I have only used Plex very briefly before I moved to try Emby then Jellyfin. Granted I am not a heavy user of a media server - basically no one else in my household uses it, and I don’t have a lot of content, but I do use sonarr / radarr with it.

The moment Plex put me off was when I realized a Plex Pass was needed to add transcoding capability. What are some of the reasons people like Plex better than Jellyfin, other than those who have been using Plex forever and are just too lazy to explore other options?

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    1 year ago

    I use Jellyfin on different platforms (Sony TV, Set top box with Kodi, phone, PC) - basically all I need are the Jellyfin clients for these different platforms namely

    • Jellyfin media player for Windows
    • Jellyfin for Android
    • Jellycon for Kodi

    For me there is no need to enter any URL on these clients (except the initial setup that is). Is Plex much simpler even for the initial setup? Sorry like I said I haven’t really used Plex.

    For normal daily usage I haven’t really run into any problem with Jellyfin… just click and watch.