Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff

Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by alexalx666 on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @05:31PM (#36512889)

Do you use paid features of Plex and if yes, which ones? Im using Plex daily to stream shows stored on a SSD connected to Windows laptop. I think I would not miss on any paid features they provide. Initially when I decided to try to watch less mindless tv stuff, I thought there will be a plethora of solutions for home streaming but it turned out that the only one that actually works is Plex

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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by katbyte on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @05:37PM (#36512958)

emby and jellyfin work just great

and jellyfin is free & OSS

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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by cassianoleal on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @05:47PM (#36513093)

Jellyfin is nice. It doesn't work great though. I've had and have way too many issues with it.

I run it next to Plex to keep an eye on how it develops. I still have issues with pretty much all clients, from losing server connection information, to jankiness on changing users, or subtitles just not rendering properly, crazy high CPU usage for certain transcodes, etc.

Plex just works most of the time. Clients are better (even though the thing about them pushing crappy streaming and live tv stuff bothers me a little), subtitles mostly just work, rendering is ok and most video formats work well on most clients, and so on.

I want to like Jellyfin. I have high hopes that one day it will be great and I won't want Plex anymore. That day is not here yet.

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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by pojzon on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @05:55PM (#36513177)

> crazy high CPU usage for certain transcodes

The reason I stopped using it for hosting my collection on a PI.

Overall decided its just easier to have a public NAS accessible from anywhere.

No point to open stuff in a browser when you can simply open a video from another side of the world like a regular local video on my laptop.

So much better an easier.

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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by nickstinemates on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @07:01PM (#36513876)

I do both - have it on my NAS exposed as SMB shares but also Jellyfin both on the internet without vpn/tailscale and of course with.

Sometimes I want to use a local media player, sometimes, when I am unsure what to watch I browse the media gallery and just watch from the browser.

I don't trust Plex. I don't like its media server, all of the dark patterns, the subscription, unknown telemetry (although firewalled.) I liked that it was available as an app on my TV but I solved that a different way.

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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by flutas on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @06:45PM (#36513707)

The only premium feature I'm using is hardware encoding personally.

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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by scktt on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @06:58PM (#36513847)

hardware en/decoding for sure. im not sure if it is still the case, but prior to pruchasing the liftime account playing back media remotely from a phone/tablet was limited to 10 minutes. i have 3 kids, and we regularly take long drives. 10 mins would not cut it. i also share my content with family, which again i think is harder without a subscription.

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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by Krisjohn on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @08:05PM (#36514542)

Plexamp and Wireguard have revolutionized music in my car.

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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by slimebot80 on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @11:16PM (#36515913)

Downloading onto devices is my only real feature

Sure there are other ways to do it, but Plex just makes it easy, so I paid

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Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff by kyriakos on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @11:46PM (#36516077)

Skip intro feature is only available on paid version and works really well.

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