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How to begin setting up a media center?
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Jellyfin or Plex are great front ends that can help organize all your media.
I personally use Plex, but have heard Jellyfin is comparable 😀
plellyfin and jellyflex
Plex is way harder to set up. Their UX is a mess and hasn’t changed in 20 years. All carried over from its chaotic days as an open source project.
Jellyfin can be challenging at times, but it’s a much more modern take on the premise, as mirrored by its UX.
None of this information is accurate
I might look more into Jellyfin and see what I think because I am pretty bored of the outdated feel of Plex lately. Is casting supported well with Jellyfin? I like being able to cast my media to my TVs and smart speakers which is relatively easy with Plex. Once it's set up of course.
Yeah it does it all
Wow, that user interface looks a lot like home assistant. I wonder if they use the same framework.
Hard? I did it really easily a few years ago. The hard part is naming everything correctly, not setting it up.
With Plex it also sets up remote access automatically which I don't believe Jellyfin does.
Plex setup is literally just installing it on a machine. It took me an hour because I decided to move it to a different machine after I set it up.
Can you even watch jellyfin away from home?
Yes, but you need to know a little about network configuration to do that
You need to know a little about networking for all of this 🤷♂️
Yep it's not simple, but also not too difficult. Get a domain name and set up DNS. Open 80/443 on your router, use linuxserver.io's SWAG container for easy automatic cert generation/renewal and nginx reverse proxy to access your hosted services. Have a decent upload speed. That's about it
Obviously
I already have plex lifetime pass
For the record, a Plex pass isn't required to watch remotely....but if you like Plex, sticking with Plex is fine. Jellyfin is cool and open source, but it doesn't have any killer features that Plex is missing. They both do basically the same thing, it's the minor details that are different.
Lol, plex and hard to set up... Starting a docker container really is hard. And Jellyfin and a modern UI? Jellyfin where setting up HW decoding basically takes a degree? Come on man... Really?
Plex has a way better interface, especially on the client side