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Jellyfin is not just good... but better than Plex now?! (vger.social)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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I've feel like I've used Plex forever. I also feel like every couple years I try Jellyfin to see how it's going. Recently I tried it again because of Plex restriction on more than one user.

Well, I just tried it again and it's substantially improved! This time it actually properly detected most of my library!

Also the Android TV app is AWESOME! No more glitches, lagging, and freezing trying to play my stuff like Plex did. It is butter smooth.

Wow! I'm impressed and I just deleted Plex. Good riddance.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How long did you give it? It indexes the library. I had to rebuild my library once, and while I don't have a huge collection - mainly just rips of my DVD collection, about 450 films, and it takes over an hour to index everything. Until it's done, not everything shows up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I didn’t give it very long but it was literally just 3 films and 1 TV show

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

How many episodes in the show? Depending on the hardware, that could take a few minutes. If it's trying to index over a network mounted drive, it could take a long time. My material was mounted locally over USB3 on an older 16-core Ryzen machine.

Once indexing is done, it's fast, but there initial indexing can be slow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Not that many, 6 seasons with 6 episodes each and a few specials. Maybe I do just need to leave it longer though, I’ll try again at some point

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Start it up before you go to bed. If it isn't indexed when you wake up, it's just not going to work for you.

Jellyfin is pretty good about preserving the index; you only really pay a cost during that first start up, or if you shuffle content around on the storage. Otherwise, it only indexes new stuff, which should be mostly not noticeable.