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Plex; Introducing Plex Photos Beta (www.plex.tv)

submitted 2 months ago by Sunny@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

worse transcoding performance

You have to pay on Plex to use hardware acceleration for transcoding. Lmao

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't make the point any less valid. I would pay for better transcoding performance in jf if it were an option.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have hard time believing Plex's software transcoding is more performant than Jellyfin's hardware accelerated trandcoding

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My problems are less about speed and more about compatibility. I have Plex and jelly thing set up next to each other as containers on the same media database. There's quite a number of videos that play on Plex that will not play on jellyfin. It could be problems between the two clients.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've understood that "performance" in this sort of context mean how quickly a given task is done

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They're mostly just using FFmpeg behind the scenes, which is exactly how Plex did it to start with. Plex spent a long time working on hardware acceleration, it's hard to tell exactly what they're doing at this point but it's safe to say they spend a hell of a lot of time on it so I doubt they're just using FFmpeg for hardware acceleration anymore.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hilarious if they are, they'd just be getting people to pay to use their own hardware

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I mean it's not entirely impossible, FFmpeg has also pushed to improve themselves over the years.

[–] capital@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I paid for lifetime in 2012. Worth it.

[–] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

I'm not using HA so that's irrelevant to me. It's just cpu encoding on my threadripper server.