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kstenerud • today at 2:36 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

What's wrong with the name?

Differences from Plex:

- Watching your own films away from home isn't paywalled, and never will be.

- Hardware encoding is free, and always will be.

- No cloud account required unless you want my convenient discovery service.

- If you don't want to use a cloud account at all, you can set up your own discovery server on your own VPS for watching away from home even through routers and shit (also free).

- No ads, no storefront, no telemetry.

- Watch Together with voice. Multiple people can watch a synced video, and talk to each other (I've tested this with me in Germany and the other person in Australia, and it worked beautifully).

- Hardened against corrupt video files and issues like NFS failures (getting stuck forever in a syscall). Everything vulnerable is separated and isolated.

- Open source. The server is AGPL and the web clients are MPL.

- Your files are left alone. Media is read-only by default. The server reads the .nfo metadata files you already have, from Kodi for example.

What's not there yet:

- Native apps. I'm only doing a web client for the time being until all the features are in place. It's pretty fast, though.

- Music. This comes later.


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knowaveragejoe • today at 3:52 PM

How is this different from Jellyfin?

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