2025-02-28, 04:56 AM
(This post was last modified: 2025-02-28, 05:01 AM by Efficient_Good_5784. Edited 1 time in total.)
(2025-02-28, 03:14 AM)AlfredaWeimann Wrote: Bonus question: is the webos app any good? My main device used for Plex is LG TV and I want a native app, not the built in browser.You'll be a bit disappointed then as the webOS app will just use the webUI in most ways.
If you want a Jellyfin app built with a GUI for TVs, the best one will be the Android TV app.
If your TV doesn't support ATV, you can always buy something like an Nvidia Shield to be able to use the ATV app.
To move onto your main question, you will probably have an easier time seeing for yourself.
You can run both Plex and Jellyfin at the same time to see which you like better (or if you like Jellyfin at all).
Jellyfin can store metadata (optional) next to the media locations. So if you want to test that out without interfering with Plex, you can always test on a small set of video files in a new folder just for Jellyfin.
In my opinion, the biggest change for you will probably be how your media are sorted and stored on your drives.
Jellyfin requires that you separate your episodic shows from your movies in order to accurately get metadata from providers online.
You can see how Jellyfin expects you to store and sort the files here:
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows/
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies/
Another big change would be that you need to setup your own external access (if you want that).
Jellyfin doesn't have anything for remote access. It's up to you to setup a VPN or reverse proxy for your server so you can access it outside of your network.
You can simply open a port on your router to the outside world to access Jellyfin that way, but we don't recommend that as you're exposing it directly to bots that will attempt to break in.
As for clients, you'll probably want to use Jellyfin Media Player on a PC.
JMP uses the webUI, but replaces the player with MPV. It can direct play a lot of things.
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-media-player
You can also check out MPV Shim, which is a casting client for PCs (that also uses MPV): https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-mpv-shim
In terms of mobile support, the official Jellyfin Android and iOS apps will also use the webUI.
You can check out 3rd party apps to see if you like those better for phones.