• WxFisch@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    So still not addressing the myriad problems the player has, especially on AppleTV where it’s been reported for nearly half a decade to not work well. But hey you get yet another place to do photos things (which they admit literally no one wants or uses, they’d be better off dropping support for photos altogether).

    This is super frustrating because plex is very polished despite its clear bugs and misdirection. I just switched over to JellyFin and it’s faster and much more focused but just still has a lot of rough edges. I’m not sure which will be my long term solution but plex needs to attract folks to subscribe and focusing on features that 1/5 of a percent of users utilize is not how you do that.

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      5 days ago

      As a longtime Plex user, I also hate their lack of focus and tendancy to priorotize bad features (like paid streaming and VR). But this one feels more like a way to re-focus on video by removing photo code from the main (video) app’s codebase, making it easier to maintain.

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      5 days ago

      Can Jellyfin and Plex point to the same libraries and coexist?

      I haven’t tried it before but maybe I should. I don’t have huge complaints with the Plex AppleTV app. I just find it laggy at times.

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        5 days ago

        They can, I turned off my plex VM to save resources but no real reason they can’t both point to the same libraries at once.

      • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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        5 days ago

        I don’t use it much but haven’t had too many issues with plex on apple TV. I do have infuse too and a lot of people with plex servers prefer infuse on apple products.