this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2025
554 points (98.1% liked)

Selfhosted

42801 readers
1342 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

  1. Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.

  2. No spam posting.

  3. Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.

  4. Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).

  6. No trolling.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I've feel like I've used Plex forever. I also feel like every couple years I try Jellyfin to see how it's going. Recently I tried it again because of Plex restriction on more than one user.

Well, I just tried it again and it's substantially improved! This time it actually properly detected most of my library!

Also the Android TV app is AWESOME! No more glitches, lagging, and freezing trying to play my stuff like Plex did. It is butter smooth.

Wow! I'm impressed and I just deleted Plex. Good riddance.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] keyez@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like it's mostly with embedded subs inside the media files already. Thats where all my subs are so I'm going to test soon but haven't played anything on jellyfin needing subs in a while

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I now extract all my subs, but for the first 2 years using it I left everything embedded and it always worked normally. Even with some advanced ones like Jujutsu Kaisen and One Pace, which both use stylized ones.

[–] keyez@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Just tested and with Findroid on my phone, no subtitle options appeared at all, though it had 4 languages embedded. On my roku they showed up but as soon as I picked it it loaded until it said Error During Playback

[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I've never used Findroid, but they work on my regular Jellyfin app. I think on Roku transcoding is required, but afaik that's on Roku not supporting the subtitle format.

[–] keyez@lemmy.world 1 points 10 minutes ago

The same movie works on the roku Plex app with the embedded subtitles just fine.

Also findroid is an android app that has more features than the native app