I have a Plex server running on Mac OSX. Whenever I want to add media, I remotely connect into the Mac, login to my private tracker, download the torrent, wait for it to finish, then update my Plex library.
I’m hopeful that there’s an easier way. I’m imagining a way I can remotely tell the Plex server what I want to watch and it takes it from there. Does such a thing exist?
Switch to Jellyfin. Plex doesn’t need to know that you yanked some MP4s. And also, set up the *arr stack.
Jellyfin and Linux folks can’t help but tell people to switch to their service regardless if anyone was asking. Obnoxious userbases.
OP is asking for help with Plex. It has nothing to do with Jellyfin. Go away.
Hey let me just say that jellyfin is shit. It’s shit and it sucks ass. Thanks 👍
I’ve never used Plex. I’m curious what issues you’ve had with jellyfin that makes you say this. I’ve had nothing but positive experiences with it, along with a friend who’s been using it a lot
It’s a hammer in search of nails. If you don’t want transcoding it simply doesn’t work. It’s nice that it exists and works for some people, but I despise ‘solutions’ that have no reason to exist except the devs needing an excuse to do thins they like. If jellyfin had a normal, regular, honest and simple option to just turn off transcoding I’d probably switch to it (even if the library scan process takes days instead of seconds). I don’t want to transcode anything ever, I use things in my lan, my devices can play all of the formats in my librabry - this is like archiving and unpacking every single file I move around on my pc.
Now plex is not opensource freeware nice things - it does what I tell it to do. That’s about it
If your client device supports the format the media is in, Jellyfin doesn’t transcode it. You can also disable transcoding entirely, if the user doesn’t want it.
Library scans also take just a couple seconds, and that’s on the old 2016 quad core desktop I nabbed out of the trash at my workplace. If yours was taking longer, it indicates an issue with your PC.
What other bits of misinformation do you have to share?
I can’t disable transcoding globally, I have to mess with horrible config menus on every client I want to use. Library scans take more than 30 minutes on my i7-4790k NAS - after that I just stopped and removed the jellyfin server from it. Just being open source is not enough. Once it starts working as a user-first app I’ll gladly switch over.
I see what you’re saying. I don’t really mind doing the transcoding but I’d never looked to turn it off. Maybe it’ll be a feature added at some point.
You may disagree but I’m of the opinion that making an open source version of an app is enough of a reason to warrant it’s creation but to each their own of course. Thanks for sharing your input.
You can already disable transcoding, and it doesn’t transcode at all anyway if your device can handle the format. The person you responded to is just an idiot.
I know I was having issues trying to transcode media the server wasn’t able to transcode. I didn’t know it wouldn’t transcode period if device could handle it. I feel like I was always transcoding no matter what but maybe not the case. I certainly would not consider myself an authority on the inner workings of Jellyfin
Jellyfin has come a hell of a long way since it first forked from Emby. sure its not as feature complete and polished as plex but it’s far from shit, and it’s free and open.
I run both side by side with several clients on each and have been a plexpass holder since 2013.
No. If yours ask for help, then people are going to give it, and there’s no reason for them to avoid giving their own opinions on what’s better. If yours don’t like it, don’t ask for help.
Go away.
Lol what help was provided? It was just Jellyfin spam that had nothing to do with what OP had asked.
If you just replaced Jellyfin with some obnoxious VPN voucher in that comment it would be obviously spam but because its something you like you can’t seem to see it.
If OP had been asking about Jellyfin and someone thought it was “helpful” to suggest they switch to Plex I would of said the same thing.
I’m going to keep pushing Jellyfin over Plex anytime someone posts something that mentions it, as it is the obviously superior choice. I don’t care if you disagree.
You have two choices. Block me and ignore it, or fuck off. I don’t care which you choose, because I’ll quickly forget you even exist unless you bother replying, but you don’t have any power to make me do otherwise. So you might as well save yourself the trouble.
Corpo bootlicking scum.
Lol butthurt much? If you really didn’t care you wouldnt have felt the need to lash out like a child.
As good of a product as jellyfin might be, every time I run into someone promoting it I am reminded why I never use it.
Jellyfin is wack shit lol
It’s a good start but feature wise it has a LONG way to go.
Jellyfin users are as bad as vegans. No one fucking cares lol
For not caring, you obviously felt the need to write a comment. Just can’t get Jellyfin out of your mind, huh?
More like Plex lives like a boogieman rent free in the heads of jellyfin users to where if someone so much as asks a question about Plex, jellyfin users just have to come and shit all over the thread.
Come back and do that shit when the product is actually better. It isn’t even feature parity yet.
Jellyfin has every feature Ples does, and more, since those features are free.
Lmao ok buddy. Whatever you say.
Why would OP want to downgrade?
Because Plex doesn’t need to know what you’ve stolen. And it’s proprietary garbage.