oh that is awesome! I guess I’d still have to manually input a (dynamic) IP for anyone outside of my local, but that is an awesome work around to know, thanks!
This is why I’m not quite ready for Jellyfin as a main platform. It’s pretty good, but I’m still getting a handle on how this all works.
I’ve played with it a bit, and am in the middle of upgrading my setup and will probably run both in parallel. My biggest issue with Jellyfin is the app UI is just miles behind Plex right now. I have a fair amount of people that use my server, and there is no way I could get them to use a Jellyfin client. That and, while I kinda mostly know what I’m doing, heavy emphasis on “kinda”.
But I rally like Jellyfin in concept, and I’m excited to have some proper dedicated hardware to get to know it better!
Agreed, BUT: I am really concerned about how much data Plex has, especially with their push to go legit. I set up a pi-hole and plex sends out a good amount of analytics. They know what you’re watching, which means it’s possible they’d have to share that information.
Also, if plex goes down so does your server. I love plex but if any of the 100% self hosted stuff catches up I’m absolutely jumping ship.
I didn’t know you could do this… shit there goes a bunch more hours of my life…
Fantastically helpful and really helping my learn the system. Thanks a ton!
That makes sense. I’ve been looking at upgrading the card on my usual desktop (current card is a GeForce GTX1060 3GB). If I can find a deal on something non-nvidia I’ll get something directly for the plex box though.
I had banked on all of that RAM and processor headroom being able to have it function well as a server despite the graphics card (and it did a good job encoding and sending OUT streams), but I’m still learning what does what in this whole chain. Thanks for all your help!
they were indeed both direct playback, but it’s resolved(ish)! Take a look below.
Update: I adjusted the settings in the HTPC client to force a lower quality (the TV that’s hooked up to is only 720p anyway). Smooth as butter. I think it was definitely what you were saying and forcing a conversion was a good workaround.
To anyone else who’s reading this and me see a related issue in the future: I also have an issue on this box where I can’t get my display to output at the actual resolution of the TV. The system insists on outputting 1080p, and when I manually adjust the display settings it goes black.
It works fine for some reason though. I mention for future folks because I suspect (based on the above input) the HTPC client may be taking cues from the system setting, which is wrong.
In any event, the HTPC might still think it’s outputting to a 1080p display but with the forced conversion it’s operating just fine. THANK YOU.
edit: I wanted to add I had done this from the menu available while watching a video, and it didn’t work. I had to do it at the main settings with no playback going.
This would definitely make a ton of sense! I don’t know how to validate but that’s exactly what it seems like.
Im running a dell precision 5810 with an nvs 310 for graphics and 64gb of ram. Using plasma as a DE if that trips anything up.
To each their own and all that, but for my time, I agree with you Plex still has the edge in UI by a wide margin. The advertised content is super annoying but it is possible to trim it.
also, after implementing my pi-hole, I’m not crazy about the fact plex keeps trying to send out analytics.
Yeah agree. They’re kind of sold as a cure all, which they’re not, but if you have a very specific problem they’ll help. I think the thing is a lot of times people use them without addressing the root cause. But it’s definitely saved me a deep clean before.