> You cannot pay for an experience that rivals Plex
Ironic you say this, since Plex Pass is virtually required if you want full control over streaming your media. I'm not sure you quite get it yet.
Ironic you say this, since Plex Pass is virtually required if you want full control over streaming your media. I'm not sure you quite get it yet.
I have no issue spending money (which is why I use Plex and not Emby/Jellyfin), I have a problem when you literally cannot spend any amount of money to get what I consider the best experience. Even if you pay for every streaming app on the planet you can’t get the experience Plex can provide (with media acquired legally or otherwise).
Browsing my library and selecting videos to play is amazing, just the actual player itself is nowhere near as good as Netflix's.
If only there were a way to at least tell it "never transcode, just always play original quality". It's been years of this feature being requested, yet my server still tries to transcode.
It's odd to reply to a thread about a piece of software that has always been FOSS, and parading the solution you paid for while saying "You can't pay for a better solution than something I've paid for!"
Jellyfin is a better solution than Plex, and you're not paying anything! Imagine that.
> You cannot pay for an experience that rivals Plex (or in this case Jellyfin).
You omitted that from your quote. I was stating that running your own media server (no matter the software) is better than using the streaming services. I use Plex so I talked about Plex. I wasn’t refuting the article, I was making a statement about how shitty streaming has gotten.
> I was stating that running your own media server (no matter the software) is better than using the streaming services.
Maybe you should have stated that in the first place...? It is certainly clearer in terms of the message. Nobody said you can't talk about Plex, just that it is weird to lead with "I paid for this!" on a thread about free software that isn't what you paid for. If you didn't pay for Plex pass, your comment would fit better. If the Geerling article was about Plex, your comment would fit better, but it wasn't, and it doesn't.
Performance wise it's also bad compared to the competition.
I don't pay them for hardware encoding but for other services that the alternatives suck at. Once you know you have to pay you don't really care what you have to pay for and what you don't.
There are downsides to Plex, but do realize you're conversing with people who've used multiple options. I try Jellyfin once or twice a year and it's objectively a worse experience each time.
And again, when I used the free version of Plex the viewing experience was perfect. I guess I just don't need hardware encoding?