Honest question, because I know multiple people who are not looking to jump ship since they already have the Plex Pass.

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    16 hours ago

    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.

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        1. Copy the compose.yaml from https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-jellyfin/#user-group-identifiers and adjust, e.g.:
        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-stopped
        
        1. Run docker compose up -d

        2. Navigate to http://<IP>:8096

        3. Follow the wizard to create a user and libraries.

        4. Profit


        Steps for Plex:

        1. Copy the compose.yaml from https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-plex/?h=plex#umask-for-running-applications and adjust, e.g:
        ---
        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-stopped
        
        1. Run docker compose up -d

        2. Navigate to http://<IP>:32400

        3. 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.

        4. You can now watch Plex media. Clicking your media will only have a link to https://www.plex.tv/media-server-downloads/

        5. Look everywhere to figure out where to add your local media and give up.

        6. Look in Google and no one has this issue.

        7. 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.

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      15 hours ago

      The fact that Plex does not even have settings for hardware encoding, besides on/off, tells me that’s bullshit