Emby vs Jellyfin - Which is better 2023?

hey guys what is going on my name is Tom spark welcome back to another video today we're going to be talking about which is better uh jellyfin or Envy here's MB and here is jellyfin I have extensive experience testing out both of these for my media server that runs with the classic R things stuff like sonar radar and Prowler which one of these is better to use for that kind of setup for streaming your at-home media server we're going to be discussing that in this video now guys if you're looking for a proxy or a VPN to encrypt and hide your traffic while torrenting you've come to the right place I'm the only YouTube channel that I know that has an extensive rating table and spreadsheet where I've rated pretty much every single VPN provider and the services they provide here is my materialist you can check it out at vpnteerless.com I would specifically recommend torguard as an excellent choice for torrenting and anonymizing your kind of traffic because they do offer a Sox 5 proxy with 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schedule certain recordings have offline media take advantage of your GPU have kind of Cinema intros MB theater you can even run this on your game devices it seems various backup features smart home and some of those things with cool cover art so they do kind of have a recurring subscription model and that's something you can take advantage of if you want that said they also have a one-time fee of five dollars um you could either choose that to gain access to kind of the basic model or choose MB Premiere now for most people I do believe the basic model is more than sufficient um and I found that it works perfectly fine for a one-time fee of five dollars now on the other hand we have jellyfin a popular open source so keep in mind both of these are open source jelly fin is actually an offshoot of MB kind of taking the same kind of stuff but providing it more as a free completely free service now at first glance this seems to be really good and that's what I thought and I used jelly fan for around two years I don't know if you guys noticed but you can zoom in here and you can see a little bit gray in my hair that's actually from jellyfin now jellyfin it does have a pretty good reputation but that said using it day to day I've come up with a lot of issues which as spoiler has made me migrate to MB and I wish I would have done it sooner one of the issues I have with jellyfin is just a constant kind of lack there's been a sort of issue despite the Wi-Fi connection I have where if I'm watching something it will kind of pause it will resume the audio but the video does not resume this is a very annoying issue and I can't figure out what caused it I've seen other people with the same issue and it could just be a small little bug within jellyfin they haven't fixed yet keep in mind this project doesn't really run on any money and that is one of the downsides to kind of this open source software but the thing is is MB is also open source but jellyfin is free so they're not really making any money and I do believe when using the product that does kind of show another interesting thing that I prefer mb4 is that there's better app support whether you're on iOS on Android TV or even Apple TV there's a fully fledged MB application that you could take advantage of and use let me go ahead and find that now for some reason the application doesn't have the best ratings uh it's only 41 ratings though and they probably don't pay for any ratings like most companies do um but I found the application very good I really like having an application for iOS on Apple TV and the Nvidia Shield that you could just download and get working jellyfind doesn't have a native app for iOS or the Apple TV technically what you'll have to use is an application called Infuse now this application actually has a much better rating than MB but I've found that it is not as good the thing about Infuse is that it also has a subscription price it's around one dollars a month or twelve dollars a year whereas MB is a five dollar upfront charge so Infuse is actually more expensive than MB long term although you can get it working with jellyfin that said I've found that there is definitely a lot more issues here uh one thing is is that navigating to add the server can definitely be a little bit confusing and there's also other issues I just haven't really ran into with MB one of the things I like about MB is that from the beginning of using it it just simply works pretty much what happens is you set your server up alright so now we are on my other server here and I'm going to be recording the footage there to show you guys so let's go ahead and membrane of MB we're going to go down here browse the iso now the thing I like about MB is for one it has a very good interface like I said but primarily the setup process is just so good so if you go to the settings you can see right here it's immediately giving me my in-home Lan access it's showing me the IP and the port to configure even though I didn't even need that it just automatically picked it up and I entered in the username and password that I created when setting up MB now probably my favorite thing about MB so far is that I really haven't really had to mess with it so much I don't know what it was with jellyfin but it just seemed like I was constantly tinkering and trying to figure out some problem or another navigating into the complicated settings menu just to try to get it working and I've never really had that with MB alright guys so that is my take on MB versus jellyfin I do prefer Envy I think it's better has better app support there seems to be less issues with the bugs regarding freezing and stuff like that the setup process is easier it's easier to CE or IP and connect and stuff like that when you download the the clients on various things like Apple TV or Google play right away it just detects your server and lets you log in very simple and it just works really well alright guys thanks for 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Length: 7min 42sec (462 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 21 2023