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From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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333 points indigodaddy | 2 comments | 13 Nov 22 02:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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irusensei ◴[13 Nov 22 09:36 UTC] No.33581500[source]▶
I’ve stopped using Plex-like stuff. I don’t really need it because transcoding isn’t as relevant as it was before. Pretty much every device I own can play h265 without CPU overhead.

What I’m doing is basically a Samba file share + Infuse/Kodi. Thats it. You pretty much get the same results. Infuse can sync between devices using cloud sync and trackt, which can be used through a hide-my-mail account. Kodi can sync watched shows through said Trakt account.

Infuse costs me a dollar a month and Kodi is free. I don’t need a NAS with a powerful CPU that can transcode. Anything that has disks and saturates the gigabit connection is enough.

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causality0 ◴[13 Nov 22 11:39 UTC] No.33582123[source]▶
So you're using four or five different things to replicate the functionality of one thing? This is sounding a lot like a certain Dropbox-related comment.
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1. irusensei ◴[13 Nov 22 13:01 UTC] No.33582644[source]▶
Not at all. There is a samba server and there is a media player in each device. I don't need to run .net or whatever code with a web server and a wrapper around ffmpeg. So it's totally the opposite of what you said.

I think the way I described how those devices get in sync gave you that opinion but to me as an user is basically just 2 things.

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2. causality0 ◴[13 Nov 22 15:46 UTC] No.33584062[source]▶
Samba, infuse, kodi, trackt, hide-my-mail. This sounds like five different things I have to set up plus a paid monthly subscription.