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I used Plex for my home media for almost a year, then it stopped playing nice for reasons I gave up on diagnosing. While looking at alternatives, I found Jellyfin which is much more responsive, IMO, and the UI is much nicer as well.

It gets relegated to playing Fraggle Rock and Bluey on repeat for my kiddo these days, but I am absolutely in love with the software.

What are some other FOSS gems that are a better experience UX/UI-wise than their proprietary counterparts?

EDIT: Autocorrect turned something into "smaller" instead of what I meant it to be when I wrote this post, and I can't remember what I meant for it to say so it got axed instead.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love MPV for the angled braces keys for one frame ahead and behind. This is the main reason I use MPV, since it also couples playback performance with this, so I can check and compare the quality of encoded vs original videos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do get annoyed, setting the hotkeys & seek distances, to something actually useful, every time I install VLC

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Best way is to use both MPV and VLC, as per requirements. And its not like either are resource hogging or storage hogging, and both are supreme programs.