Victor

Definitely happy about that. Feels great to be free of “using the free tier” and to instead be using a completely free solution.

I don’t know what a streaming box is exactly but,

Most smart TVs are slow as shit at everything.

I don’t think that’s an excuse when all you need to do is show some pictures and text on screen, not even animate them. The video playing part works great, and streaming at UHD HDR 5.1 works fine. It’s just the navigation part that Plex doesn’t do well.

And like I said, it’s even less of an excuse when Jellyfin doesn’t have the same issue on the same hardware.

Another indication that Plex is doing something shitty is that the TVs own screensaver frame rate stutters when Plex is the open application. But not with any other app. So Plex clearly has some kind of working loop in the background that completely fucks its performance.

Huh. Guess I’m lucky that I haven’t run into these issues. No latency issues either, but I’m only using it on my local network anyway so I guess I’m gucci because of that fact.

Further question: do you really need to wonder if someone actually means TB or TiB? I rarely find that it matters in the great scheme of things, unless you’re buying hard drives. In which case you already know they’re using TB. 👍

I have a TV from 2019, it surely flies on that. Compared to Plex anyway, with its 1–2s just to move a square outline from one movie poster to another movie poster, same hardware, same library. It’s ridiculous. Jellyfin master race.

Also curious what kind of bugs you are encountering? I haven’t seen any as of yet. Maybe one, where you are sometimes unable to back out of playing media with the remote back button and have to aim-click it with the cursor and middle button. Other than that I haven’t seen anything else.

Does that help somehow? You find TiB easier to grasp mentally than TB?

I am really happy with Jellyfin after giving up on Plex, after realizing they really do not care about their customers/users. We have a bug on LG TVs where Plex is incredibly sluggish, both to start up and to navigate. Even moving between elements on a single screen takes like 1.5 seconds.

Been a known bug to the developers for about a decade going by the forums. Devs have responded to this. They won’t respond anymore. They don’t care.

I openly suggested in the forum posts there, that people should move to Jellyfin, and that I was doing the same. Enough is enough. Plex used to be quite performance on my TV.

Jellyfin just flies, with the exact same library access.

Edit: there’s a second bug which they’ve known about forever as well which is that Plex can’t select the correct audio track no matter which one you select. It’ll just pick English always (or perhaps the default/main track or whatever it is in a video container). Jellyfin handles this flawlessly. 👌

Yeah imma pass on this.

You built a password manager using AI? 😬

We just recently switched from npm to pnpm, due to all the supply chain attacks. I did the PR for it, even.

Our release schedule is like a year though so we don’t really have to worry much about releasing compromised dependencies. But still, better to be on the safer side.

Sure, I feel that. Are you running the version before they changed the license or whatever was the thing back then?

I’m lucky in my situation I guess, that I only need local playback and direct play.

I went with Plex for probably ten years after breaking with Emby. I ended things with them because they don’t care about their customers at all. Bugs that break the experience completely that lie untouched/unnoticed/ignored for years, and no replies from the developers. Or even developers that just stop replying to these bugs.

Switched to Jellyfin this year and it works like a charm. Only thing is it isn’t as good at noticing duplicates in my library, but other than that, works just fine. Definitely above acceptable.

Surprised people still stick with Emby.

Good luck with your eventual transition to Linux! Check in with Lemmy communities if you want help with anything!

Fully within your right. First impressions matter.

Alright, bro. I didn’t pick my own name.

Read what you will into whatever, it’s just my personal opinion.

Consistency doesn’t cancel our the immaturity for me, sadly.

What do you mean it checks out? That’s just as immature of a project name.

I can’t take this project name seriously. Like it’s made by weebly pimply teenagers or tweens.

Dude you’ve made more in 6–8 months than I had the ambition to accomplish for over a decade now, and I haven’t even started. (Two kids, there’s just no time or energy.)

You’re doing great!