And they wonder why we walk with a pegleg…
(And that “watch similar movies” thing can go to hell too)
ETA:
Jellyfin is great, yes.
Is jellyfin considerably better than plex for local and offline usage?
Better is subjective.
Simpler in a more streamlined sense, yes. Plex is more hands-off, and is doing a lot behind the scenes to automatically configure itself to your hardware for the best transcoding experience and such.
Jellyfin needs a little more work but can get there, it just needs to be shown the hardware and be configured correctly, but I find Jellyfin to be simpler and less cluttered overall when properly finished, with less strings attached to a parent company.
Personal preference, really. For me, jellyfin is much simpler to use, very easy to self-host in docker. And the clients are great too. I use desktop, android and roku regularly.
Client apps are more limited but otherwise floss purist swear by it
Any difference in remote access? I think you gotta pay plex for that.
I remote access jellyfin just fine. Got a reverse ddns proxy on my synology nas so you can probably do the same thing for free.
That’s also true.
Remote access is above my pay grade though.
