This isn't a new update; they've discovered bugs in the previous version. If you're already up to date, you don't need to do anything.

In before a Jellyfin fan... shit

Plex urges immediate update to Jellyfin.

Just downloaded their APK to try out from their website.

Seems pretty good. I like that it can use both Plex and Jellyfin. I have instances running so it's kind of cool to be able to use either.

Also you can pick where you want downloaded content to go. And I am able to pick my SD card I have on my tablet.

So to me it's a winner.

This was November 2019. Plex clearly beating inflation.

They don't have an official jellyfin-client that can do HDR on Linux. Hence they rely on mpv-shim. Another app jellyfin casts to. Which sucks major ass.

The server can, the client can't.

And it seems they'll leave it this way coz mpv-shim "does work well". Hence my consideration to go back to emby.

Yeah exactly as you said. They point to the same media folder and both run at the same time. Seems to work fine for me fine.

I basically use Jellyfin when I'm at home right now and for anything remote I still use Plex.

I honestly think Jellyfin is nicer. It's faster and it isn't always shoving other libraries in my face. It just has my content the way I want and that's it.

I need to do the same thing, but how did you do it alongside Plex? Meaning, can it just point to the same library and neither Plex nor Jellyfin gets confused (because of one generating files or paths that messes up the other installation)?

Psh, even I could do that!

Heads to Claude Code....

It's so weird though. Do they not know it exists? Do they expect their customers not to know it exists?

When your primary competition is free (and arguably better), the last thing one should think to do is raise prices.

I can only assume that some C-suites are looking at numbers and don't know what else to do but make the product more expensive.

Seems like a big risk, how many companies have there been who offered such a thing but then went under not many years later and no longer could make good on it?

Don't get me started on the new Roku app...

Y'know, at least they invited everyone instead of just being a C-suite retreat. I guess

Hey, why do you have 2 accounts?

/s

i honestly don't know what you're talking about. server is a container on unraid and streams to various playback devices. no helpers or anything else required.

Holy fuck thats 10x what i paid

I paid $100 a handful of years ago, and it felt worth it at the time. Jellyfin has improved tremendously in that time, adding intro/outro skip, a tizen app, better collections support, and is super snappy comparatively. I thought my streaming server was to blame for the long buffer times at the start of media, but clearly not because Jellyfin starts almost as soon as the player loads in. Plex has gotten worse, more invasive, more expensive, and more sluggish since then. I'll never look back to Plex. What value they offer on top of Jellyfin's functionality (which is shrinking year by year) isn't worth the $2 per phone per month for my new users. I made the switch for ~20 family/friends, and other than the name, people only had praises for Jellyfin.

Agree, I still have my $100 pass too, but it just got to the point where I couldn't justify it anymore. I got almost ten years out of that pass, I consider that good. 10 dollars a year to support their development. Then their development stopped being for server owners like me, and I knew it was sadly time to move on.

To mpv-shim? Yeah that works but is the stupidest shit ever, sadly. Linux tho. Dunno if works fine on win without the helper.

they just want people on the monthly/yearly subscriptions.

jellyfin streams HDR just fine for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I also have lifetime plexpass but plex has pissed me off too much with recent changes that make the experience worse. the enshittification is inevitable, so i just cut my losses and am riding the upswing of Jellyfin. It's objectively not as good yet but i have found some temporary workarounds for the biggest omissions.

Bought a Plex Pass when it was $100. Pretty decent at the time, much easier to get the family hooked up to that vs Jellyfin.

And every change they've made - especially adding their own completely trash streaming library - has taken value away from that pass.

What's the point? Better off paying for Netflix at that rate for a few years

I bought my lifetime pass years ago. But, there is no way that plex is worth more than an entire computer

Mine "paid for itself" after 2 years. And that was 4 years ago