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From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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333 points indigodaddy | 3 comments | 13 Nov 22 02:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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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. prometheon1 ◴[13 Nov 22 08:52 UTC] No.33581291[source]▶
I had issues getting it to stream directly to my TV. It wasn't easy to find but what solved it for me was changing the DLNA profile settings like this example: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-docs/issues/233
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2. vachina ◴[13 Nov 22 14:47 UTC] No.33583510[source]▶
Does it do partial transcode? My TV doesn’t support DTS and Plex would transcode it to AC3 and remux with the original video stream before feeding it to my TV.
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3. prometheon1 ◴[16 Nov 22 15:05 UTC] No.33624221[source]▶
Sorry, no idea