1y ago

plex or Jellyfin?

I’ve got Jellyfin up and running right now on a DS620Slim NAS and it’s running pretty good so far. I’ve seen a lot of people say they prefer Plex over Jellyfin. What are the main advantages to plex?

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I switched from Plex to Jellyfin several years ago and haven't really looked back. Overall I just didn't like the direction plex kept going (pushing shit streaming services, central auth, paywalling features), and dropped it even though I grabbed a lifetime plex pass back in the day. The only thing I miss about plex was the ease of developing a custom plugin for it since you could pretty much just drop python scripts in there and have it work, though their documentation for plugin development was terrible (and I think removed from their site entirely).
- I didn’t realize how expensive plex is. Definitely going to keep with Jellyfin for now.
  
  Great choice! Am a happy Jelly user with a useless lifetime plexpass ;-)
  
  I still only use the free version of plex. I don't stream to other people but I am pretty sure the option to share my library is still there. I do stream from two other libraries on occasion.

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