Plex vs Emby on Amazon Fire TV - Which is Better?

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The NAScompares Podcast - Let's Talk Data

[leopold]

Thank you for this. I've been running Jellyfin for a while, but I've not been over enamoured by it, it just misses a few things which need more effort to plug than I'd like. I was running Emby before that, but while the UI on the Fire TV didn't bother me, it was a bit of a barrier for my family, who thought it was a bit too fiddly. And yes, I know I could customise it, but again it's effort I'd rather not make. But I've been reluctant to take the plunge with Plex and I wanted some straight talk, rather than the usual bias most users have. It seems that the few shortcomings of Plex are pretty much trumped by WAF, and what you showed here pretty much says Plex would be a win for the family. So it looks like my decision is made...

[stevenwagner]

I've tried them all and emby is by far my favorite. Have it installed on a synology ds718+ and on a qnap 473a and it runs good on both but better on the more powerful qnap. However, I like the synology layout better and may buy a more powerful synology in the future.

[CozumelTy]

To me the difference between Plex and Emby (And Jellyfin) is very similar to iOS and Android (With Emby and Jellyfin being Android and Plex being iOS) iOS is polished and not very customizable and not having all the features but the features they do have working very well while Emby and Jelly being more feature rich and customizable but not quite as easy and polished.

[JimboLodisC]

would be cool to see Plex media server and transcoding performance of the NVIDIA Shield TV (the stick or the Pro model), I've been wondering if the Ryzen in the newer Synology wouldn't be a problem for me as a Plex user if my Shield could just do all the work for Plex

[TheSae]

You are discussing only video films - 1/4 of the capabilities of Plex, but it works with videos, music, photographs and (!) audiobooks! I find it convenient to use PLEX to store my audiobook collection.

[paulgorski]

HQAudio was a big fail for me with Plex. Multiple calls to support who mostly blew me off as they did not seem to care about HQAudio, (I'm a sound/recording engineer). I switched to Emby and could not be happier. A big thanks for the review. Emby deserves more attention.

[crckdns]

Thanks for this comparison! But WHERE is the promised link to the shown comparison? There is only wrong one.
I just hope, someone manages soon to bypass Plex's recognition of Hetzner hosting so I don't have to move whole setup to emby and teach family how to use new interface :/

[Mikegritz]

How should one set up the directories so I can load my videos in one folder, audio books, in theirs so they can be accessed by Plesk, Emby, or other application? I think I'd like to use both Plesk and Emby for different reasons. And which is best for sharing content?

[The-Wise-One]

Would be awesome is Synology offered a optional graphics card upgrade to their models.. is there any less 4k transcoding power needed with Emby or Jellyfin vs Plex? Or is that identical across the 3x software options?

[SK-quwo]

The thing that drives me crazy about Emby is that it creates generic chapter markers for video files that don't have chapters in the metadata. I purposedly remove chapter metadata from my tv show video files because I think it makes for a more sleek viewing experince. Not to mention the massive amount of time and resources that Emby uses up just to scan the folders and create chapter thumbnails. If anybody knows of a way to prevent Emby from creating chapter markers, it would be greatly appreciated.

[KelticLad]

great video and explanation on both platforms will need to try emby see how I can get use out of it but think I'm a plex man

[pablomax]

Thanks for the video. As a "lifetime" premium member to plex, I simply can no longer stand then hiding my local server under several menu layers, while forcing their streaming content on me. I have ZERO interest in Plex anymore because of this crap ware they are pushing.

[jcgof]

The "playback info"
you can see it at 14:15 of the video has your nerd info on plex.

[The-Wise-One]

Is there any benefit using plex and jellyfin together.. im still making sense of it. If There's less transcoding power needed for jellyfin then could do 4k on jelly and rest in plex..

[darrenwhite]

I prefer Emby, I love the option for my movies posters to have dvd case look.. there are other reason too.. however, I find Plex far easier to share my content with family

[ManCaveTV]

I love Emby but I hate all their apps except for my android phone. The roku app and apple TV app are trash compared to Plex. I hate how hard it is to navigate the Emby app in comparison on all the devices I own. I like that Plex one click to the left and all my movies and shows are right there.

[bettdiaz]

I left plex, then emby... and I am so happy with Jellyfin

[nlrz]

Imagine that you are trying to be a Plex concurrent, and to connect to your server, you need to learn what is https, reverse proxy, docker, how to get a DNS and probably other things depending on the configuration, and for all that, there is not a single clear tutorial, and even the community on discord does not help you... while at plex, you connect to your account and that's it.

[praetorxyn]

I've been running the LSIO container for Plex for ages, for Jellyfin for about a year, and emby for a few months.

I mostly use Jellyfin, but I like being able to compare. I'll probably pick up Emby Premier on Black Friday. $20 off isn't much, but I don't exactly need it either.

[Ichijoe]

Its been said many times many ways.
C: Jellyfin...