Hello everyone, Plex has a "feature" called passout protection but disabling it is hidden behind their paywall. Does Jellyfin allow for continuous playback until manually stopped?

I'm debating whether or not to buy Plex pass lifetime right now because it's on sale. But $95 is a lot of money just to be able to prevent Plex from stopping playback after 3 hours. If Jellyfin allows that I'm going to switch immediately but I can't find any clear answer to this question. Thanks for any help!

Update: Thanks for the responses. I've got Jellyfin set up now and just need to put some time into tinkering with my files to fix a few metadata issues.

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[–] b41b76cf 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There's this open feature request for the passout protection feature:

https://features.jellyfin.org/posts/814/are-you-still-watching-prompt

So I guess that probably means things will play continuously?

Personally I've never noticed it stopping, it just autoplays the next episode until they run out, but perhaps I've never watched for long enough in one session.

I think on an ideological level you should give jellyfin a try regardless of this feature because it's completely open source and community driven, no features are pay walled.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I can confirm that jellyfin continues playing until it is manually stopped. I once had it play for 12 hours straight without any interaction so I think it is fair to say there is no limit.

[–] Klaatu 3 points 6 months ago

Excellent, thank you for the confirmation!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I can’t speak for all Jellyfin clients since I only use Android TV and Windows clients but on those two platforms you can tell Jellyfin to continuously play or to stop/prompt at the end of each episode.

[–] Klaatu 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Ah, yeah I guess I probably should've specified my client sorry about that. But I would be using Android TV. I'm specifically looking to leave playback going over night while I sleep because I like the background noise so this answers my question and saves me a bunch of money. Thank you. Looks like I'll be switching!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

The AndroidTV client does notably have a quirk in that it'll stop playing at the end of a season if doing an autoplay of a TV show and playlists don't seem to work for TV shows yet, so unless you've got something with long seasons you can put on, it might be best to make a collection and play that.

[–] WhyAUsername_1 1 points 6 months ago

Off topic: Few Android TVs also have "Audio Only" mode.

If all you need is sounds, may be check this out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I use Jellyfin more for music than for video, but it generally keeps going till I tell it to stop or I have a network error. Some clients have a sleep timer to stop playback if you need it.

[–] Humorless4483 2 points 6 months ago

Yes it works, once I fell asleep while watching a show and found myself on the end of the next season because it didn’t stop the playback