PLEX or Jellyfin? MY PICK using both for Years!

I use Jellyfin with Kodi. Jellyfin as central progress and metadata library and Kodi as a player on my devices. Kodi has support for all the media standards and a very powerful interface, addons and general player. This has been the perfect setup for me at home and on the go. Kodi can also download videos and sync progress back once you have internet/connection to Jellyfin again.

I guess I'm the ass that uses emby lol

What affordable cloud storage works as a plex media server for streaming? I'm always on the road and setting up a stationary server isn't a option for my lifestyle. I'm always on the road due to work. Please any feedback would be appreciated

Do either of these have a random play feature? I want to rip the movies and shows and have them queue up at random. Too many short nights cut shorter by picking something interesting to watch 🤦‍♂️

I have both. same media. I like Plex for the DVR funtions. I already paid the Plex Pass for the life time guide data. I'm not paying again or a monthly fee for Jellyfin. I like Jellyfin for the Transcoding (AV1).

Can't take advice from anyone who says "lib-ary"

Jellyfin and Plex are pos.

After testing it all for 5 years, having plex pass, beefy jellyfin server ... i decided on Emby! Works the best for me, great interface both on admin and tv side, subtitle downloading, many nice plugins and so far it works the most "flawless' (without this small annoyances) of them all.

Stremio with torrentio and real debrid :)

Unfortunately my LG tv does not have the jellyfin app in its store

Plex not playing local media when it's raining is the most frustrating thing for me.

how to get rid of plex saying unauthorize access. I cannot log in on my server using plex.

had plex for a few years now hopped on over to jellyfin for about a year or 2.

my previous NAS had only 2 HDD's and with plex i noticed even if the NAS has nothing to do plex keeps doing stuff preventing the drives from ever going to sleep. with jellyfin once it's done the nas actually starts to idle and even sleep if it's got nothing to do. (yea NAS HDD's don't need to sleep...might even be better if it doesn't but spending 24 hours a day doing something or spending 18 hours sleeping i feel better about it actually gooing to sleep when it has nothing to do, now i have the OS and docker containers running of a volume on a SSD and have only my media/backup's on the HDD's so those are off/sleeping unless i'm actually watching a show.

also the plex app for my TV's OS was junk, the plex app on android TV at the time kept having issue's, and i bought a new tv (cheap one but with the intent to run app's natively) and later a google chromecast with android tv so i didn't have to use my damn phone to cast plex to my tv as that app did work well >.>

jellyfin might have less app's but so far...it has worked better :P

Do you have port forwarding enabled on your router? When you’re internet goes out I think that not having port forwarding on your router might be causing the inability to use Plex during an internet outage.

Are you running this on a Raspberry Pi? If so which pi and how much memory on the pi? Any settings for the pi? Thanks.

Lieberry?

I also have both installed, but Jellyfin is missing lots of features. In the browser HDR doesn't work properly, and I don't think it tone maps either.

The majority of my movies are UHD Blu-ray and are all in HDR.

Plex is definitely more convenient, but I'd prefer Jellyfin if it had all the features and functionality I needed.

Jellyfin also crashes for me sometimes especially with very high bitrate content on my SHIELD.

On the other hand, Jellyfin does 2x natively and it works with auto-transcoding. Plex can do 2x in the browser with a plugin, but it's not setup for transcoding that fast. Both of mine are using the same transcoding settings too.

As far as I've seen, it's impossible to properly setup anime on Plex. Jellyfin let's you set "this special plays after episode X". Plex doesn't do that. It's required for anime with all their movies and OVAs and weird half-seasons.

My internet would go down so often before they fixed it, Jellyfin is the perfect fit for me, no internet? No problem.

Jellyfin is a cool concept, but the reality is that the app are horrible and the remote sharing is complicated for non geek users.

It’s just not an option for your regular users.