How many of you have a Plex Server?

>>212172892 (OP)
Yeah but it's just porn no movies

>>212172892 (OP)
I have jellyfin, but same difference really
I could point a plex server at those directories and be up and running in 30 minutes

I use jellyfin

>>212172929
>>212172974
Is Jellyfin particularly better if you've used both? I have parents who I'm setting this up for and they're not tech savvy. Plex seems the most 'netflix' looking (as all streaming is netflix to them even as they're clicking something different)

>>212173027
It has apps for most smart TVs and Amazon Firestick which is nice, I also set mine up for my parents and they can just hit a button on their TV Home Screen and be in. I haven’t used plex in a few years but I currently think jellyfin is a general improvement, but plex may have also improved in the last few years idk. We’ve also got like 30 people and 120TB on the server now which is way bigger than the plex ever was.

>>212172892 (OP)
yes, I bought a lifetime subscription like 10 years ago and I'm too lazy to switch

>>212173027
Plex is still better. People just support jellyfin because muh open source and the bloat garbage plex keeps trying to push. But the plex UI and media matching is better

>>212172929
Based

>>212173027
Jellyfin is fully open source and fully self hosted. No Spyware. The only issue is that it's not as supported in TVs and other hardware as Plex is

>>212173244
See what I mean? He didn't mention why it's better feature wise. He just virtue signalled about it not spying on you. The same people who tell you to use jellyfin say to use linux.

>>212173281
>The same people who tell you to use jellyfin say to use linux.
Plex it is.

>>212172892 (OP)
I use the slightly less scummy (they push a subscription service pretty hard too) Emby server. The free stuff is much too ghetto.

>>212173281
If it lets me watch my kino without spying on me, that's literally all the features I need.

>>212173482
>muh spying by plex
>uses smartphone with 30 cameras
Thanks for proving my right. You are a linuxfag lol

>>212172892 (OP)
I have a HDMI cable and a computer and a television.
Why would i install an extra barrier between myself and my kino?, especially one which requires logins and constant updates and troubleshooting on subreddits.
What is wrong with you people?

>>212173578
I only set mine up to simplify watching from multiple things that I can't easily plug into. Other people use it to share their stuff. If you are only using a single screen for yourself it's retarded to have a media server.

>>212173578
>Why would i install an extra barrier between myself and my kino?
You put all your kino in one place, and as an autist it is painstakenly sorted and properly organized
>requires logins
You click 2 buttons once and it stays logged in everywhere
>constant updates
It does this on its own
> troubleshooting on subreddits
Plex is only difficult for redditors. It's likely the easiest thing in the world to set up.
>What is wrong with you people?
You're the one on reddit, Anon.

>>212173987
Good luck having access to your kinos with Plex when your internet goes down.

Kek

Plex is just too lame for 4k films

>>212174027
Why would I need outside internet on my home intranet?

I tried to use plex once and every time I tried to upload files it just deleted them and didn't accept them and I couldn't find anyone else having the problem. Reddit wasn't helpful I almost wanna try and use AI to set one up

>>212174074
Plex needs you to sign into their server.

You know, the one outside your own network

>>212173578
>I have a HDMI cable and a computer and a television.
This . Why would I need Plex or anything? I don't get it.

I use my buddies

>>212174149
No. No you dont
A bit like sex hey anon

>>212174112
Right. That's for my friends to use. If I lose internet 2 things happen
>my kinos are no longer available for my friends. They're getting them for free so they'll have to deal
>I remote login to the computer that runs my plex and watch kinos that way.
Using one thing doesn't negate the more manual way of doing things.

what's the point
where (with broadband internet) are you playing the movies outside of your apartment that you need to set up this kind of shit
torrent, NAS and a .mkv player on you're phone is all you ever need

>>212173326
>"jellyfin isnt really that hard bro just follow these steps:"
>step 1: mount the drive
Stick with plex

>>212174670
Yeah with plex I just nod in the direction of my hard drive and plex just finds it

>>212172907
why not use stash? It's for porn

>>212172892 (OP)
I hear a lot of good things about Jellyfin but it's much easier to drag and drop files into my movies or shows folder in my Plex library. It's also easy for my boomer parents to navigate. I just need to get around to building a dedicated server so I can have it running 24/7.

>>212173578
i can remote torrent from my phone and it's there in minutes to watch from anywhere.

>wait, you don't have Netflix?
>plex? what's that?

>>212174929
This is actually where Plex shines.
You give her more choices than she can handle and she'll default to sucking cock.

>>212172892 (OP)
I do but I haven't turned it on in years. Might drop it off at my parents house so they'll work through the collection on it instead of watching cable news all day.

I have a media server. I used to use Plex but have moved to Jellyfin. Plex is still better, but the difference is getting smaller every day, especially because Plex only ever changes when they've found a new way to make you pay.
Also you don't need to make an account on their website like you do with Plex.
And if you need transcoding, Plex will only do that for subscribers.

>>212175232
I've always used plex for free and it transcodes

>its a yify copy...

>>212174891
>remote torrent from my phone and it's there in minutes
yep. dont waste your breath tho, ive tried showing HDMI tards the light but they dont care.

>>212172892 (OP)
IDK people talk about Jellyfin or Plex and Radarr and transcoding support and whatever other stack of tools and I don't really understand the point. I just have a WebDAV server, and a WebDAV client and VLC on my iPad. Seems to be enough for my needs.
The only minor annoyance with this setup is that when you stream to VLC it does not associate the file with its actual name, so if you have to search for subtitles you have to write the name manually. But I have baked in subtitles for most movies anyway so it doesn't really matter.

>>212175297
>I've always used plex for free and it transcodes
Yeah sorry I meant hardware transcoding

>>212175469
>I just have a WebDAV server, and a WebDAV client
Okay. I have a Jellyfin server and a Jellyfin client.

people host their kino?? do you just download a shit ton of stuff you might be remotely interested in? or do you rewatch stuff?

i just google the movie on yandex and the first link lets me watch for free immediately
>bitrate
i literally do not care if a movie is in 480p or 4k, it does not improve the experience

>>212175630
That's cool. I looked at Jellyfin for music primarily, but it seems to be very opinionated about the way you organize your files in folders and I don't like it. I have my own system of folders that's intuitive to me. But if it works for you great.

>>212175678
I make TVChannels by making a collection with an intent to shuffle. You can snag Adult Swim bumpers off archive.org and have them play between random episodes of old CN shows.
There's a lot of things you can do if you get creative but the main reason is to share a digital library and get peiple to stop paying streaming shit money.

>>212175469
i don’t use jellyfin for transcoding and setting it up + using it with infuse is a hell of a lot easier and more convenient for watching things in a home theater than setting up a webdav server and using VLC while having to deal with whatever inane bullshit you have to do to load files properly. my shit just works and i never have to think about it.

>>212175678
My rule of thumb is that if I've watched the movie twice, or if I watch it once, there is a moderate chance I'll want to rewatch it again and it's niche enough that a risk exists I won't be able to find it again later - I download it.

>>212175678
It’s a hobby, it isn’t meant to be practical. Setting up these things is how some people have fun.

>>212175678
>i literally do not care if a movie is in 480p or 4k, it does not improve the experience
it does if you aren’t watching things on a netbook from a decade ago

>>212174112
You can actually use Plex locally without their server, but you need to manually configure stuff to get it working. Have done it a while ago when I had net problems with my ISP.

>>212174149
You don't need it, you have a workaround. If that's your solution to kinoviewing, then don't sweat anything else. I was like this for years... until...

I wanted to lay on my fat ass and watch some old football games I had on my hdd. I grew tired of going through directories and whatnot. So I tried out Plex. And it was an immediately better user experience. For someone like me, I like the interface, I like setting posters to look old school, like an old video store. I like organising collections. I like filling in gaps in my media. Before I didn't care - just grab a movie and watch it. But being able to have a better user experience is what turned me into making my own server.

I like being able to share it as a service for a select few in my family who aren't as savvy at this stuff as I am. I feel like I'm gifting them some enjoyment, which makes me happy.

So yeah, you don't need it unless you want to change your user experience. Otherwise, you have a viable method to watch your stuff and that's all you need, then you're already set.

>>212175777
give an example of a niche movie. i find niche movies on yandex easily even obscure foreign stuff like Daughter of the Guardian
>>212175809
i watch stuff on a 4k TV

>>212175678
I try to recreate what you'd find in a video rental shop up until like 2005.
The clickable movie posters/cover art add to the overall experience.

>>212175678
>bitrate
>480p or 4k

doesn't know the difference between bitrate and resolution ngmi

>>212176107
>give me an example of a niche movie
NTA but go find me a streaming link for The Royal African Rifles (1953)
I won't hold my breath.

>>212177331
i know what bitrate is. my point about resolution was to show how truly little i care about the number and quality of pixels on my screen
>>212177380
https://ok.ru/video/1095730661890 literally 2 seconds on yandex

>>212173222
Adding 'muh' doesnt invalidate incredibly good reasons to use something

>>212176107
Caveman staring Ringo Starr.
For some reason, my grandmother loves that movie and it was a great joy to figure out a way to get it on her television again and she texts me every time she watches it.

>>212177545
literally on youtube movies. nothing beatles is obscure
>>212177380
https://us.streamingjoy.com/title/207294/

>>212177434
>https://ok.ru/video/1095730661890 literally 2 seconds on yandex
Wrong movie, genius
You posted this https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045961/
I asked for this https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046254/

>>212177664
>https://us.streamingjoy.com/title/207294/
I automated ad-click website with broken links that go nowhere

>>212177855
But as for King of the Khyber Rifles that's easy as fuck to download you don't even need russian youtube to watch it King.of.the.Khyber.Rifles.1953.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

>>212176070
>You can actually use Plex locally without their serve
Depends on your client, some don't support this

>>212176107
> give an example of a niche movie.
> Best in Hell (wagnerite propaganda slash urban warfare tactics manual starring guy from Come and See). Sure it's on Youtube now, but it might not be in a year when I like to see it.
> The old BBC house of cards trilogy, I remember having to search for it a lil bit.
> Erde (2019 documentary), beautiful but I had to rip it off Vimeo on a time limited PPV, it's basically unobtanium otherwise.
> Legend of Destruction (hebrew hand drawn "movie").
Just off the top of my head.
And generally - all of these things exist now, and Yandex to find them also exists now, and all of them probably will exist tomorrow. But if you want to re-watch them in a year or a couple, the internet might look very different. The European arm of Yandex might bow to regulators and start delisting pirate streams, the streaming sites themselves and the storage/serving sites they depend on fluctuate constantly too. I think that working with this constantly changing stuff only makes sense for movies which I won't be too sad if I can't find them (e.g. Holdovers piqued my curiosity as a dumb feelgood flick, but if I didn't find a way to watch it I'll just go play something).

>>212179431
>basically unobtanium otherwise
will have to correct myself, just checked: it's now made it's way to some Russian websites. It was much harder to find in 2020 when I was looking.

>>212172892 (OP)
>How many of you have a Plex Server?
i prefer jellyfin

>>212172892 (OP)
Yes it's great, there was some screeching a little while ago about them charging for some feature but I've never paid a dime so I whatever that was did not affect me.

>>212175678
>i literally do not care if a movie is in 480p or 4k, it does not improve the experience
lies

>>212179855
Plex is trash

>>212175232
Why do you put each sentence on its own line? Why would you start and=sentence with “and”? Do they not teach English comp anymore?

>>212181676
dude you should totally dock his grade

>>212175340
My plex server only runs yify 2160p rips and I run them through my 85" 4k tv. They look great. No reason for any bullshit that is double digit gigs.

>>212174149
because it looks completely official and orderly. Some day you wont want to live like a meth addict.

>>212181676
Because fuck you.
That's why.

>>212174149
The UI is easy to use on a TV, and you can watch at any TV in your house

I've had Jellyfin for about two years now and it's great being able to access my library when in bed or on a train from my phone or laptop
BUT
I just installed a miniPC connected to a TV in my spare room and no TV or Movie plays on Jellyfin here, I can access the music and that plays, I click on any TV show or movie and it just won't play.
Any help?

>>212172892 (OP)
I delete all my torrents after watching them. I probably won’t want to watch it ever again, and if I do I’ll just redownload it or stream it on a free streaming site

>>212181961
sounds like a firewall issue or codec

>>212174077
you don't upload files. you just point it to the media folder you use. you have to have the files properly named and organized. it's super easy you must have just been missing something simple.

>>212175568
ah I never noticed the lack of hardware trancoding since I just use it for myself. Software was plenty for the times I needed it

>>212177465
Give a single reason to use jellyfin over plex. Crying about people spying on you doesn't count since 99% of people use windows and 100% of people own a smart phone

>>212181676
Starting sentences with conjunctions is proper English. Your teacher was just a bitch

>>212182471
I do this and never seed because I'm a selfish piece of shit.

>>212172892 (OP)
I have one. I only use it to beam kinos at my tv. works well enough, but sometimes I have to walk upstairs to turn my pc on

>>212182624
Same, I like to close my torrent client and keep it empty so once my torrent finishes I remove it from the list and exit the client

>>212182590
She was a raging dyke bitch (but very hot) that would lower our grades for each passive verb usage. Everyone in the class got an F on our first papers.

>>212172892 (OP)
I got 4000 movies

>>212182471
>I delete all my torrents after watching them.
poorfuck

>>212182471
I never used to do this but have started in the last 5 years or so. There has been nothing new worth keeping

Will my PC get fucked up if it’s on 24/7? 8TB is more than enough so I never bothered buying a NAS

>>212184562
>Will my PC get fucked up if it’s on 24/7?
No. What do you think a NAS is?

>>212184620
Doesn’t it sleep most of the time?

>>212184635
A NAS? No.

>>212174754
once i've installed stash does it allow me to manage plugins, dbs, metadata etc. through a nice web ui or is it command line autism? i'm fine with installing shit via command line but it would be so fucking tiresome to have to manage anything beyond the installation that way. my collection has grown so vast that i really do need to do something about making it more comfy to peruse

>>212181961
Did you setup jellyfin not to transcode?

>>212172892 (OP)
I do, i got mad when i was trying to marathon something and the quality of streaming services kept fucking up. you would get weird comments from support saying things like "oh sir your TV or device is not supported for 4k" when you were doing 1080p. this was before they started jacking up the prices and throwing ads in. Now i have whatever i want to watch and yeah you can do price/price on it but if you're smart you can grab a pretty decent NAS with 2 drive bays and a couple terabyte drives for not much at all. know where to look and you can download anything, or if you are fine with DVD quality you can get anything you want for like 2$.

Watching friends spend 100$ a month of streaming services (some with ads) just for dogshit quality streaming and so they can watch the office for the 15th time is wild.

>>212174372
I have friends/family anon.
Sometimes they come over and we watch movies together.

>>212174027
I guess that's a problem for people in third world shitholes like indians and russians, but not the majority of people.

>>212173027
No, the Jellyfin spam here is completely inorganic and forced.
There's zero reason to use it over Plex.

>>212175678
I don't even really watch movies. I just do it for archiving purposes (read: digital hoarding)

>>212185201
>There's zero reason to use it over Plex.
being a corporate tool is not a good reason

>>212174372
The Plex server is on my PC which is in the office room and the clients are in my bedroom and living room. It's designed to turn your PC into a kind of home Netflix.

>>212185201
Genuinely schizo.
Stick to plex chump.

>>212185308
Its free and my data is already being collected by 6 gorillion Jews via Google, Microsoft and every other service I've signed up for in the past two decades.
It's literally irrelevant.

I finally switched to Jellyfin after the last Plex spyware update.
Thankfully the Jellyfin app for my family's Fire TV does work, it's even way faster than the Plex app. I've been watching mostly 1080p remuxes and it's all direct play.

Now I need to see how to manage subtitles because the opensubtitles Jellyfin plugin doesn't work for me, someone suggested Bazarr, will try that.

>>212185365
I will, I tried Jellyfin and it sucked.

>>212174372
Why would I watch movies on my phone when I have a 85inch at home?
I'll never understand you jeets.

>>212182568
>Local users
>They aren't spying on you
There's two reasons FAGGOT now shut the fuck up

>>212185405
Fine with me, I don't actually care between plex/jellyfin. I use jellyfin purely to be decentralized.
My server is to preserve media without relying on anyone to maintain functionality except my own.

Jellyfin is better than Plex because it will still work on your local network if your Internet is out

>>212173578
Your HDMI runs all the way from your computer room to your living room? Quite an ugly aesthetic there

>>212173578
>I have a HDMI cable and a computer and a television.
virgin

>>212184562
It's the opposite. Constantly turning on and off your computer puts stress on parts, especially harddrives.

>>212185730
>Jellyfin is better than Plex because it will still work on your local network if your Internet is out
So does Plex

>>212185934
i dont know what the other anon is going on about, plex works offline lol. the only positive to jellyfin is that hardware transcoding isnt locked behind a paywall like plex pass.

>>212186139
>hardware transcoding isnt locked behind a paywall like plex pass.
only retards transcode anyway

>>212173578
Imagine clicking around your windows system to sort through your disorganized mess of media, then running over to your tv to watch it once you finally manage to find it.
Jellyfin/plex enhances the experience, you wouldn't get it.

Think I'm running out of space for kinos, lads

>>212186473
How much was all of that, ballpark estimate? Genuinely impressive shit.

I do but I so rarely use it, I mostly just watch tv shows and movies on my actual desktop using a video player because I can browse the internet in another window on another screen at the same time.

>>212186542
I think it's close to 10k at this point.
Think it's up at around 700TB usable. I don't go crazy with redundancy. A few storages have double redundancy but most of it is not super unique data that would be a pain to get again

>>212173027
Plex has more bloat. If I had a Plex server running I wouldn't switch but I only recently got into setting up a home server so I went with Jellyfin.

I'm also a software dev so Jellyfin being open-source is cool. If I felt like running my own fork locally I could fuck around with stuff.

>>212186473

Is there a massive difference in speed between wireless in wired for streaming movies. I have a pretty fast speed 300+mps.

>>212173027
depends on what type of content you watch, the screen you use, its OS, and if you're using a tv box or only the tv app. Maybe even if you're plugged directly into the screen or not. I think you have to try, if it suits your needs.

I have a LG TV and want to watch 4k thing with subtitles over wifi, but without buying an expensive 200$ tv box on top of that. It may be one of the worst possible usecase, but I figured it out after some months.
from what I remember:
Plex is good but a lot of advanced features are not free, playing 4k video without loss of quality for free seems impossible
Emby was good, but they fucked up the subtitles rendering of their app on the lg monitor at some points, and then I lost some sub format supports. It was pretty annoying and I don't like how the devs pretended my tv never supported this format and acted like it never worked, on their github, while it worked well for a while...
Jellyfin was the best for my usecase, since I was able to stream my 4k feed with subtitles without loss and for free, simply using the LG app, but it has less features, or some are buggy. I'm still going with this solution.

>>212187125
depends
1080, no problem
4k, more complicated, if you even need some reencoding because of an unsupported format or subtitles, you may be fucked

>>212172892 (OP)
I have it, but I've just started using windows explorer instead. It's fucking up recently with the internet and I'm unsure why.

>>212172929
>>212172892 (OP)
>>212173222
>>212173512
>>212174112


Plex is now payware. Please stop advertising here and buy an ad

>>212175678
yeah, I host my kino
I just download a bunch I'm interested in, then argue with my gf on what to watch

>>212172892 (OP)
I used to use Plex but lately been thinking about switching to Kodi/Jellyfin(idk the difference) since I'm getting more into linux shit.
How are they for huge music libraries? The Plex music app is actually pretty great once you set it up imo.

I use Jellyfin for my TV but most of the time if I watch on my computer I have an HTTP index and feed the link into MPV.

>>212187888
What rips are you watching that are 300mbps+?

>>212172892 (OP)
>his Plex server is filled with YIFY

>>212184692
The web ui.