[HN Gopher] How to Setup a Plex Media Server on Raspberry Pi
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How to Setup a Plex Media Server on Raspberry Pi
Author : _xerces_
Score : 24 points
Date : 2023-08-27 16:28 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| irq-1 wrote:
| What do people think of https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin ?
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| It's open and doesn't require an account like Plex.
| sokoloff wrote:
| I'm a long time Plex user (bought a lifetime pass for $75 some
| number of years ago).
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| I periodically try jellyfin, usually after plex does something
| else annoying to its userbase, and keep coming back to plex.
|
| Jellyfin's menus experience, particularly the cover art and
| metadata matching, seems to be worse than plex's and I haven't
| bothered to figure out what the difference is.
| upon_drumhead wrote:
| Jellyfin's metadata matcher doesn't handle Plex's filename
| format well at all. Renaming everything to the preferred
| jellyfin form and it works much better.
| dc3k wrote:
| Their Apple TV app is pretty bad compared to Plex, and that is
| like 99% of my usage.
| philwelch wrote:
| Swiftfin fixes this.
| dc3k wrote:
| Swiftfin is what I was talking about. The "Jellyfin Mobile"
| app doesn't support Apple TV at all, and Swiftfin is a far
| worse experience than Plex's Apple TV app.
| airpoint wrote:
| It really doesn't.
|
| In my experience Swiftfin on ATV is at least ten years
| behind Plex in terms of functionality, reliability, codec
| support, UI polish and overall UX.
| petepete wrote:
| I'm enjoying Jellyfin so far. The one thing I can't work out is
| why hardware transcoding isn't working.
|
| I'm running the latest TrueCharts release on TrueNAS Scale with
| a CPU that supports Intel QuickSync (Xeon E-2324G) but no dice
| yet. Whenever 'Enable hardware encoding' is checked everything
| stops working. Not sure if the problem is with TrueNAS Scale or
| Jellyfin but there isn't an abundance of information/guidance
| out there just yet.
| alex3305 wrote:
| I'm unsure what a 'TrueCharts' is, but if it's anything
| Docker based you probably need to mount the Intel GPU device.
| You can do this pretty easily with a device mount:
| `--device=/dev/dri`. Another issues that may occur is that
| `/dev/dri` has insufficient permissions for Docker or that
| the device driver hasn't initialized.
| captn3m0 wrote:
| Not for Intel, but if you use an nvidia card, you can also
| use '---gpus all' with the nvidia container runtime. https:
| //wiki.archlinux.org/title/docker#With_NVIDIA_Containe...
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| The official JellyFin docs suggest using ---device for
| docker/Intel cases:
| https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-
| ac...
| MattPalmer1086 wrote:
| Haven't tried it for several years. I really liked it, but it
| simply wouldnt play some of my videos and the sound wasn't
| always in sync. Plex just worked.
| jquaint wrote:
| Long time plex user,
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| Jellyfin has been on the upgrade list for a while. I think what
| keeps me on plex is the level of integration.
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| i.e. home assistant, works on all my devices etc.
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| As much as its a little older, I find it just kinda works and I
| haven't really found any reason to upgrade yet.
|
| also bought the lifetime pass so I get a bunch of extra
| features.
|
| The company has been pretty decent with new apps and features.
|
| I.e. the plexamp is amazing. Full poweramp like interface and
| feature richness from a self hosted music library. Feels like
| better self hosted spotify
| dewey wrote:
| I'm in the same boat as you with the liftime plan. Plex felt
| a bit like it's losing the focus I care about a bit in the
| previous years (Integratin free ad supported streaming, FAST
| etc.) but so far it has been not intrusive and I don't really
| have a reason to look at alternatives as it's working nicely
| and their Apple TV app is solid.
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| As long as they don't complely pivot away from the "self-
| hosting your media collection" use case I care about, I'll be
| a happy user.
| upon_drumhead wrote:
| I walked away from plex after Little Snitch notified me
| that Plex for Mac was connecting out to plex's servers
| every time I took an action in the client (search, select
| media details, start playback, stop playback, pause,
| rewind, etc).
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| I know they claim it's all anonymized and no media file
| details are shared with third parties, but I don't feel
| there's any reason for them to get the details at all.
|
| Plus the privacy policy doesn't cover anything at all when
| using the plex media matcher (default now). That usage
| sends the raw filenames of _everything_ in your library to
| plex and they don 't say a single thing about what they do
| with the data.
| oaththrowaway wrote:
| I prefer it to Plex. It really depends on your clients though.
| I primarily use it on Android TV and Kodi clients.
|
| I ditched Plex after I couldn't watch my own media when I lost
| internet at my house.
| iAkashPaul wrote:
| Been using it at home with my MacBook via docker compose, got
| tired of my TV not being able to handle more than 4gigs of
| recorded 4K media from a variety of sources.
|
| Simply map a volume to your local folder & bring up the
| service.
| gjsman-1000 wrote:
| I moved from Plex to Jellyfin, and to be honest... it's mostly
| felt like a downgrade.
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| I've had tons of transcoding issues I've never had with Plex.
| Particularly with 4K. It was problematic with Plex, but
| Jellyfin on Android TV is often just completely broken, or has
| glitches in the video stream. I've tried different backend
| players, no dice.
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| I've had audio lag issues with Jellyfin that I've never had
| with Plex or other streaming apps.
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| Plexamp was awesome. Jellyfin's music player is barely
| functional.
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| The item matching in Plex was sometimes strange. Jellyfin feels
| like it would rather pick an obscure stage production from 1947
| than to pick a Disney movie from 2019. The music matching in
| Jellyfin is, for me, broken 50% or more of the time. I hope my
| tastes in Classical Crossover aren't that obscure.
|
| I don't have an Apple TV; but for the love of Pete, I would pay
| so much if Infuse finally supported Music.
| upon_drumhead wrote:
| Infuse does support Mac,
| https://apps.apple.com/app/id1136220934 , however, I hate how
| it needs to 'cache' the library locally and do delta syncs
| with JellyFin. It's brittle and just fails and has to re-scan
| the library pretty often.
| PUSH_AX wrote:
| It's much better than plex
| IndySun wrote:
| >PUSH_AX
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| It's much better than plex
|
| Is'it's' 'Jellyfin'? And better how? Thank you.
| pilooch wrote:
| Agreed. And solid, very little to no maintenance. My biggest
| respect to the team behing jellyfin !
| powersnail wrote:
| I like Jellyfin. I've got some TV shows, movies, and anime, and
| it's been working smoothly. Even hardware decoding with NVidia
| works fine. The cover art and metadata are fetched correctly,
| but granted, I only have popular titles. I don't know if it
| still works as well for indie or esoteric works.
| rcarmo wrote:
| As much as I love Pis (I have six or seven around doing home
| automation, 3D printer servers, etc.), I should point out that
| just about any cheap Intel with QuickSync support will do
| hardware transcoding vastly better (I use an Intel(R) Atom(TM)
| x5-Z8350, which is way worse than the current crop of sub-$200
| miniPCs).
| andrewfromx wrote:
| pretty cool, didn't know about https://www.plex.tv/
| pengaru wrote:
| Raspberry Pi in my experience (4b) is less than ideal for audio
| playback duties.
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| Pops and clicks from buffer underruns have proven quite difficult
| to 100% eliminate.
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| I think it's primarily due to some devices being pinned to CPU0.
| You can run irqbalance, but not everything can be moved around.
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| nicechianti wrote:
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