Comment on Looking to offload Plex from my gaming PC
german@pawb.social 5 days ago1GB is egregious for what amounts to a file server that can spawn ffmpeg. Plex uses like 10x less.
Python is horrible on resources and efficiency for stuff like this.
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 3 days ago
Well if you don’t have 1GB in your server and want to pay for a lifetime pass instead I guess go nuts? It’s odd that people seem to get so upset over not paying a subscription in a self hosting comm. Functionally if you don’t mind a less polished interface you could just do something like stream via VLC from a NAS too.
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german@pawb.social 3 days ago
Because I want Jellyfin to do better and people to be aware of its shortcomings so they either come and contribute to it to fix it, or at least so they can make informed choices before circlejerking around it. Alternatives are good. Critique is good. Indeed VLC and Kodi and straight up playing MKV files through a file explorer are also valid options. So is Jellyfin but with the damn caveats I pointed out and got downvoted for many times (cause Plex bad duhhh)
I have lifetime Plex pass from ages ago when it was way less expensive. If I didn’t I’d rather figure out a way to pirate or crack it - because its clients don’t notoriously suck on every platform like JF’s and it doesn’t use several gigs of RAM when scanning a library. I personally don’t give two shits about the company or the people in it. I’m a pirate, I want the nice enough experience, not a quarterly fight with self provisioned or ACME’s SSL certs and 4 competing clients or a fucking tunnel VPN to let my mom stream Love Island.
When 400 people tell you to “just go use Jellyfin” and then it actually sucks ass because you don’t have 32GB of RAM on your fucking SATA box, it’s just annoying, but when you get shat on for pointing out why exactly it sucks so people don’t step on the same rake, that’s actually just rude. When they actively fail to mention any shortcomings that’s just shilling