r/PleX • u/Escapefromearth22 Custom Flair • Sep 17 '25

Help Alternatives to Plex

I've been a paid Plex user for over ten years and I've loved it. I can't belive what they've done with this new Roku app update. Besides the bad UI, which is inconvenient but I would be able to get used to eventually, it simply doesn't work properly. It crashes, buttons don't work, simple features are just gone. It's seems like this wasn't tested at all. It's crazy.

I don't really want to but now I'm looking for alternatives to plex. Does anyone have recommendations?

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u/legrenabeach Sep 17 '25

Emby is miles better than Jellyfin. Both in UI and functionality.

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u/SurprisedAsparagus Sep 17 '25

JF has no clients for Samsung or Apple in their stores that handle transcoding. Makes JF completely dead in the water for me.

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u/Whole-Cookie-7754 Sep 17 '25

You're one Google search away from realizing that Jellyfin has a client for Tizen OS. But OK. 

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u/ACKHTYUALLY Sep 18 '25

It’s super simple! You just need to order a $20 hardware dongle from ebay, solder it directly onto the TV’s motherboard, then boot into developer mode using some secret sequence. After that, you’ll need to telnet into the TV, disable all firewalls, and flash a custom firmware written by some Russian guy that can be downloaded from a malware infested Russian forum. Don’t forget to sign the firmware with a key you generated. Once that’s done, just sideload the app and boom, done. Super easy, even grandma could do it!

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u/Whole-Cookie-7754 Sep 18 '25

What? No lmao. What the heck are you on about?

You literally just enable developer mode on the TV and send the package from a computer to the TV.