Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee.

If anyone needs it: https://jellyfin.org/

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    4 hours ago

    Jellyfin users, how is the transcoding situation? I have a mix of AV1 and H265 and I need to get smooth playback to my living room Apple TV for families’ sake.

      • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        9 minutes ago

        Just as long as you’re fine with your media server absolutely eating power all the time

        Stop encoding in av1 and get a low power older intel chip around 10th gen or so with quick sync. Unless you have like 5+ users watching 4k media at the same time this will handle transcoding absolutely fine while using far less power than a dedicated gpu

    • Drun@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      If you’re ok with Plex, then you’ll be ok with Jellyfin

      And we also have metadata manager, so you don’t have to rename your TV show files every time!

      • WhyAUsername_1@lemmy.world
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        3 hours ago

        Infuse is not free. I love it and use it on my Apple Devices, but just wanted to have this as an FYI.

    • Domi@lemmy.secnd.me
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      4 hours ago

      I can’t speak for client capabilities on Apple devices, but what’s your server hardware? CPU or GPU transcoding?

      I have an AMD GPU in my server and have no issues transcoding AV1 and H265 for my lesser capable clients.

      You can also setup Jellyfin in parallel to Plex and give it a whirl.

      • TeddE@lemmy.world
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        3 hours ago

        You can also setup Jellyfin in parallel to Plex and give it a whirl.

        Usually. When Plex leaked that they were selling user data, I was running Plex server on an Nvidia Shield, a unique build of Plex that ran as a core service of the Android device. There ain’t no Jellyfin analogue of that monstrosity.