Hi all! I have been using Emby for about a year now, but I was wondering, after the recent botnet debacle with Emby, if I should switch my media provider.

Anyone have experience with all 3? I really only have experience with Emby.

Some things that I’m interested in:

  • Automatic file management is a plus
  • Multiple users on mobile devices
  • Roku apps
  • dorsal4641@infosec.pubEnglish
    111·
    2 years ago

    Plex is easy and works on everything I use it on. Easy enough that my old parents can use it. I know some people are bothered by their recent pivot to try to have some legitmacy but it’s trivial to ignore their commercial-subsidized content

  • aliens@infosec.pubEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    I’ve used Plex for 10 years+ and Jellyfin for few months. Plex handles media recognition great and has an easy match function for the videos that aren’t automatically recognized or need to be fixed. I have a few friends/family that I share my library with and it’s easy for them to get connected remotely using their phones and roku/firestick without any issues using their plex accounts. I have the lifetime pass so my mobile devices connect for free but it there may be cost to install the mobile app.

    Plex has expanded their free/ad-supported movies/tv shows but I have enough content I haven’t explored it much. My server isn’t very powerful so I can only have 2 streams going at once for my library which is mostly x265 content with a bunch of x264 content as well but that’s enough for my needs.

    I use a roku as my main client and besides some flakiness with the wifi from time to time it works fine, responsive and you can use the mobile app or http://remoku.tv/ as remote controls too in addition to the physical remote.

  • mjh@infosec.pubEnglish
    102·
    2 years ago

    Plex rocks, the lifetime subscription is worth it. If you want Roku Apps get a Roku and use the Roku to access Plex.

  • thegpfury@fedia.io
    81·
    2 years ago

    I hate Plex. It’s gotten too bloated.

    I run Emby primarily, but not externally accessible [vpn]. It works really well for me, haven’t had any issues.

    I use Jellyfin to put some stuff for the toddlers. It works on Amazon Fire Kids, while Emby doesn’t. It works ok, but it’s definitely less polished than Emby, and I feel like it’s not as stable. Could just be me though.

  • Jim The VHS Wizard @infosec.pubEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    I would like to second the issues with Plex. I understand their desire to try and mainstream themselves and have a non-sketchy reason for people to still install them, but at some point it became too much of a mess and I went back to Kodi, which is great but not applicable for your use case

    • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Plex was my second media server. Serviio was my first, and was just a DLNA service with a few sorting and metadata options. After Plex choked over and over and I kept having to manually fix watch status, I moved fully into Kodi. Never had an issue. If I want to backup the metadata and watch status, it’s a simple process as long as kodi has wrote access to my media library. Not that it helps OP, but it’s all I am looking for.

  • gravity@infosec.pubEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I’ve used all three and here is what I have most recently settled on: Jellyfin as a backend server with Infuse on the frontend. It has been rock solid for the last two years.

    • cybericOPEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Do you know if Jellyfin can do the media management (like metadata editing)?

  • Xavier Ashe@infosec.pubEnglish
    42·
    2 years ago

    I’ve been running Plex for years (maybe a decade or more). Yes, there are a bunch of mainstream-ish features that I don’t use. It’s still simple for everyone in my family (including older parents) to navigate and use. I use it for movies, TV, and it runs a photo screen saver with family pics.