The battle of the self-hosted streaming platforms.

I'm finally ready to give up Plex for Jellyfin.

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Self-hosting is an increasingly popular alternative for those looking to escape the convoluted (and expensive) content-streaming landscape and return to a more traditional personal ownership approach ...

John is a writer at Pocket-lint. He is passionate about all things technology, and is always keeping up with the latest smartphone and PC releases. John has previously written at MobileSyrup. When ...

Jellyfin is a content management system that can stream videos, images, music, books, etc. With Jellyfin, you can stream content stored on your home PC from your smartphone anytime while on the go, so ...

Streaming your own media shouldn’t come with a subscription. Here’s why Plex users are frustrated — and why Jellyfin might be a better bet.

In this article, we will assume that the setup of Jellyfin has been completed according to the procedure in the following article. Note that if you only want to download videos to a local folder, you ...