Their contribute page emphasizes the fact that Jellyfin is powered by community. On a basic level, as a very strong proponent of (free and) open source software, the community behind Jellyfin is more palatable to me. Many people never heard of it, and those who have often don't know why someone would choose Jellyfin over Plex, considering Plex's legacy. Today, I posted a new video, showing how I set up Jellyfin on my NAS, and explaining a bit more about transcoding, legal issues around breaking DRM, and acquiring DVDs and Blu-Rays on the cheap.īut I wanted to explain a little more about why I chose Jellyfin. Like cable networks and satellite companies before, they're raising rates (at a rate higher than inflation), stuffing their content libraries with filler that's not even worth the bandwidth to stream it, and shoving ads in paying users' faces.Īnd in my first video of this two-part series, I showed how I rip Blu-Rays and DVDs into my computer. The blog post Streaming services lost the plot detailed how streaming services have become the thing they were made to destroy.

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