• jayandp@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I’m still riding Emby, but it feels like they’re also stagnating, with it taking forever(literal years) to implement some seemingly simple features. Too many times have I looked up some desired minor feature just to find out they said on the forums back in 2019 that they’re working on it. That pace might be forgivable if they were a non-profit open-source project, but they ditched open-source a while ago and have paying customers. It’s getting ridiculous.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah for me at least there’s zero reason to use Emby. It’s the worst aspects of Jellyfin and Plex put in one. It’s less polished and user friendly than Plex while not being open source and quickly developing like Jellyfin.

        • Policeshootout@lemmy.ca
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          1 year ago

          How’s the android app and casting to Chromecast? If you know… I struggle the most with casting and controlling casted material as well as scrubbing while casting.

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            it’s not brilliant but then nothing really is. you just get used to it’s little quirks.

            if you want something that just works use a UPnP media server with VLC

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, just speculation on my part. Layoffs plus all the weird features they’ve been putting out lately. Better to have an alternative ready in case something happens.

    • DanteFlame@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      Can someone convince me why jellyfin is better? Keep in mind I’m a lifetime plex pass user. And I have plex stuffed full of plugins like audnexus and YouTube metadata downloader so I can use plex as an audible service and repository for my favourite YouTube series’ or automatically pulling down YouTube podcasts and having all the metadata auto fill.

      I also use the watch together feature to watch things with a friend often and an attractive sleek UI matters more than it should.