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Plex is overhauling its apps with a redesign and under-the-hood upgrades (www.engadget.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 163 points 5 months ago (86 children)

Well, Jellyfin is right over there, and it's FOSS too. Consider switching, it's pretty great.

[–] gianni 95 points 5 months ago (36 children)

The quality and features of JellyFin are nowhere close to Plex. I have used both for years.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Quality is fine, sounds like user error. Features sure, but that's to be expected with a paid app.

[–] gianni 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Show me an AppleTV JellyFin client that “just works”. Something my mom & dad could use to watch a movie. Something that can do normal media player things like seeking or subtitles.

There is a huge disparity in the quality, support, and features of the various clients.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I set my parents up with infuse and it works fine with no issues. To be fair apple doesn't seem to be very supportive of foss development on their devices

[–] gianni 1 points 5 months ago

I’ll have to check out Infuse, thanks for the recommendation.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't use Apple products so I can't speak to the AppleTV support.

But your criticisms seem to be of clients for Jellyfin rather than Jellyfin itself.

[–] gianni 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They are effectively one and the same. You cannot use JellyFin without a client.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Right, but the clients I use don't have these issues. Maybe there's an issue with the AppleTV client, that's fair criticism, but saying that Jellyfin has inferior quality is not accurate.

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