• Dojan@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    What is the point of Plex? I just went straight for Jellyfin and it does everything I need and then some. Is it just that people went with Plex initially and then stuck with it as it got enshittified?

    • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub
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      Plex has better security, federates and shares with other plex servers and generally is less hands-on for transcoding.

      But, I don’t use it. I like Jellyfin. It’s free and while it may lack a few features, it isn’t worse by any measure.

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        8 hours ago

        generally is less hands-on for transcoding.

        Yeah, I’m not gonna give you that one. It’s a single option that you toggle. Wanna use your nvidia GPU? Enable NVENC. AMD gpu/cpu? AMF. Intel CPU? QSV.

        Really not that hard…

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        Plex has better security, federates and shares with other plex servers and generally is less hands-on for transcoding.

        Regarding security, it’d be interesting to see how secure it actually is. Yeah, the individual endpoints might be protected better, but is Plex the company maybe a single point of failure?