I tried switching to Jellyfin. But the feature parity between Plex and Jellyfin just isn’t there. This was roughly 6-9 months ago.
I have a 5.1 surround sound setup with Dolby atmos and 4k HDR 10 with Nvidia Shield Pro android TVs as clients. I have Blu-ray rips that play completely fine on Plex, but stutter, have no sound, or downscale to 2.0 sound on JellyFin.
There are some fixes that involve using a JellyFin server and a Kodi media client on Google TV’s. This does enable DTS and Ddd+ sound. While that technically works, it is very involved and feels like many more steps than just using Plex.
If you use a basic 1080p tv with two speakers and lazy encodes of media, Jellyfin probably works great for you. If you have anything a little more complex then you will inevitably see some problems.
This is similar to other open source projects like Ashai. The basic features are easy enough to build, but the more complicated use cases always require more time and effort, and people aren’t always willing to do that complicated extra effort for free.
I’m lucky, I have a tube 2019 running jellyfin into a 5.1.2 setup through my avr and DTS/atmos + HDR10/DV work with jellyfin. I switched from kodi a few years. Do you have Dolby processing and up mix 2.0 turned off in the shield settings? Those cause stutters and some issues for me.
The client story is lacking for sure. But they seem to be prioritizing that now. Regardless, what they’ve achieved as an OSS Emby fork is astonishing imo.
On Apple TV, Infuse bridges the client gap. I personally prefer paying for a third-party client (for now) to paying for a media server that locks transcoding behind a paywall and ties my private server to a remote service. YMMV of course.
I have a 5.1 surround sound setup with Dolby atmos and 4k HDR 10 with Nvidia Shield Pro android TVs as clients. I have Blu-ray rips that play completely fine on Plex, but stutter, have no sound, or downscale to 2.0 sound on JellyFin.
There are some fixes that involve using a JellyFin server and a Kodi media client on Google TV’s. This does enable DTS and Ddd+ sound. While that technically works, it is very involved and feels like many more steps than just using Plex.
If you use a basic 1080p tv with two speakers and lazy encodes of media, Jellyfin probably works great for you. If you have anything a little more complex then you will inevitably see some problems.
This is similar to other open source projects like Ashai. The basic features are easy enough to build, but the more complicated use cases always require more time and effort, and people aren’t always willing to do that complicated extra effort for free.