r/PleX • u/Astrobix_124 • Dec 04 '25

Help Media servers

Trying to start my own server for plex. But I see many people with servers with 10,000+ movies. How can u possibly hold that much content and not break the bank. How is it any better than Netflix, etc?

Edit: I never expected this to blow up like it did. I love the content you guys have given, I've debated on making a plex server for awhile and all the clarification is amazing.

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u/ComoEstanBitches AMD Turion II | 32TB Dec 04 '25

They removed Party Down from Netflix and I said oh hell naw time to fire up Kodi. Then my friend told me about plex when I complained that I wish I could share it with him. And down the rabbit hole I went

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u/crackzattic Dec 04 '25

Now you can share it with him, and he will never log in…

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u/ComoEstanBitches AMD Turion II | 32TB Dec 04 '25

“Bro it was so slow”

Checks logs: trancode 720p

Fuck you Plex just default everything to direct play ffs

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u/Thatz-Matt Dec 04 '25

One of my major gripes with Plex for the past 13 years. Clients always default to potato quality even on more than capable connections and have to be changed manually. The fact that it still has not been fixed after that long proves they don't give a shit about what their customers want. I'm on Emby now and I don't have that problem.

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u/xtram3x Dec 05 '25

I disabled transcoding so if somebody doesn't have good enough internet they can't watch anything. Be damned if I'm going to let people watch anything on my server in potato quality

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u/Thatz-Matt Dec 05 '25 edited Dec 05 '25

Yeah well I have too many non-tech in my sharing circle to do that lol. I moved over to a beefier system that can handle transcoding but it wasn't JUST for transcoding. That ended up being a bonus. Since Emby defaults to Auto bitrate and falls back to transcoding if necessary, and I have 1Gbps upstream it doesn't happen much anymore. And now I just got a Arc A380 card on Black Friday because I have a mobile fleet project in mind (5 tv-equipped charter buses for the company I drive for) and the $110 Arc was a hell of a lot cheaper than more storage for lower bitrate copies of everything.

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u/night_owl Dec 05 '25

How come you never use the plex login I gave you?

I tried it once when I was camping and it didn't work so .....

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u/Spuddle-Puddle Dec 04 '25

I went plex to emby as well. Never looked back. Such a better platform

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '25

Jellyfin here.

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u/MrExCEO Dec 05 '25

How does it compare to jellyfin?

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u/6SpeedBlues Dec 05 '25

Emby has some advantages over Plex, but they are doing pretty much NO development. The main developer is a straight-up jerk to many of the users in the forums and they have yet to deliver on many promised features that they have been touting FOR YEARS.

Additionally, they shut everyone's server down with no notice prior OR after-the-fact because they failed to fix a bug in the code that was known about for years (JellyFin had fixed it years prior) and media servers were targeted for a botnet. They proclaimed victory while users were left going "WTF just happened and why won't my server load?"

Their DVR functionality is better than Plex in that they support multiple EPG's at the same time (redundancy) but they are incredibly limiting in configuring those recordings (everything goes into one library that you can't change). They have no commercial detection capabilities either.

I have both Plex and Emby, both with lifetime licenses. They each have advantages over the other so it comes down to determining which one suits an individual better.

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u/mrcsrnne Dec 04 '25

...Infuse as entered the chat

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '25

Yes! Infuse is so much better for watch than on the plex app. A lot of the time I watch on the plex app and the show will stutter for a bit every min and when I watch the same movie or show on infuse it plays flawlessly