Plex has notified some of its users on Thursday to urgently update their media servers due to a recently patched security vulnerability.
The company has yet to assign a CVE-ID to track the flaw and didn’t provide additional details regarding the patch, only saying that it impacts Plex Media Server versions 1.41.7.x to 1.42.0.x.
Who the fuck still uses plex?
I still use Plex because I have a lifetime pass from many years ago and Jellyfin isn’t yet as feature-rich and accessible on all of my family’s devices.
I expect to someday migrate fully to Jellyfin once Plex is enshittified to the point is being a worse experience, but that hasn’t happened yet (with the Plex pass anyway)
I’ve never used Plex. What are some of the features that you’re missing in Jellyfin? Genuinely curious.
Honestly the primary reason is some specific device support, eg. my TV has a built in Plex app but not a Jellyfin app, so switching also probably involves new hardware. I also couldn’t get Jellyfin to work with another TV using Chromecast, but I’m getting rid of that anyway.
Otherwise, maybe you can update me on these since it’s been a few since I last tried Jellyfin, some of the things that come to mind are:
Client availability is valid. I use an android tv, that’s been easy for me. There are mobile clients for every phone and tablet.
I like Emby too, personally.
Plex4kodi there is a jellyfin like one but it is not even close.
How is this a useful comment?
From what I’ve gathered in other posts regarding Plex and jellyfin, the ones that never learned how to port forward or any other alternative solution for getting external traffic to their internal server. All the complaints I’ve read here regarding jellyfin boiled down to them relying on the Plex relay to handle the traffic for them.
People who bought the lifetime Plex pass, and have a huge group of friends and family already connected to their servers.
Didn’t stop me.
Nice anecdote.
Didn’t stop me, either.
In fact, Jellyseerr is a game changer. Wanna talk about it?
Sure! What does it do?
https://docs.jellyseerr.dev/getting-started
tldr: searches metadata websites for movies and TV shows, and then adds thing to Jellyfin.
You can even then tell your *arrrr stack
https://trash-guides.info/
to report things that succeed/fail to external services like Telegram.
https://files.catbox.moe/6758vv.jpg
What I do find weird is actually searching the Plex server I have access to for media
https://files.catbox.moe/rugpx0.jpg
Like, I could? But what I like doing is abusing another family members fibre connection to request things for both of us, that then appears in their Jellyfin magically.
Is that a fork of overseerr?
You do realize that Jellyseerr is a fork of Overseerr which was created for Plex. So this is in no way a unique feature or even an advantage of Jellyfin over Plex…
What’s the app/smart device adoption like for jellyfin these days? Plex usage for clients is really smooth. Plex comes preloaded on so many smart devices and the app ecosystem is dead simple. I can’t imagine having to walk my family and friends through setting up jellyfin.