I have setup Jellyfin as a docker container and will bind-volume the same locations as Plex, but I was interested in anyone’s perspective having made the switch in the last year or so.
What are some things you miss, what are issues/benefits you hadn’t expected?
The UI on both the NVidia Shield TV and LG webOS apps is much, much snappier for one. There was always a bit of lag navigating the Plex UI.
I have had some issues with subtitles though; Watching a series and going to the next episode, the selected subtitles language won’t persist, and trying to pick the subtitles doesn’t work without backing out of the episode, starting playback again and picking the subs.
Also, Plex had the builtin subtitle search feature which Jellyfin doesn’t have. There’s a plugin, but it doesn’t seem like you can use it on the TV app, only on the web UI.
Still, even with these sharp edges, using Jellyfin feels much nicer and cleaner, as I really wasn’t feeling the commercial / forced account creation / data collection / ads aspect of Plex.
Subtitles had been my main issue with Jellyfin.
I don’t personally care, but my wife is all about the subtitles so that makes it a big issue for me!
For the language, I went in and set it for my user for the subtitles and audio.
I also have bazaar setup to clean up the subtitles.
Bazaarr is a good tip and I’ll look in to that, thank you. I’ve found Jellyfin’s external subtitle plugin to be hit and miss.
I used to have subtitle management issues, but now I use mkv files so that I can include the original subtitles from my discs. You can use settings in Handbrake to control size and quality. This doesn’t help of course if you aren’t using discs…
funny, I have the exact same issue with subtitles and needing to back out and back into the video, but on plex