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Plex is overhauling its apps with a redesign and under-the-hood upgrades (www.engadget.com)

submitted 3 days ago by simplejack@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago (3 children)

How about iOS downloads for offline viewing? Server transcoding?

I’m a lifetime plex user but this enshitification has been increasing a lot lately.

[–] hessnake@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I can't speak for iOS but for Android the official app allows you to download the files but you have to watch them in another app. There's a 3rd party app for Jellyfin that lets you download and watch in-app. It's peak open source fragmentation.

Server transcoding is there and works great though.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not sure, I don’t use Jellyfin myself. I use Emby. It’s the more feature rich and polished older brother of Jellyfin.

I’ve been following Jellyfin’s progress because I’d like to go full FOSS but it’s still just not there yet. UI, clients, performance, all too big a downgrade from Plex still.

I can definitely recommend you look into Emby. It’s still the best alternative to Plex’s enshittification.

[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

Thanks so much for the response. You understand. I want to go OSS but I’m just not quite willing to settle for a huge feature gap.

It’s funny, it’s a race to see if the OSS can get good enough or if the commercial software gets shitty enough.

Eventually I’ll switch but the loss in feature has to outweigh the shit.

[–] 6gybf@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Yep Jellyfin offline download only shows on web for iOS and Swiftfin isn’t there either. Great project overall but this is my biggest drawback.