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Watch videos, movies, TV series and TV channels instantly. (www.stremio.com)

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OpenSource alternative to Netflix (Win, Linux, Mac, iOS, Android)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if Jellyfin has a torrent plugin, like I said, Stremio with the torrent plugin seems to be the replacement of popcorn time.

If you have movies or shows stored in your disk, then you can run Jellyfin and anyone with a browser will be able to watch what you have stored. You can setup accounts for your family members like you'd have in Netflix so they can keep track of what they are watching and what they have watched, limit access to certain content, etc. It's very configurable in that sense. I'd say the UI is user-friendly.

You can check-out their demo here https://demo.jellyfin.org/stable/web/index.html

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

I’m not sure if Jellyfin has a torrent plugin, like I said, Stremio with the torrent plugin seems to be the replacement of popcorn time.

Yeah, sorry I misread your post thinking that Jellyfin had torrent plugins like Stremio.

I like the versatility that Stremio offers because sometimes you don't quite know what you or others want to watch in the spur of the moment. Stremio, like Netflix, offers instant access to whatever movie someone might want to watch, whereas it seems that Jellyfin requires that someone search a torrent site in a web browser for the content they want to watch, then load up a separate torrent client to download it, then watch the content in Jellyfin. It unfortunately isn't very user friendly to people that are tech-illiterate who just want a Netflix like experience for discovering and watching new content.

It seems to me the biggest advantage to something like Jellyfin would be on demand transcoding of already torrented video to other clients like phones to reduce the cpu usage on those devices.

Am I incorrect in my interpretation of the main use of Jellyfin?