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From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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333 points indigodaddy | 7 comments | 13 Nov 22 02:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.443s | source | bottom
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vachina ◴[13 Nov 22 04:14 UTC] No.33579966[source]▶
Tried Jellyfin, but it doesn’t seem to have the capability to stream directly to my TV, it always wants to transcode it which strips away all the 4K and HDR niceties. While Plex would try its best to preserve the original stream and only transcode what the TV can’t support.

Also Plex’s clients are more polished, it actually feels like I’m browsing my own Netflix.

You can always turn off third party content in Plex (by unpinning them). I only use Plex locally so maybe that’s why I’ve been missing all the cloudy bloat lol.

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1. ekianjo ◴[13 Nov 22 04:15 UTC] No.33579969[source]▶
Use a fire TV stick that costs virtually nothing and install the Jellyfin app. You are done.
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2. afavour ◴[13 Nov 22 04:18 UTC] No.33579986[source]▶
“Buy an entirely new streaming device to use this service” is never ever a good answer. “Buy an ad-infested, Amazon tracking streaming device” also feels entirely antithetical to Jellyfin’s open source mission so there needs to be a better answer than that.
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3. vachina ◴[13 Nov 22 04:58 UTC] No.33580225[source]▶
Yeah these sticks tend to use low powered SoC that chokes on anything higher than 1080p, not to mention missing codecs (Dolby Vision, ATMOS, DTS etc.) and lack of compliance.

If you don’t care about any of those or have a TV that don’t do 4K then yeah an Android box and lower fidelity source will do.

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4. kennend3 ◴[13 Nov 22 12:48 UTC] No.33582553[source]▶
>Yeah these sticks tend to use low powered SoC that chokes on anything higher than 1080p

Is this the case on the "4k" version as well? i have both the original (1080p) and 4K version on my newer TV's and havent noticed it "choking"?

5. ekianjo ◴[13 Nov 22 13:48 UTC] No.33583015[source]▶
You have the 4k version of the stick these days that's still super cheap.
6. ekianjo ◴[13 Nov 22 13:49 UTC] No.33583025[source]▶
> “Buy an ad-infested, Amazon tracking streaming device”

You don't even need to use the amazon services. Just run the Jellyfin app and that's all you need to keep alive as a service, the rest you can blacklist. There are also ways to root those devices if you want to remove ads and more.

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