For anyone looking for Plex/Emby replacement, whose developments have gone astray.
For those unfamiliar, Jellyfin is a libre fork of Emby, which (similar to Plex) has gone closed-source, resorted fully to the freemium model, to the point where it’s literally not possible to use the free version, started including tremendous amounts of telemetry (mostly Plex).
And just on a basic level, it sounds a bit ridiculous to pay for software for media that you provide yourself hosted on the hardware that you provide yourself.
Anyway, the project is kind of in the early state, but the development is rather fast, just in the couple months that I’ve been using it a lot of things have been improved/introduced, most important for me being:
- iOS clients have been released
- pause/resume is now universal across all devices for the same user (i.e. start playing on one device, continue watching on another one from the moment you stopped)
There’s native support for Linux, macOS and Windows (why would you use those?) and Docker and Kubernetes images available.
Anyway, the developers are committed to keep the software libre forever, so that’s a nice thing :)
btw are we posting software recommendations here?
I use this w/ linux, android, and chromecast, def a fan of it. It has good plugins too like opensubtitles, and its found a lot of subs I hadn’t expected.
The only negatives I’ve found are that its pretty bad at holding large libraries. I tried to add some large picture and music folders to it, and had to remove them bc the whole thing got slow and buggy.
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Nothing wrong with posting great software here, so long as it’s libre! It’s such a shame when a free software project goes astray. It’s the reason why I greatly prefer the GPL over BSD and MIT licenses. Glad to see a new project coming up to replace the other one.
aren’t there ways to go closed-source with GPL and BSD?
With BSD there are, but with the GPL, only the licensee can go proprietary. If they choose to do that however, all previous versions of their software remain GPL, and thus anyone can easily fork it and continue development as free software. It’s why I prefer GPL to BSD.
Does anyone know if there’s a way to sync pause/resume for everyone watching at a time? I’m kinda desperate to get some corona watch parties going with my friends but VLC is not being friendly about streaming… couldn’t figure out what jellyfin supported from docs :crying cat:
I remember there being some discussion about group sync’d watching but I don’t think jellyfin supports it yet.
in case anyone sees this–I sniffed around github a bit; they’ve implemented it! they’re targeting the 10.6 release for it. if the 10.6 release takes about as long as 10.5 did (a very shaky assumption) that’ll be out early July. since I think we’ll still be pretty locked down by then… exciting stuff
nice :)
