I have both. I never touch Jellyfin. Plex is just better experience in every way. If Jellyfin was as good as plex I would use that because I agree more with the philosophy.
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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Jellyfin if you do not like being spied on by your self hosted media library. Plex if you do like being spied on by your self hosted media library.
Also - Plex if you want Audiobooks, because the app Prologue is 🔥
I tried setting up both for a local music server last year, and found Plex's cloud requirements and constant upselling were more of a pain than it was worth. Jellyfin was the one I kept.
I was left unimpressed by jellyfin's photo and video capabilities. Tags detection often was inconsistent/incomplete and metadata retrieval to fill the gaps made things worse in many instances. If you want something specialized for audio, that has great support client side, you should give airsonic-advanced/navidrome/subsonic a shot
Jellyfins Xbox app is unusable and afaik there's no app for Samsung tvs or at least not older ones.
Hmm how old is your Samsung TV? Jellyfin doesn't have an official app that you can find in their app store however you can side load it (it's called jellyfin tizen)
I'll be honest and it was far from an easy task to side load it and I don't actually remember how I got it installed in the end but it is doable and works great
Try both, but personally I had trouble with playback on my older android tablet with jellyfin and so I went with plex which works for me.
If you're satisfied with Jellyfin, you should stick to that cause Plex ain't bringing much to the table in all honesty. I still use Plex cause it works better most of the time really.
Jellyfins OTA and DVR are a dumpster fire. So if you want to watch and record OTA TV go with Plex.
I thought they disabled plugins including for IPTV?
If they did good, because they didn't work on any of the three or so versions I tried.
I only gave a half assed attempt. I just use VLC for IPTV and have to accept it won't downscale the bitrate over a mobile connection sadly.