3 Ways to Start Your Own Plex Server 

In the interest of fairness (and in a video not sponsored by Plex) you should give Jellyfin a shake and give the community insight into an open source alternative that doesn't require an internet connection just to authenticate to its services, assuming you didn't set up your local LAN authentication settings in Server.

I find the video practically like a pure promotional video, which is probably what it's supposed to be. The negative aspects of Plex (e.g. the not deactivatable home call reporting function) and possible alternatives, e.g. emby are in my opinion in no way critically addressed and at least tried to refute. Especially because the functionality of emby and plex is practically identical.

"Legally obtained" Now the lawyers are happy

I switched to Jellyfin a long time ago. You can use it even without internet, as long as your home network works. For me that was kind of the main thing. It has it troubles with good apps though, still waiting for something to listening to my audio books properly. But movies and audio works fine :) I would love a comparison between the main selfhost streaming services. Emby, Plex and Jellyfin ❤️

It is worth noting that Anthony has a Jellyfin server. I also use Jellyfin, on his recommendation, and prefer it to Plex.

I know that this was sponsored, but usually Linus loves to promote free and open-source software, and Jellyfin is the free and open-source version of Plex. Does all the same main functionality in almost the same exact way, hardware-encoding isn't behind a paywall, multiple editions of movies has been a thing forever. It doesn't have built-in live tv channels or on-demand media, but there are ways to add live tv if you have a digital tuner or know any M3U channels

In case anyone doesn't know, Jellyfin is the only one of its kind that can leverage hardware to convert Dolby Vision P5 to SDR so you don't see green or purple tints when watching WEB-DL movies.

Man this didn't even feel like an LTT video, it felt like an infomercial featuring LTT cast. And I even like Plex already.

I'm going to jump on the Jellyfin bandwagon here. It also well deserves its own video, it is an impressive alternative that doesn't ever call home among other benefits.

I'd love to see a comparison of the popular media servers out there: Plex, Emby, Jellyfin, Others.

For anyone wondering whether to use Plex or Jellyfin, i run both simultaneously on my server so users can choose what they prefer to use. As much as I would prefer to mainly use Jellyfin, it's not polished yet such as a "Skip Intros" button which is so useful for everyone when binging a TV series. Once you setup remote access on both apps and point it to the same library locations, it runs itself.

In all fairness, I appreciate the small “how to setup” and redirects to other videos where you guys built servers, but this came across as a massive commercial for plex and not necessarily a typical LTT video. I’m sure it will be useful to someone, but this video could have been so much more.

i have been using Jellyfin for a year or so, and it has been working PERFECTLY! Open source, well maintained, and super easy to set up after fixing my double NAT.

This is exactly why it is good to have the RU-vid dislike counter extension installed. When I see a higher downvote count than normal I know to check the comments. Learned there are much better alternatives to consider than what is being pushed by just this video. I know Linus would also be in favor of having dislikes shown across the board too. Thanks commenters.

This video has been quite useful for me, but ironically more for the comments than for the content itself. I've been looking for a home media server but I kinda prefer OSS (or FOSS) so I'm quite happy to see so many people recommend Jellyfin. I'll give it a try

I'm a long term Plex user and I use option (4) not discussed in the video - I use an old PC running Ubuntu Linux and installed the official Plex packages. The same box also runs a bunch of other apps to "assist" me with keeping my TV library automatically up to date. I keep the actual media on my NAS. One feature I really love is that there is PlexAmp and Prism which both support CarPlay - so i can stream my music library in the car. My preferred playing device is an Apple TV. I also share my library with relatives over the internet. It's brilliant and works well.

Another vote for Jellyfin. Was a long time Plex user... until they redshifted their focus into being a streaming service aggregator with each new update becoming less relevant for my needs(and adding more bloat in the process).

This is nice. I liked Plex and it's been good but Jellyfin is better for me since I'm only making a media server for videos (Cartoons, Anime, Movies) on my LAN, no remote access, no forward facing anything (yet). Plus, they recently got hacked and I've been on a data privacy purge recently so, my migration is essentially done but I'm keeping Plex and Jellyfin running in tandem until I'm entirely sure that I've learned Jellyfin. The two major things that made me switch are: 1) Paywalled hardware encode. No point in this. Jellyfin does it with a simple menu option. I have a GPU in my server (an old machine picked up on Ebay) and I want to use it. I've already done the work to get GPU passthrough working and then I just can't because you want money? NOPE. 2) Paywalled to watch my own media, on my phone, on my own LAN? NOPE.

Interesting detailed presentation of a great service - but would have been fair to include a quick feature comparison with other available solutions out there, including Jellyfin, Kodi and potentially others.

Synology NAS with Plex has been a part of my network for years, couldn't be happier with it.

For anyone looking to do something like this, I would highly suggest to look at all the alternative. Not that plex isn't good but there are other options. Kodi (if you don't need a server but only local files), jellyfin for a direct plex alternative that is open source or possibly emby (never used and closed source). I would highly recommend jellyfin.

Linus: How much are you paying Google to store files? Also Linus: Promotes paid subscription service but you have to store the files yourself.

I actually like Emby much more. Plex is pushing too hard on subscription to their own content stuff. Emby has a cleaner look and seems to be more efficient. Or if some Features of Emby are not needed, the Open Source Fork Jellyfind should be a great choice too.

Hi Linus, I run a plex media server hosted in a network colocation bay with unraid and a ryzen epyc server for a few years. I've tinkered with personal pc, NAS and Nvidia Shield and I would not let the viewer believe that it is an easy thing to manage. It's only easy if the legally obtained media files are already converted in a format easy to transcode. The video transcoding can be handled by the GPU, but the tough part is audio transcoding, not video. Can only be handled by CPU, and for blu-ray HDR movies, DTS Master is really what takes the most space and takes the most time to transcode. Even with a powerful machine, 2 clients could start buffering because they are both playing high quality audio films.

I hope Linus covers Jellyfin and/or Emby at some point when talking about home servers.

The fact that Plex is paying Linus to promote their software tells you how popular free alternatives like Jellyfin are becoming.

Been using a plex for 7 years or so now I think! Considering me and my whole family make use of it, the lifetime pass has been a very useful upgrade allowing hardware transcoding of high bitrate files, and live HDR -> SDR tone-mapping for when playing HDR content on a non-HDR capable device. I do wish it streamed better with high ping clients though (streaming from my server when I'm overseas is very difficult), and also directly tied to that issue, I wish mobile downloads also worked way better...currently it's quite slow to download and fiddles around a lot trying to initialise the download to he point where it's mostly a useless feature.

I love this solution. I built a 12 TB server with 6 2TB drives, Freenas and Plex. I setup a RAID 5 configuration, so that if any one drive fails, I can recover the data. Unfortunately, I had the rare condition where 2 drives failed at the same time, causing me to loose 5TB of data. I didn't loose anything that I couldn't get from somewhere else, but it took more than a month to build that data set in the first place. Next time, I think I will setup a RAID 6 configuration that will allow 2 drives to fail and still support full recovery.

I've been using Plex for years after Linus mentioned it in a past video and they honestly have some serious problems, like how they seem to ignore what their users want and instead focus on new features that don't really relate to the what the program is meant to be. List of what I consider core features that were broken or missing for years (with plenty of posts about them) before they were fixed or still aren't: - The "sync" feature (which requires a subscription) was broken for 5+ years and only recently fixed. - The "On Deck"/"Continue Watching" section didn't have a way to remove series until recently. - Plex completely ignores JPEG tags in photo libraries (despite having a tagging system). There's definitely more I've noticed over the years but can't remember off the top of my head.

For anyone with lower budget I recommend Jellyfin, it's pretty damn good and open source. I have one set up and I can access it on all devices for free. Not an ad or whatever, but I love it.

Using plex since years. Best media plattform ever.

Would love to see a Beginners Guide to NAS video from you guys. I'm a cinephile with tons of archived media and I would love to set it up to share on my network and despite having built 7+ PCs I've never built or set up a server and am not very savvy with networking.

I personally use jellyfin which isn’t perfect but is completely and entirely free and open source. I have been using it for several years at this point and it was pretty low on issues both in setup and in use.

I had to switch to jellyfin since plex doesn’t allow HW transcoding with the free plan. It worked well with some tinkering to get Intel QuickSync to work. And it is just amazing that the little fanless J3455 can transcode 4K movies smoothly. I would still be using it like that but (not sure if it is due to the defects in that CPU) nowadays it started to throw weird machine check errors during boot and whenever the transcoding is going the system would freeze randomly, requiring a cold reset. Anyway it was a nice experiment..

I love how all the top comments are recommending jellyfin instead. Plex fails to understand that 99% of the "self hosting media" demographic is doing so because they don't want to be tied to always online DRM.

I still like plex, used it for years. Saw this video when it came out. Just watched the compilation of most disliked videos and saw that people weren't happy with this video. Just came to give a bit of support. Seeing as everyone is recommending jellyfin. Will look into it and try it out. 👍

I sort of expected you to mention alternatives (Jellyfin, Emby, Kodi) even when receiving money for the promotion. Quickly showing the others would even display that Plex is probably still the most user friendly/easiest one to setup. And yes, you at least mentioned *one* downside of them with the data breach. But that point would be *way* more relevant if you knew that there are other media server apps that do not phone home at all. Like this it just feels like a 15 minute long soulless ad, sorry.

I'd love to see the non sponsored version of this video

Glad to see a video on Plex, I use Plex for everything, Music, TV Shows & Movies as I would like to have control over the content I can stream and I find myself spending hours on streaming services just looking for a movie or tv show that looks good. I do currently host my Plex Server on my local machine with a couple 5TB External Hard Drives as the containers and use multiple off site dedicated bare metal serves in both the UK (Where I’m from) and Canada as I do host game servers too but have 2 Dedicated servers in the UK so there isn’t much strain but as for the Plex I do plan on upgrading to a separate machine so I can host my Plex server and also have a on site backup aswell as off site

I don't use google drive for the convinience of accessing anywhere. I use it because it's backed up. Setting up a home server isn't the problem, the problem is to make sure my data not get lost during my life time. Sure google can terminate their service at any time I guess.

I've used Plex since I had my first ever server, but as time moved on, we bought a 4K HDR TV and more friends and members of family started using the Plex, I decided to buy Quadro K2000 for NVENC encoding, only to find out that the encoding is hidden behind paywall, which sucks. Fortunately, Jellyfin has very similar UI (that in my experience works even better with random people, and is more smooth), is completely open-source and self-hosted AND supports hardware encoding and you can tweak ffmpeg settings if you're into that. Most I've got from it were 3 simultaenous 4K streams in full 60Mbps and a 1080p60 stream. Anything more was buffering due to crappy harddrives, but GPU was sitting at nice 40% usage. But Plex was very good, no hiccups, config problems or anything. Only the hardware encoding killed it for me. Looking back at it tho, the price isn't that bad - especially now that I'm making my own money and can justify the price (for myself lmao). But still, why pay for it when you can have it for free.

The easiest home media server is one someone else pays for and someone else sets up lmao

I looked into plex YEARS ago when windows share over android was giving me problems. I had set up a PC in the basement/TV area to watch things over the network but on my phone it wasn't working very well. I'd dig up the app I used but I forgot what it was and would never be able to remember Plex came to the rescue and made figuring out what i had on my shared drives really easy. Movies, TV shows, "Anime" etc are all figured out using existing databases you can view online (for TV for example, head over to theTVDB calm). And because I obsessively back up everything, if things fall apart I can restore everything. It's stored on a different drive than my boot drive, making it very easy to just reinstall windows and plex and point the server at the new location (recently something happened to my computer where it thought USB ports had high voltage issues, and the only fix ended up being to reinstall windows) It also meant I didn't need two computers - one server and one player to watch on a TV. apple tv or the newer chromecasts with plex app built in, plus an ethernet cable is more than enough to handle 4K streaming with very few exceptions - I think h265 doesn't play nice at 1gigabit network even though it really should. Hardware specs are also very minimal. I could probably go with something even slower, but I have a 6700k that I kept when I upgraded my PC to a 3900x (thanks to Linux' video way back in 2020 when he said BUY NOW BEFORE SUPPLY CHAINS BLOW UP). It does the job perfectly fine to the point where I will probably use it until 2025 and replace it with the 3900x. You don't need a 3900x obviously - If I could be bothered to upgrade the 6700x to W11 it would serve (hah) me well forever. The only criticism I ever had with Plex is that it doesn't do music very well. That is specifically to say that once you add anything to a music folder, it will rescan everything and *forget* (or overwrite?) your customizations. Plex didn't know what all of my classical music tracks were, and it is not worth my time and effort to fix 1000s of audio tracks every time I get a new song because twoset violin showcased it in one of their videos or I went to a concert and want to hear a recording of that piece at home. If Plex has fixed music (unlikely, but let me know) then it would be perfect. Until then, I just copy the classical music pieces I want to listen to locally on the phone.

I've been using Plex for years. It's great locally. I also love that I can visit family in another state and watch movies from my server at home. I've tried several other sorts of movie servers. I';m sure they are good for many people, but I'm sticking with Plex. Especially now that they've incorporated a 'multiple version' feature. I have 5 different versions of Blade Runner. It's nice keeping it separate. I have it running off of a 6 year old laptop with a USB hard drive on a completely different computer on my network. I can still watch 4k movies with no major issues. The only ones I run into is subtitles when watching 4k. Time for me to upgrade to a better machine for that. Otherwise, it's perfect for my needs. Would love to set up a NAS for it at some point though.

If you're watching on desktop through a browser, you should definitely install the desktop client as it greatly reduces the ammount of stuff that will need to be transcoded. Especially x265 content

I bought a lifetime Plex Pass back in '18 and I mostly love it. I wish you would have mentioned the HASSLE it is to get Plex working when your internet is down. This wasn't always the case, but they keep changing the media server

Plex has literally changed my life and the way that I consume content in the last 6 months I've created a mega Plex library of content and I use it just about every day

I would love a build guide on a recommended transcoding PC for about 2-3 concurrent outside streams at a time.

I like how Linus keeps specifying "legally obtained" media files, when he has stated multiple times that he pirates most of the movies for his server, and stopped ripping blu rays a long time ago.

Can we get a jellyfin video? It's a 100% open source project and works really well Also hw encoding is completely free

I'm running Plex Server on my last-gen Intel Mac Mini, and it does a pretty good job. It installs and stays updated like a champ with homebrew, and Subler is a great free tool for tweaking video metadata. I'm not interested in mobile access so I don't let it transcode, which keeps its CPU load down when we access it from a remote TV somewhere. Overall, it has been quite low maintenance too. I ran Kodi for a few years before I moved to Plex and I loved a lot about it, but a lot of TVs and set-top boxes don't have native Kodi ports, so it didn't work out in the end.

Main reason why I haven't swapped to Jellyfin yet is because of the incredible skip intro feature that Plex has. I know there's a plugin for Jellyfin but I still feel like Plex does it a lot better.

Imo you should at least mention that the authentication is not self-hosted, which means that your service is inaccessible when the Plex servers are down for whatever reason. This would've been a way more interesting talking point, then talking about a data breach without any consequences.

Simply replace everything he did here with Jellyfin and it’s golden.

Whoever is working on the digsites at 343 is killing it. Looking awesome

I'm still in dire need of a FreeNAS for dummies video! Can't forget Plex's leak of a couple of weeks ago either

In the vein of home media servers, I'd love to see a complete-ish tutorial on Blu-ray/ Dvd ripping and media encoding. I happily ripped most of my library before learning about forced subtitles and and to go back and do it again. Also things like HDR content, multichannel audio, proprietary codecs are all landmines for people just getting started like myself

Jellyfin is best alternative because of pay wall's of some features. It's not easier to use but it's open source and with correct configuration is better than plex. Everyone have own preferences and choose what suits better.

As much as I love Plex for its ease of usage, I'm currently using Jellyfin because most of my devices are capable of playing all my media files without the need of transcoding, and Plex tends to do transcoding even to the capable device, making it a useless process just to watch something. Jellyfin allows server to not do transcoding, acting just as a media curator. But still, setting Jellyfin is not as easy as Plex, and the feature Plex does have that Jellyfin doesn't.

I use my OG Shield TV hooked up to an external hard drive as a Plex server, and I couldn't be happier with it

I switched to Emby once Plex started adding more and more superfluous "content" (and I''ve had a Lifetime Plex Pass since forever). I prefer my mediaserver to be as minimalist as possible, and Emby kind does everything Plex does, but I find it a lot easier to configure and less resource intensive in its library management. It also has waaaaayyyy better support for 21:9 screens and maximizing letterbox widescreen movies and series. A perpetual license is quite a bit cheaper these days and supports Tonemapping, hardware acceleration and all the other goodies just like Plex does.

As someone with THOUSANDS of albums in high quality and High bitrate the plex amp app is absolutely amazing, it has been a game changer for me when I'm driving or travelling not to have to choose a few songs to put on my phone and fill it up Also the plex family option is great, I installed the app on my family's and friends computers and people just add what they want to see via chat bots on multiple apps via sonarr, radarr and subtitles and grabbed by bazarr. The comunity around the ecosystem is well worth the 50€ a year in my opinion

The writing for this felt like he was reading the manual for Plex.

Linus i think you already know that you are not only paying to access your media remotely. You are also paying for easy scaling, backup redundancy, easy integration with apps, low latency uptime, encryption utilities, and more. I'm not a Google salesman, but the whole idea to use the Cloud is that you don't need to worry about the whole management of the infra, specially worry about things like: fire, water, electrical issues that could redeem your data completely useless.

Ah this is Plex's reaction to having a data breach. I have already moved away to Jellyfin. Used to set everything up with Kodu and file shares but Plex became a much easier method of watching my content especially when out of my home network. Unfortunately however, I feel that Plex has steadily become worse over the years. If you use and love Plex, fantastic! But Jellyfin through a home VPN if you have the skillet works way better, tdarr to preconvert the entire library to easily streamable content is definitely a must no matter which method you use, my Harry Potter bluray rips flat out refused to transcode on the fly with Plex. I am on team linus that if you own the discs, you have a licence to watch it in the way you wish.

Moved from Plex to Jellyfin years ago, it's better for most things as long as you know what you're doing. NVENC works great, library management is seamless, everything is local and OSS.

i just built a server last week. still learning. i went with 12th gen i3, 64gb ddr4, open case, dual sas cards, and 157TB of helium drives on zfs. still setting up plex but so far it seems very user friendly. i ran 10gb sfp+ copper from server to switch to main computer and 2.5gb for the rest of the house (single mode buried fiber to the garage). my next step are two WAP's that support mesh and high speed xfer.

2:02 love to see clone high finally get the love it deserves, albeit 20 years late

"There is a much better and much cheaper way!" Yes, it is open source and it's called Jellyfin 🙂

I can only imagine how much money was made for this 14 minute dedicated ad video

"I'll just toss my legally obtained DRM-Free titles into the folder" - that was good XD

I want to see a "we've got a ... At home" series.. meaning a cheaper version of a larger more expensive proprietary system done on the cheap.. my suggestion is kaliedascape. I want to see it torn down and hardware detailed and make something "similar".

I use Jellyfin personally, just as easy to set up but it's free and open source

Network-Attached-Storage is the one topic I wish people knew more about. Great video!

Holy crap... I did something before Linus made a video about it! I setup my own TrueNAS server at home and setup Plex to watch my DRM free files from anywhere. The most satisfying part was temporarily moving to the middle east for 9 months and having it work from there as well. Nearly 7000 miles away

I bought a lifetime membership for 150 bucks way back when and I've been pretty dang happy with it the whole time I've been a member.

I use an old workstation in which I upgraded the processor and RAM. This has enabled me to use the machine for my media and as a private server to play games with friends. Has worked out really well.

Not quite the same but the absolute easiest home media server is plugging a usb drive into your router (if it supports it)!

Been running plex for a long time now. I also use it's dvr feature to record live tv with the wintv quad tunner card. I never miss Jeopordy again!!

Running Plex with lifetime pass on my Synology NAS for years! It still blows my wife's mind that even when we're traveling, we have access to our entire library. Tried Jellyfin about a year ago but it just felt inferior. Even the wife disliked it and asked to switch back to Plex. Also running Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Prowlarr, and Ombi. Plex Amp is amazing. It even works with android auto! Love having my entire music library everywhere I go.

I would like a video that compares Plex to Jellyfin and Emby and ect. I've been using Jellyfin for awhile now for a few key reasons. One it's truly free and open source. Two I don't care about smart TV or console compatible. I don't use smart TV apps or consoles to watch media or listen to music. Every tv in my house either has a small htpc, like a Intel NUC or Dell optiplex 3070 micro or a Android TV box device. Three I don't need to access media away from home. If I'm away from home I have a phone with a sd card slot so I have all my music on my phone,backed up on my home server. Or I'm playing games on my SteamDeck. The misses is reading on her tablet, kids both have Switches. I just needed an app or program to act like Netflix or whatever for all of my downloaded movies and series. Jellyfin does that perfectly and for free. Before Jellyfin I just had a shared network folder with folders for movies, animated movies, series, cartoons, anime.

Very happy Plex user here. Slapped an 500GB SSD and a 1TB hard drive into a 2011 Mac Mini. Loaded my 1200 CDs and untold number of ripped DVDs on each drive respectively. Great stuff.

I like the DS Video program that comes with my Synology NAS. Has its own dedicated app on Smart TVs and it's just as easy to drag, drop and customize, but it's free to use.

Happy Emby user looking forward to to seeing what the competition is like.

Been running a Plex server for five or six years at this point, after buying a lifetime pass. I've been fairly happy with it--the support for pretty much any TV or mobile device out there made it very easy to share the content with family. That shouldn't discourage you from exploring other alternatives like jellyfin, but I think most people will find Plex's convenience and ease of use worth the cost. Whenever I've had problems, the forums have been a great way to keep tabs on fixes under development--though it has taken a long time for more niche hardware issues to get sorted out.

I have used my buddies Plex server. Yes it is very useful and I am glad we have a good pal for watching media from.

Would love to see LTT taking energy consumption more into focus. Using an old PC might sounds cheap at first, but it eats up so much more energy compared to a specialized NAS or a shield - especially on these (more or less) always on devices.

I just recently went down the media home server rabbit hole myself so I'm happy to share my personal findings with folks here since its relevant, but major caveat: this is mostly applicable to folks chasing HDR/Dolby 4k remuxes (lossless ripping from a BluRay without any compression/re-encoding, massive file sizes) this would be overkill for those not afflicted with video/audiophile brain-rot. The Wifi choice: For going over Wifi, be aware that I've seen reports of 4k streams averaging 50-80 mbps but will spike 150-200+ mbps temporarily, so if your working with an older Wifi-4 module or even early gen Wifi-5 from far away you may experience stutters. As for what media device to stream to, the Nvidia Shield Pro is the most popular choice, however, I have seen a number of claims of a "red push" screen effect for those utilizing Dolby Vision, it otherwise seems fine. If you do want Dolby Vision I would check in on alternatives like the Zidoo Z9X or the Dune HD Real Vision 4k (these are purely for local playback, no Roku-style streaming), I have seen both high praise and condemnation for both products which leads me to believe that its a QC issue with a product space still wrestling with the intense strain HDMI 2.1 is putting on devices, up to you on rolling the dice. The wired choice: You can go super long HDMI 2.1 (if you've got the GPU for it) wired and hide the cable with D-line Trunking cable concealers along the accessory trim near your floor or ceiling, blends in quite well if its white. Odds are your going over 10ft so you will definitely require active (powered) cabling. if you go over 20-25 ft will need to step up to fiber optic, this is the route I'm going personally and ive settled on RuiPro's 8k fiber optic cable for a 33-50 ft run. Try to find a brand whose cables are certified if you go active or fiber. Like the wifi media players mentioned prior, QC issues of the cable dying about a year later appear common enough to warrant concern, but considering RuiPro offers a 5 year warranty that's peace of mind enough for me. Also probably plan on running this through a Denon AVR-X1700H receiver eventually, but not necessary for success in this setup. For platform playback alternatives to Plex, like other comments have said go checkout Jellyfin or maybe Kodi if they've fixed their Dolby stuff. Remember this is purely for those chasing max quality everything video playback on an OLED, you can still have a more than enjoyable experience with less expensive/extreme methods. That being said, with enterprise grade Seagate x16 14TB Exos being on sale for 200, or the probably quieter but pricier Ironwolf 12TB NAS drives going for 230 lossless max fidelity 4k storage is getting more and more affordable.

I honestly prefer the free and open source Jellyfin

Laughs in Tailscale + Jellyfin + Navidrome

The quality of these videos is unreal. I'm watching linus speak at 2x speed and its way too smooth

One thing I miss that Plex offered for a short time, was Photo backup from your Phone to your NAS which would have been a viable replacement for say, Google Photo backup, but that has since been removed a while back. Still Plex is fantastic though I do wish they would stop trying to force their streaming services over top of my own collection by default.

Anime is the one thing that's still rougher on Plex. That's usually what takes the most manual care with how much the structuring, naming, etc. can differ from Western stuff. Multi part files can also get a little wonky. Still better than dealing with a smart TV.

Thanks to the comments, I'll have to come back later. Don't really care about streaming movies etc., but being able to set up transcoding for video files in general would be pretty nice.

Jeez, the video is sponsored by plex but the comment section seems to be sponsored by jellyfin

I would prefer Jellyfin for it's free and open source nature. It's also more customisable, and has built-in hardware acceleration.

Hey Linus, next time you speak to the folks at Plex, would you please tell them we want AV1 support?

Where's the "Skip Ad" button for this 14 min ad?

Just recently started a plex server (after seeing your last video about home servers) now lots of my friends use it too

Linus... just pressure them to add playback speed functionality and I'll be way happier with my plex pass!