• kassiopaea@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 days ago

    Jellyfin Is completely open source, fully self-hosted, and free. With Plex the software still has to phone home to a central server for authentication and some features are locked behind a paywall.

    No streaming software is going to find movies for you (without paying for content they’ve licensed) because that would be a sure fire way to get the project taken down for copyright violation.

      • kassiopaea@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        2 days ago

        While I don’t have much experience with Plex, I can say that it’s really not hard to set up Jellyfin for streaming across the internet.

        I’m running a docker container using the linuxserver.io image and all I had to do was forward the HTTP/S ports. I will grant that when a third party has to make an easy-to-use container for a service, there’s a problem to address… but if I remember correctly, Jellyfin is easier to set up on bare metal where it can use uPnP.