Emby vs Jellyfin - Which Should You Use on Your NAS

Video Chapters
00:00 - The Start
00:45 - Emby vs Jellyfin - Important detail about their relationship
01:41 - Emby vs Jellyfin - Price, Cost and Subscription Models?
03:51 - Emby vs Jellyfin - Server Config GUI
06:25 - Emby vs Jellyfin - Clients
07:45 - Emby vs Jellyfin - Player
10:52 - How Emby Prices itself
12:23 - Emby vs Jellyfin - Transcoding, Re-encoding and Conversions
15:34 - Emby vs Jellyfin - Server and CLient Side Apps
19:55 - Emby vs Jellyfin - Features
20:24 - Emby vs Jellyfin - Add ons
22:45 - Emby vs Jellyfin - Verdict and Conclusion
24:50 - Who Should Choose Emby for their NAS?
25:33 - Who Should Use Jellyfin on their NAS?
26:34 - A Note to remember for the future?

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[vidx]

Good in-depth analysis of the differences between the two

[chillp]

Great video. I have a Qnap Nas, and I have used all 3 of these applications. For me Emby is my favorite. I am a person who loves customization. I want to visually change as much as I can, and craft it the way I want it. I loved Plex, but Emby exceeded my expectations of available customizations. For that reason I don't mind paying the price for premiere. Just like a lot of services, and applications, it comes down to what your wants or needs are. All 3 of these are good, but for me Emby is my number one.

[djlucasd]

Yeah I tried Jellyfin for a few days, then moved to Emby. Night and day difference, even with having to pay. It's worth it.

[vaithyvaithiyanathan]

This video is the best comparison for these two apps. Thanks a lot!!

[victor]

I'm still a Plex user (with liftetime I got on sale a lonnng time ago) but slowly starting to explore Jellyfin. Setting one up to slowly test it out. Plex has been slow to roll out some things and seem to be focused on the wrong features for me. Example plex still doesn't work with latest over the air codec but seems Jellyfin might be able to work with some tweaking. Without any research video is already working, just not audio.

[ask_carbon]

Just as a curiosity does Emby pay money/support upstream ffmpeg ?

[alaskajim]

I have a Synology DS-923+ just getting it running. Can you use a Zimaboard for hardware transcoding on Jellyfin and Emmy? I saw a video using Zimaboard with Plex. Love your videos.

[jmssun]

I use infuse from FireCore as media player. Just stream backed up videos from nas.

[sandrorocha]

I've used Emby for about three years, and while the server is competent, the clients have their problems. The version for Android TV, in addition to being paid, had a horribly optimized interface. I never considered paying for premiere because my NAS didn't have the capabilities to take advantage of the extra features of the subscription. When I changed my NAS and it had such capabilities, I realized that it wasn't worth paying for the only feature I wanted to use, transcoding. So I opted for Jellyfin. So far I'm finding him superior to Emby. Transcoding works fine and clients are better optimized. My only gripe is with the subtitles. Advanced options are only available when I choose another player (default is ExoPlayer) and subtitle options don't always work well. Strangely, the Android mobile client works perfectly.

[nlrz]

I tryed jellyfin, and i can't access to it outside my home and the help is non-existent. Did emby is the same when trying to configure remote access to my content? Did i have to configure third-party software or reverse proxy, dyndns or anything else?

[JC-khls]

Which is the most useful for a family who is on the apple ecosystem. Don’t wanna pay apple for iCloud storage

[simonsonjh]

I hope you will be discussing Kodi. I only use Kodi.

[JayzBeerz]

When are you going to talk Gen 5 NVME drives? Some read and write up to 13 GBps.

[LastGamer]

I’ve used jellyfin, Plex and others. Plex is by far my pick.

[davidsomething]

Yep would not touch Plex with a barge pole, jus too intrusive, nosy and if I understand right needs Internet access to function. Happily paid what worked out to be £99 GBP for lifetime. It is a bit annoying that have to pay for premiere to watch on iOS and Android but I would not say the cost of premium is that bad if paying for lifetime. Jellyfin needs docker on Synology which kind of puts me off a bit.

[marcelspence]

What percentage of nas media streamers transcode? Personality I hate it.

[houghi]

I have Emby and do not pay anything. Any of the paid options are not something I need. When I watch a movie on my phone, I watch it at 480p instead of e.g. 4K to save data. No problem ever. I also do not need to pay the app on my Android. So not sure what that 5USD is about. The best is to see if you actually need the paid things. Because it might well be that you do not need to. I know I do not need it.

The only thing that is a bit of a downer is that I can not download subtitles when I am watching the video, but I can when I go to the file before I start it.

[Quettesh]

You have to pay for Emby to be usable, but it is worth every penny - it is years ahead of Jellyfin and less nosy than Plex.

[Aury-H]

Direct play and format support in Emby is superior to Jellyfin and Plex

[chenxubin]

Emby just works, Jellyfin always has some problems to fix which ends up wasting a lot of time in my life.