I have set up both. Honestly Jellyfin was MUCH more easy to setup because Plex requires a very specific way to setup the network otherwise it craps its pants and refuses to work on LAN.
But after figuring out those pain points, both are set and forget. The main differences are privacy concerns vs wide access outside of LAN and on more devices.
Create an account with Plex, give them your email and create a password with the specific requirements they impose. Agree with their use policy and confirm the pop-ups about ads and such.
Look everywhere to figure out where to add your local media and give up.
Look in Google and no one has this issue.
Spend a few hours trying and give up.
BTW, the issue there that took me months to figure out is that while Plex documentation says that you only need to expose that port, it only works in network host mode, so unless you give it full control of your network it just refuses to work.
I see plenty of comments suggesting it’s not the set it and forget it that Plex is.
I have set up both. Honestly Jellyfin was MUCH more easy to setup because Plex requires a very specific way to setup the network otherwise it craps its pants and refuses to work on LAN.
But after figuring out those pain points, both are set and forget. The main differences are privacy concerns vs wide access outside of LAN and on more devices.
Great; post your guide/instructions showing how easy it was.
services: jellyfin: image: lscr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin:latest container_name: jellyfin environment: - PUID=1000 - PGID=1000 - TZ=Europe/Madrid volumes: - ./config:/config - ./media:/media ports: - 8096:8096 - 8920:8920 - 7359:7359/udp restart: unless-stoppedRun
docker compose up -dNavigate to
http://<IP>:8096Follow the wizard to create a user and libraries.
Profit
Steps for Plex:
--- services: plex: image: lscr.io/linuxserver/plex:latest container_name: plex environment: - PUID=1000 - PGID=1000 - TZ=Etc/UTC - VERSION=docker volumes: - ./config:/config - ./media:/media ports: - 32400:32400 restart: unless-stoppedRun
docker compose up -dNavigate to
http://<IP>:32400Create an account with Plex, give them your email and create a password with the specific requirements they impose. Agree with their use policy and confirm the pop-ups about ads and such.
You can now watch Plex media. Clicking your media will only have a link to https://www.plex.tv/media-server-downloads/
Look everywhere to figure out where to add your local media and give up.
Look in Google and no one has this issue.
Spend a few hours trying and give up.
BTW, the issue there that took me months to figure out is that while Plex documentation says that you only need to expose that port, it only works in network host mode, so unless you give it full control of your network it just refuses to work.
The fact that Plex does not even have settings for hardware encoding, besides on/off, tells me that’s bullshit