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From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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333 points indigodaddy | 4 comments | 13 Nov 22 02:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.247s | source
1. probotect0r ◴[13 Nov 22 03:10 UTC] No.33579581[source]▶
I bought a 4k projector recently to use for a home theatre which came with AndroidTV. I have a small collection of 4k movies and shows that I wanted to enjoy, but my PC was on a different floor from my projector. I had used Plex a long time ago, and looked for an open source alternative and found JellyFin. It took like 20 minutes to get set up and start watching my content on my projector. The JellyFin AndroidTV app auto-discovered the server running on my PC, and it also supports streaming HEVC encoded content natively, which the web browser client on Firefox and Chrome doesn't seem to yet [1]. When I streamed HEVC content in the web browser client, the server was transcoding it on the fly, which was nice but it was sending my PC to 100% CPU. The library organization features are probably not as good as Plex's, but they are good enough for me.

[1] https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/codec-support/

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2. drexlspivey ◴[13 Nov 22 03:28 UTC] No.33579704[source]▶
Chrome actually added HEVC support a couple of weeks ago.
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3. unixhero ◴[13 Nov 22 04:20 UTC] No.33579995[source]▶
As did the latest version of Plex in its web player.
4. newZWhoDis ◴[13 Nov 22 15:12 UTC] No.33583720[source]▶
FYI transcoding often borks HDR. Always try to direct play if possible.