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People who are staying on Plex, have you tried Jellyfin? What about it do you not prefer? (real question) (discuss.online)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Honest question, because I know multiple people who are not looking to jump ship since they already have the Plex Pass.

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[–] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Jellyfin crashes when living next to Plex in Docker, something about grabbing the same transcoder or something - I forget I’m pretty removed now.

But if I can’t run in parallel, I can’t eventually make the switch, since I can’t get started. And it’s not a great time to pick up a second box just for testing.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I know telling you that "You should have done this" isn't helpful today, but super recommend Proxmox in the future. I have had containers running Plex, Jellyfin, and Emby all on the same physical host by utilizing LXCs. Migration could be rouch, but overall it's not as complicated as it sounds.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Proxmox sounds like VMs, which is a hard no for me since that’s why I went to Docker in the first place, to get away from the overhead of VMs. Am I misunderstanding?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Not misunderstanding, just not the full picture. Proxmox can do VMs, but LXCs are different thing.

    LXCs are a 'container' and have some requirements that might be frustrating sporadically, but they are much lighter. They'll present like you'd expect from a VM (Their own operating system/shell/etc) but resources are mostly shared across LXCs on a host. Overhead isn't gone, but drastically reduced. Personal experience obviously, but it's never been something I've had to seriously consider on an LXC.

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