Anybody else had this issue.

I have a media server setup with Plex and Jellyfin and now people here prefer Jellyfin but Plex is available on more devices and my users prefer it.

Now I tried watching several movies on iPhone via Plex app and it kept freezing and I had to exit and start again and half the time it wouldn’t remember where I was. I tried to watch the same movies on Jellyfin, again on iPhone and no issue.

Any thoughts? I did watch a movie at my friends on Plex through Firestick with no issue so not sure if it’s iOS or my home network and Plex or something else.

  • fennec@lemm.ee
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    8 days ago

    Jellyfin is avaliable on almost everything as far as I am aware (excluding games consoles). Havent used Plex much but I know for Jellyfin the majority of my users issues relate to iOS. Id check your encoding of the specific file they have issue with M series macs can be weird with certain encodes of h.264 for example or a specific audio type. Here is a decent breakdown of codec support by client/browser https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/codec-support/

    • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
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      8 days ago

      Jellyfin isn’t available for Samsung TVs or Hisense TVs. Yes, this can be solved by any Android TV box but they likely don’t want to.

      I’ve given someone a FireTV stick and they still used the built in OS until I gave it to someone else. (And then they wonder why I can’t do anything about ads for them, but that’s besides the point.)

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      8 days ago

      Most of my plex users stream via Playstation, an area where Jellyfin has essentially been locked out. I let my users know how they can access my Jellyfin for the upcoming loss of remote play, but almost all of them opted to just pay the $2/mo to keep using their Playstation client.