Oh wel let me join the ME to list here not the plex gives a flying horses **** they care about money and thats is lotsa develop into BS live tv and all that sht clogging op my screen and what not.
While bugs years old are still there. (Slow Database) OH but wait thats for large databases where the almighty Plex Devs deem it just to big and won’'t do *** all about it.
Yes i am angry this issue XX in the past 6 months with plex only to turn out to be a something widely know. I wish the open source community would create a alternative. Why the fk am i still paying 5 euro a month for this sT.
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Mod-Edit: moved in an own thread as it had no link to the feature suggestion you posted it into
There are a number of alternatives. Kodi & Emby being the major players. They both do things that Plex doesn’t, but have their own issues. The biggest being limited implementation. Plex is available on just about every platform, a lot of smart TVs & Blu-ray players that have a limited number of app options have a Plex app. While Kodi is pretty much limited to Android based devices & retooled Game consoles, Emby I think has more implementation, but not nearly as much as Plex. Both handle things that Plex just won’t (incremental episodes, or episode 4.5, support being one that made me curious to check them out) but the limited usability is a major turn off, & the clunkier interface, less pleasant navigation, & the more free, therefore more isolating to just the tech savvy, systems are big ones as well. But so far as I know they don’t have this feature either. But if you are looking for an alternative, there are options
Thank you for this, It never occurred to me to look for an alternative lol. I wil be switching to Emby from the looks of it doing a trial run now looks nice awesome support on their forums. Yea its a shame but this looks to be much better and indeed the only downside Implementation but i can live with that.
Well this is all a little bizarre.
Someone recommends an open source alternative.
And it’s cool and you’re gonna switch.
That’s all good so far apart from one glaring issue. Emby stopped being fully open source a long time ago.
However the installed version built by Emby is closed source because it contains additional modules that we’re not able to open source for various reasons. Some features have come at a great cost to build, whether that be our own development hours, or developers that we have added to our team. Other features are actively costing us money, and other features we’ve signed NDA’s for in order to utilize private api’s. Hopefully you will understand and appreciate the hard work that we’ve put into this. Thanks.
Exactly the same as plex. I would argue they are more open but lets not go down that path.
Jellybean is no where near usable.
But perhaps what i am switching to or how etc doesn’t matter. The fact that I am switching should be the point here. I have made up my mind but does not mean I do care about plex and its that what causes my anger you care for something but they have (from the looks of it) never cared about you.
So, my point was not to recommend or even endorse alternatives. Rather I was pointing out that there are alternatives. & that those alternatives do not have the feature that was being complained about (the TV per season & per episode special features).
&, just to note, the Open Source Community that was being referenced did indeed create those platforms, just like Plex, & the more successful ones are, in part, only successful BECAUSE they didn’t remain completely open.
But I was PLEXplaining that while that idea might sound obvious there are a number of reasons not in its favor.
Yeah no worries and I totally get that and I was simply pointing out that Emby is nowhere near the fully open source option it once was.
I also wanna mention that around 6 months ago (following the latest Plex debacle at the time) I had Emby running alongside Plex and was on the verge of porting all my users over to Emby ( having also looked at Jellyfin and realising how shockingly bad it was.)
I dont recall what Plex did to make me abort switching but it never happened.
One final thought though. Six months is a long time.
As Emby gets more “Plexesque” in their approach and also far slower than it was a year or so ago, I have to update my comments about Jellyfin.
Taking aside open/closed source arguments Jellyfin is now by far the faster option and works flawlessly.
If and when the next Plex faux-pas comes that irritates me too much , Jellyfin will be the route I go down, unless Emby suddenly start to get their act together again.
Finally I should mention my findings are all using cloud mounted storage and always building a fresh database. Maybe Emby is still blazingly fast with local storage but since I shut down my 160TB local server, I cant comment (nor do I care.) But on a setup like mine Emby is of late painfully slow.
The problem with that is that while it’s working fine for your particular setup, I can assure you there are just as many people having the opposite result. Being new means buggy, there are certainly a lot of bugs that just haven’t been found yet. So while Plex has holes I’d rather it didn’t I understand that it is still the most reliable solution & the most consistent. So even when the push out a stupid update for the Firestick that makes you have to navigate when opening a show to watch, I know it’s an annoyance that will be fixed. & while they don’t do everything each individual user wants, that idea that the Jellyfingers praise so much is only possible because they are new & have such a small userbase
If you have 160TB of cloud storage kudos to you, but that sounds super expensive. & I consider one of the best things about Plex is that it doesn’t use internet data when I’m in my house. Ripping a blu-ray is one thing, streaming a 40-120GB movie is quite another
Please dont misunderstand.
I do not love Jellyfin. I never did love Emby even while I used it personally.
THE by far the most important thing for me is usability and reliability. Today Plex offers me that but tomorrow or next week or next month then maybe not.
All I can say is personally Emby is slower now than 12 months ago and that was while I still had local storage and also while I still considered Jellyfin awful verging on unusable.
I disagree. Its that they know their limits client-side and didn’t decide to have clients running on “insert any niche client here”. They even show little interest in pushing the boundaries as far as Apple TV.
BUT… They have the forethought to approach the Infuse dev personally to make Jellyfin integration a thing rather than spend resources on making their own client.
Working server and limited clients with 10,000 users is no different from a Working server and limited clients with 10,000,000 users.
That was when on local back then. I’m at around 190TB now. and costs £8 a month for unlimited storage.
I have 300Mbps download. Direct playing a 4K HDR Remux at 95Mbps isn’t an issue in Plex.
I have around 400-500 of them stored on Gdrive.
I dunno what the service costs are in your neck of the woods, but I’m limited to 1.25TB/month I have the kid’s devices set to stream 720 & run a lot off my local network & I still top 1TB usage each month. After the limit is reached it’s $10 for each 50GB block. Of course I could add an unlimited package but that costs twice the cost I pay, which is ridiculous when my local server can handle 50% of that & never worry about internet outages (that happen regularly according to Fing but I rarely notice).
I’ve also never heard of a cloud storage with unlimited space, much less for so cheap
Yeah though speeds in the UK can still be backwards compared with many 3rd world countries, data caps on home connections dont tend to exists here that much any more.
I guess in that respect we aren’t too bad off here.
Nope. Anyone can sign up and it includes a domain and email
There are plenty of posts about it here especially in a thread called “why we went with a VPS”
Only that the domain is available.
Despite all the mentions of Jellyfin, I’m still in love with Plex.
My domain name and Email address would illustrate that.
