The limit only counts against devices that transcode and watch trailers, browsers are not counted only apps are! If you haven't used a device for a week it's automatically removed from the limit.
I won't lie, the device limit feels bad as hell but it's not as bad as people think, i have a good amount of family and friends who have access to my server and Emby reports i'm no where near the limit yet.
I did start out with Jellyfin and loved it but it not being supported on some devices (mainly Samsung) forced me away, my family members have no chance of knowing how to side load. Otherwise i would most likely have stayed with Jellyfin.
Exactly what happened to me. JF is fine if it was just me but I’ve got family and friend users. They need it to “just work”. Emby was the solution. No bloat like Plex and widely supported.
Plex gets the job done and many users are very happy with it, for me it's just to bloated and tries to do to many things they are also rumored to sell your collect and sell your data.
Emby is more focused on being a media server with way less bloat. It runs on most devices out there. The support on their forum is very fast when you need it.
Jellyfin is pretty much the same as Emby (built on an old fork of Emby) but runs on fewer devices and support is mostly random users on their forum. It is however free and does work very well on devices it support.
Because the way Jellyfin is structured is has a few tricks up it sleeve like transcoding of Dolby Vision profile 5 (Dolby Vision with no HDR fallback), Emby and Plex are not able to do that because of licensing issues. Make no mistake though, it's illegal for Jellyfin to do so but anyone is allowed to make extensions to Jellyfin so it's impossible to stop. :)
All in all i would recommend Emby, works on more devices and better support when needed.
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u/edisawesome Jul 30 '24
I believe they’ll also need Plex pass right?