Your first sentence is 100% incorrect assumption. :P
I have used Plex for over a decade, and I’m now fulltime on Jellyfin.
Plex works trash on my TV (LG from 2019). Jellyfin with the exact same library just flies. The performance is just god awful while browsing your library.
startup takes minutes
moving between posters takes seconds
searching is not debounced between key presses so searching takes ages
Plex on my TV cannot seem to play different audio/language tracks correctly. I select my preferred language, I explicitly select language, I set it to default in the container, nothing. It just plays English no matter what. Trash.
The developers don’t care about their users. These issues have been reported for a literal DECADE, and they responded years ago but have since ignored them. I reported it more recently, have been ignored for years now, despite keeping the thread alive from auto-closing.
Fuck Plex, they don’t care, I don’t care. Hail Jellyfin, it does all Plex could do and more, that I needed. Performance is great. It handles multiple language tracks.
The only thing Plex did better was duplicate merging. 👍 Not worth it though. Strictly unusable on my TV in general.
Plex has a broader range of supported devices, a slightly better user interface, and provides a path to sharing your library using logins for friends and family, with https so the traffic is encrypted. You can share your movie collection with Grandma without her getting FBI piracy warnings from her ISP.
I don’t use it because it costs money and it is a very simple vector to get in a lot of legal trouble, should any US government agencies put enough pressure on them to gain access to user data, because your streams pass through Plex’s servers to make the connection.
So far though, it has been safe and reliable for the majority of its users.
I’m curious why Plex wins. In my experience, Plex offers no customization and very few options for changing the UI. My impression is it’s very hard to use if your media includes more than movies or TV.
Jellyfin people who constantly ask “have you tried Jellyfin?” have never used Plex and don’t know what they are missing out on.
I have Emby lifetime. I have Plex lifetime. I try Jellyfin every year.
Plex wins always. Emby is second. Would not recommend Jellyfin.
Your first sentence is 100% incorrect assumption. :P
I have used Plex for over a decade, and I’m now fulltime on Jellyfin.
Plex works trash on my TV (LG from 2019). Jellyfin with the exact same library just flies. The performance is just god awful while browsing your library.
Fuck Plex, they don’t care, I don’t care. Hail Jellyfin, it does all Plex could do and more, that I needed. Performance is great. It handles multiple language tracks.
The only thing Plex did better was duplicate merging. 👍 Not worth it though. Strictly unusable on my TV in general.
What am I missing out on? I don’t mean this in a mean way, I think you are correct that I don’t know and am legitimately curious.
Plex has a broader range of supported devices, a slightly better user interface, and provides a path to sharing your library using logins for friends and family, with https so the traffic is encrypted. You can share your movie collection with Grandma without her getting FBI piracy warnings from her ISP.
I don’t use it because it costs money and it is a very simple vector to get in a lot of legal trouble, should any US government agencies put enough pressure on them to gain access to user data, because your streams pass through Plex’s servers to make the connection.
So far though, it has been safe and reliable for the majority of its users.
If the other two cost money, and I’m happy on Jellyfin, maybe ignorance is bliss.
Yeah, I’d like to know too (but won’t be using proprietary stuff just to find out).
Same on your rankings and I also run all three.
I’m curious why Plex wins. In my experience, Plex offers no customization and very few options for changing the UI. My impression is it’s very hard to use if your media includes more than movies or TV.