jellyfin Jellyfin the Best streaming software for YOUR MEDIA and a great Plex alt...

[Prayag]

I am a former Plex user and switched to Jellyfin 6 months from now...I was really happy that all of media was easily accessible ,Jellyfin was customizable as hell unlike and all of my x264 media not getting transcoded while playing on any device I had.

 

Why I think Jellyfin is better the Plex:

• It is open source (so free)
• It is customizable
• You have access to YOUR MEDIA unlike Plex where you have to go to the side bar and click on more to even see you server and dogging all the extra movies that you don't have
• There are no adds
• More better UI IMO.
• Custom CSS Skin Options from which you can edit the way it looks and many community members including me have made some great Skins for it that change the way it looks completely 
• Huge plugin library
• Many clients
• Growing community

 

Jellyfin's stock looks might look familiar for some people who use Emby as it is a fork of Emby but keep in mind that they have changed the UI and the backend side of things drastically.

 

Jellyfin can run on nearly any device(as long as you don't have to transcode anything) you have and on nearly any platform(supported platform list given below). I personally use it with RPi4 4GB Ram Ver on docker with 13 more containers and a NGiNX reverse proxy(You can see their docs[link below] for other reverse proxy and external access service setup).

 

List of Supported Platform you can install the Jellyfin SERVER:

• Docker
• Debian and Ubuntu
• Arch Linux
• Fedora and CentOS
• Generic linux
• MacOS
• Windows (Portable Available)
• FreeBSD (Community)

All clients can be found at: https://jellyfin.org/clients/ | https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/index.html

Jellyfin Docs: https://jellyfin.org/docs/

Jellyfin Site: https://jellyfin.org/

Jellyfin Demo: https://demo.jellyfin.org/

 

List of community themes:

• JellySkin | https://github.com/prayag17/JellySkin
• JellyFlix | https://github.com/prayag17/JellyFlix
• Monochromic | https://github.com/CTalvio/Monochromic
• Kaleidochromic | https://github.com/CTalvio/Kaleidochromic
• Novachromic | https://github.com/CTalvio/Novachromic
• Other CSS customization options can be found at : https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/css-customization.html or you can install Skin Manager Plugin for it : https://github.com/danieladov/jellyfin-plugin-skin-manager