are all Doctor Who. I had it mostly straight in plaques and when I moved over to jelly fin, nothing was right.

[–] ThunderLegend@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

I thought I had downloaded bad releases and the episodes were messy..glad to see is not just me having trouble to organize sponge Bob to have episode preview right

Beavis and Butthead.

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