I've spent years using Plex as my home media server, running into every issue imaginable. Today it just refused to work at all.
So I decided to try Jellyfin and got it up and running in 30 minutes and it runs perfectly as a drop-in replacement for Plex. I should have just done this to begin with FML.
Been using Jellyfin here for many years and everyone loves it. It just works. And no third party involvement.
It's the third party that kept wrecking me with Plex. I'm loving Jellyfin for that reason exactly, and it hasn't even been an hour 😂
Jellyfin is getting closer to the same feature set as Plex, while Plex is going through enshittification, so it absolutely makes sense. I'm migrating a few people right now. The only downside is securing the service when you have non-tech family members using it. Tailscale (or something like it) is easy for folks like us, but trying to explain it to my mom... >.<
Setup a tailscale node at their location & reverse proxy whatever services you need locally to your mom's LAN 😉
I had to manage a Jellyfin instance once for a work project a couple years ago. I love that project.
Jellyfin is great. I wish emby was open source because it's client apps are way more functional. My only gripe with jellyfin.
The only feature I miss in Jellyfin is support for client certificates / MTLS in the Android clients.
And maybe better search filters.
