Great video. I have a Qnap Nas, and I have used all 3 of these applications. For me Emby is my favorite. I am a person who loves customization. I want to visually change as much as I can, and craft it the way I want it. I loved Plex, but Emby exceeded my expectations of available customizations. For that reason I don't mind paying the price for premiere. Just like a lot of services, and applications, it comes down to what your wants or needs are. All 3 of these are good, but for me Emby is my number one.
Big JellyFin fan here. Love it. Once Plex started forcing me to "login" to their app I bailed. Prefer staying offline and only connecting to my LAN so everything is well fortified.
I have a Synology DS-923+ just getting it running. Can you use a Zimaboard for hardware transcoding on Jellyfin and Emmy? I saw a video using Zimaboard with Plex. Love your videos.
I'm still a Plex user (with liftetime I got on sale a lonnng time ago) but slowly starting to explore Jellyfin. Setting one up to slowly test it out. Plex has been slow to roll out some things and seem to be focused on the wrong features for me. Example plex still doesn't work with latest over the air codec but seems Jellyfin might be able to work with some tweaking. Without any research video is already working, just not audio.
I tryed jellyfin, and i can't access to it outside my home and the help is non-existent. Did emby is the same when trying to configure remote access to my content? Did i have to configure third-party software or reverse proxy, dyndns or anything else?
I've used Emby for about three years, and while the server is competent, the clients have their problems. The version for Android TV, in addition to being paid, had a horribly optimized interface. I never considered paying for premiere because my NAS didn't have the capabilities to take advantage of the extra features of the subscription. When I changed my NAS and it had such capabilities, I realized that it wasn't worth paying for the only feature I wanted to use, transcoding. So I opted for Jellyfin. So far I'm finding him superior to Emby. Transcoding works fine and clients are better optimized. My only gripe is with the subtitles. Advanced options are only available when I choose another player (default is ExoPlayer) and subtitle options don't always work well. Strangely, the Android mobile client works perfectly.
ExoPlayer (assuming that is the default one on AndroidTV) is crap, as it will always force a trnascode no matter what if PGS subtitles are enabled. libvlc will Direct Play anything you can throw at it in my experience.
Yep would not touch Plex with a barge pole, jus too intrusive, nosy and if I understand right needs Internet access to function. Happily paid what worked out to be £99 GBP for lifetime. It is a bit annoying that have to pay for premiere to watch on iOS and Android but I would not say the cost of premium is that bad if paying for lifetime. Jellyfin needs docker on Synology which kind of puts me off a bit.
I have Emby and do not pay anything. Any of the paid options are not something I need. When I watch a movie on my phone, I watch it at 480p instead of e.g. 4K to save data. No problem ever. I also do not need to pay the app on my Android. So not sure what that 5USD is about. The best is to see if you actually need the paid things. Because it might well be that you do not need to. I know I do not need it. The only thing that is a bit of a downer is that I can not download subtitles when I am watching the video, but I can when I go to the file before I start it.
@@CyberMachine with premium you can choose to download the subtitles when playing video. On free tier you need to go to the moviedetail and download the subtitle first before playing. Not really an issue since emby will auto search/download subtitles if configured correctly.
Jellyfin is way behind in terms of features and things that are implemented does not work reliably on every device. For example the Android app is unusable on most phones I tried it on - it doesn't matter if I use web player or integrated player, if the video even starts playing, it is choppy and unwatchable. Emby is worth every penny if you don't want your media server to be a chore instead of entertainment. I switched from Plex to Jellyfin and It was the worst decision I could make - I spent more time dealing with issues than watching my media. Also no option to download transcoded version for offline viewing is a dealbreaker for me.
@@Quettesh The "Jellyfin" Android app is a wrapper for the web player, so it's crap. Findroid is a native client and works fine. I just don't have any desire to watch anything on a tiny screen, so I have no real reason to use it or care about it besides testing to see that it Direct Plays and doesn't force a transcode.
I think most people that desire/seek transcoding so so out of necessity/'just in case they need it's, than to actually choose it as an AAA+ feature. The odd train journey, the week away for work, the odd file format or compression that is a right pain to play native...that sort of thing. The percentage is probably higher than you might think, as often transcoding can be happening on things like audio without your knowing on a simplified client app on a TV etc
Not in 100% of cases. With an Nvidia Shield Pro, which supposedly doesn't support AV1, Jellyfin with libvlc is the only one of the three I've found that will Direct Play it.
