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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lack of an official tvOS app and Plex being easy to set up for my family keeps me from switching.

[–] CosmicTurtle 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I made the switch this week. Jellyfin took about 10 minutes to set up and left it overnight to scan my files. I only had to make a few corrections.

You can always try it out in a VM or container or even run both at once.

You can cast it onto a chrome cast though I haven't tried this yet.

[–] TurnItOff_OnAgain 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It has to be as easy as plex is for watching for me to switch, otherwise my wife won't go for it.

[–] Bye 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah exactly. My girlfriend is not tech savvy. It needs to be as easy as Netflix, meaning I need it to run on the smart tv.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Casting is as easy as it is on plex, I have a plex lifetime pass and can't think of anything useful it does that jellyfin can't do too.

[–] quinkin 1 points 1 year ago

I use the jellyfish app on both chrome tv and fire tv sticks. Works great. I did have one issue and had to set the default playback in both apps to something (internal?) to fix some audio sync issues.