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Unless you enable unPnP which is a security risk, you have to manually port forward or setup a remote server yourself. And unless you know what you're doing, you might open your network to potential hackers. Make sure to read up on reverse proxies or how to set up a vpn with Jellyfin. See More
Love the simplicity. My data my control. No phone home from software. Don't miss plex and emby AT ALL! See More
I am using Plex for 3 months now. Installed on a dedicated server i share my library with all my friends. See More
More hardware requirements on Plex due to a useless/non-intuitive transcoder. When using lower spec hardware (eg SBC) Plex will not transcode or play HD+ videos. When compared to other packages (eg Jellyfin which transcodes nicely using FFMeg), Plex falls short on video playback and transcode settings to get videos to play (fastest/lightest option still fails). See More
I tried using Windows Media Player to stream my media when I got my first smart TV some years ago, and it almost worked. But it was very picky when it came to the different formats and updating media library, and I went looking for something better. I found Serviio and haven't looked back because it just works. It plays pretty much any format that I throw at it, refreshes the library automatically or you can force it to refresh right away after adding a file. I particularly like that I can organize the files in any way I can think of, and choose to hide/show categories so that the path to the files that I want takes the minimal amount of steps. In 5+ years of using Serviio, it crashed only once, after an update clashed with JAVA version on my PC. Other than that the only performance issues I have are with the large files (1080p HD) that have a lot of high-pitched background noises. In these cases the video sometimes "stutters" - I think it has to do with the fact that my wi-fi router is quite far away from my TV, I tried once getting it closer and that seemed to fix the performance. But in all these years I haven't found enough motivation to buy a signal booster/extender, so it must not be a big enough problem :) See More