VLC as always saves the day. Most recently for me when you want to watch HDR UHD ripped to 1080p. With plex, this becomes a problem you need to buy a plex pass for and more significantly, must have a '16 Intel CPU or newer to be able to remap it while VLC does so in the fly.

Details: In plex, the colors are so washed out it looks like a black and white movie. In VLC, the colors hit you like

Addition: I tried two remedies while packing with handbrake. BT.709 colorspace and a custom one from reddit. Both lead to the movie being so dark that you cant see most of the details.

Conclusion: VLC being open source, we should be able to see what they are doing and copy this behavior. if plex wont do it without payment, this could be huge for jellyfin for example.

Anyone with actual knowledge who can shed light on this?

    • vithigar@lemmy.caEnglish
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      16 days ago

      When I initially set up my media server I went with Jellyfin over Plex mostly because the idea of having to create an account on an external service to use software I was hosting myself rubbed me the wrong way. Since then the more learn about Plex the more baffled I am that anyone chooses to use it at all.

      • RandomLegend [He/Him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        16 days ago

        I have to say, Plex is a much more polished and more reliable piece of software in my experience.

        I’ve used Plex for a couple of years and even got myself a lifetime premium pass when it was 65% reduced or something. But when news started popping up about them potentially leaking what content you watch i burned that bridge (look at the instance i come from, you can guess where my content stems from :D)

        I then migrated over to jellyfin. It’s not as polished, it doesn’t run that reliable for me as plex did, hw accell, hdr convertion didn’t setup as easy but after a lot of tinkering it now works very fine for me.

        I really enjoy jellyfin and the ecosystem that evolved around it.

        • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          16 days ago

          You may just be talking about whichever player you’re using. Maybe try a different one.

          The server is bulletproof. Plex doesn’t come close.

          • RandomLegend [He/Him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            16 days ago

            No i am not talking about the player as hw accell and hdr conversion runs on the server itself

            The server is not bulletproof and in my experience plex ran better for me than jellyfin.

      • Geologist@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        16 days ago

        Jellyfin is awesome (I use it with my shield TV), but the reason I found plex worth paying for is their audio companion plexamp, and its integration with carplay.

        I tested a ton of different apps and services, and other then plex the only good carplay experience was from online only services like spotify or similar that come with hefty subscription fees. Internet auth does suck tho.