{"slug": "infuse", "name": "Infuse", "category": "media", "category_name": "Media and creative", "description": "Video player app for Apple devices that streams from NAS shares, Plex and Jellyfin.", "recommenders": 11, "commenters": 14, "warners": 0, "score": 11.231, "rising": 1.71, "first": "2026-05-19", "latest": "2026-10-23", "why": "Loved as an Apple TV player for Jellyfin, Plex and NAS libraries that direct-plays nearly any file without buffering or transcoding.", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": true, "sentiment": {"recommend": 11, "neutral": 3, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 4, 0, 3, 1], "listed": true, "loved": ["Apple TV experience", "Many media sources"], "caveat": "Limited search", "short_quote": "It's a such an amazing app and it plays everything I throw at it without any buffering or transcoding issues.", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://firecore.com/infuse", "pricing": "freemium", "aliases": ["Infuse"], "verdict": [{"text": "Loved as an Apple TV player for Jellyfin, Plex and NAS libraries", "cites": [{"id": 783831616, "item_id": 48989476, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48989476", "by": "Y-bar", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I really like Infuse, I use it with Jellyfin to stream to my Apple TV.", "excerpt": "I really like Infuse, I use it with Jellyfin to stream to my Apple TV. But there is one thing that I have repeatedly been irritated by, and it is that it cannot search by tags, nor can it search for words in the description of movies.", "context": "", "use_case": "streaming to Apple TV", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"}, {"id": 776718192, "item_id": 48544887, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544887", "by": "klausa", "date": "2026-06-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Infuse is a better Plex app than Plex is; and it supports Jellyfin and a bunch of other data sources.", "excerpt": "You should check out Infuse. Infuse is a better Plex app than Plex is; and it supports Jellyfin and a bunch of other data sources. It is, IMHO, a platonic ideal of what a \u201ctv-shaped\u201d video player app should be.", "context": "", "use_case": "video player for Plex and Jellyfin", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fox to Buy Roku Streaming Service in $22B Deal"}, {"id": 793773456, "item_id": 49610841, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610841", "by": "rdudek", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It's a such an amazing app and it plays everything I throw at it without any buffering or transcoding issues.", "excerpt": "Is Plex/jellyfin even necessary for Infuse? I've been using Infuse for years now and it has direct access to my NAS to look for media content and just directly plays it. It's a such an amazing app and it plays everything I throw at it without any buffering or transcoding issues. The Pro version pretty much has all the necessary codecs, including all the dolby things for hdr/atmos. It just works so well.", "context": "", "use_case": "playing media from NAS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jellyfin 12.0"}, {"id": 793706144, "item_id": 49606634, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49606634", "by": "vulkoingim", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use it on the AppleTV and across the rest of my devices! Works like a charm", "excerpt": "Yeaah, second that! I use it on the AppleTV and across the rest of my devices! Works like a charm, and coupled with Tailscale I can access everything on my Nas everywhere :) I have it configured to use Jellyfin as the source, runing on said nas", "context": "", "use_case": "media playback client", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jellyfin 12.0"}]}, {"text": " that direct-plays nearly any file without buffering or transcoding.", "cites": [{"id": 793773456, "item_id": 49610841, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610841", "by": "rdudek", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It's a such an amazing app and it plays everything I throw at it without any buffering or transcoding issues.", "excerpt": "Is Plex/jellyfin even necessary for Infuse? I've been using Infuse for years now and it has direct access to my NAS to look for media content and just directly plays it. It's a such an amazing app and it plays everything I throw at it without any buffering or transcoding issues. The Pro version pretty much has all the necessary codecs, including all the dolby things for hdr/atmos. It just works so well.", "context": "", "use_case": "playing media from NAS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jellyfin 12.0"}, {"id": 793739632, "item_id": 49608727, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49608727", "by": "illegalbyte2", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The Apple TV experience of Infuse is night and day with Plex.", "excerpt": "Yep. Worth every cent. The Apple TV experience of Infuse is night and day with Plex. I used to constantly struggle with Plex buffering and crashing on my local network with the Apple TV app. Infuse just points to a file share on my NAS and streams beautifully, even at larger 4K files. I used Plex for years. I\u2019d never go back from Infuse now, and I\u2019m happy to pay that subscription to support its excellent development.", "context": "", "use_case": "streaming from NAS on Apple TV", "switched_from": "Plex", "story": "Jellyfin 12.0"}, {"id": 771232224, "item_id": 48202014, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202014", "by": "xvolter", "date": "2026-05-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I moved to Infuse, a paid third-app, which I use to stream my Plex media content.", "excerpt": "The official Plex app hasn't been updated to take advantage of all the hardware decoding support available on the Apple TV. I moved to Infuse, a paid third-app, which I use to stream my Plex media content. Jellyfin official apps are sporadic though, so Infuse is popular for Jellyfin users because it is well maintained and allows you to direct stream content without transcoding as often as possible. -- I'm also the de", "context": "ex-Plex employee, developer of Aviato Media Server", "use_case": "streaming Plex on Apple TV", "switched_from": "Plex", "story": "Plex's 200% Lifetime Pass price hike tries forcing users to another subscription"}]}, {"text": " Complaints are few and varied, including no search by tags or descriptions", "cites": [{"id": 783831616, "item_id": 48989476, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48989476", "by": "Y-bar", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I really like Infuse, I use it with Jellyfin to stream to my Apple TV.", "excerpt": "I really like Infuse, I use it with Jellyfin to stream to my Apple TV. But there is one thing that I have repeatedly been irritated by, and it is that it cannot search by tags, nor can it search for words in the description of movies.", "context": "", "use_case": "streaming to Apple TV", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"}]}, {"text": ", slow lists on large collections", "cites": [{"id": 783801024, "item_id": 48987564, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987564", "by": "JamesSwift", "date": "2026-07-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I moved to infuse instead as my ios client and its been good overall.", "excerpt": "I tried to get involved (in very minor ways) a while back but got basically no engagement from the project so I just let it be. I moved to infuse instead as my ios client and its been good overall. I really hate its list performance on large collections though.", "context": "", "use_case": "iOS Jellyfin client", "switched_from": "Swiftfin", "story": "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"}]}, {"text": " and trouble playing DTS audio.", "cites": [{"id": 793681634, "item_id": 49605102, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605102", "by": "VladVladikoff", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "issues where infuse can\u2019t play DTS so I need to reencode", "excerpt": "I switched to jellyfin about 6 months ago and I can say it is definitely worse. I\u2019m constantly fighting to fix thumbnails, fix episodes to be in the same show, force rescans to get it to even recognize a show that already exists. I never had any of these problems with plex. Plex also defaults to transcoding which fixes a lot of gaps with clients that don\u2019t support certain codecs. I\u2019m often running into issues where i", "context": "", "use_case": "media playback", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jellyfin 12.0"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Apple TV experience", "summary": "Commenters single it out as the best way to watch their media on Apple TV.", "quotes": [{"id": 793739632, "item_id": 49608727, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49608727", "by": "illegalbyte2", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The Apple TV experience of Infuse is night and day with Plex.", "excerpt": "Yep. Worth every cent. The Apple TV experience of Infuse is night and day with Plex. I used to constantly struggle with Plex buffering and crashing on my local network with the Apple TV app. Infuse just points to a file share on my NAS and streams beautifully, even at larger 4K files. I used Plex for years. I\u2019d never go back from Infuse now, and I\u2019m happy to pay that subscription to support its excellent development.", "context": "", "use_case": "streaming from NAS on Apple TV", "switched_from": "Plex", "story": "Jellyfin 12.0"}, {"id": 783812448, "item_id": 48988278, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48988278", "by": "clepto", "date": "2026-07-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Infuse on the Apple TV and it\u2019s great.", "excerpt": "I use Infuse on the Apple TV and it\u2019s great. I\u2019m not sure how the free version of it compares, but they have a lifetime license for it that I believe is about $100. Definitely worth it if you have a large variety of media and frequently watch on the Apple TV specifically.", "context": "", "use_case": "media playback on Apple TV", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"}, {"id": 776718192, "item_id": 48544887, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544887", "by": "klausa", "date": "2026-06-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Infuse is a better Plex app than Plex is; and it supports Jellyfin and a bunch of other data sources.", "excerpt": "You should check out Infuse. Infuse is a better Plex app than Plex is; and it supports Jellyfin and a bunch of other data sources. It is, IMHO, a platonic ideal of what a \u201ctv-shaped\u201d video player app should be.", "context": "", "use_case": "video player for Plex and Jellyfin", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fox to Buy Roku Streaming Service in $22B Deal"}]}, {"label": "Many media sources", "summary": "Works with Jellyfin, Plex, SMB shares and other sources, so users can keep their existing server.", "quotes": [{"id": 783807696, "item_id": 48987981, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987981", "by": "tkcranny", "date": "2026-07-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Infuse is terrific software, and supports jellyfin and smb.", "excerpt": "Infuse is terrific software, and supports jellyfin and smb. I use it for jellyfin and absolutely love my setup. I ditched plex because of missing Dolby audio support and all the use hostile channels and \u201cfeatures\u201d years ago, and will never look back.", "context": "", "use_case": "media playback on Apple TV", "switched_from": "Plex", "story": "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"}, {"id": 776718192, "item_id": 48544887, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544887", "by": "klausa", "date": "2026-06-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Infuse is a better Plex app than Plex is; and it supports Jellyfin and a bunch of other data sources.", "excerpt": "You should check out Infuse. Infuse is a better Plex app than Plex is; and it supports Jellyfin and a bunch of other data sources. It is, IMHO, a platonic ideal of what a \u201ctv-shaped\u201d video player app should be.", "context": "", "use_case": "video player for Plex and Jellyfin", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fox to Buy Roku Streaming Service in $22B Deal"}, {"id": 771232224, "item_id": 48202014, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202014", "by": "xvolter", "date": "2026-05-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I moved to Infuse, a paid third-app, which I use to stream my Plex media content.", "excerpt": "The official Plex app hasn't been updated to take advantage of all the hardware decoding support available on the Apple TV. I moved to Infuse, a paid third-app, which I use to stream my Plex media content. Jellyfin official apps are sporadic though, so Infuse is popular for Jellyfin users because it is well maintained and allows you to direct stream content without transcoding as often as possible. -- I'm also the de", "context": "ex-Plex employee, developer of Aviato Media Server", "use_case": "streaming Plex on Apple TV", "switched_from": "Plex", "story": "Plex's 200% Lifetime Pass price hike tries forcing users to another subscription"}]}, {"label": "Direct playback", "summary": "Plays files directly with broad codec and Dolby support, avoiding buffering and transcoding.", "quotes": [{"id": 793773456, "item_id": 49610841, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610841", "by": "rdudek", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It's a such an amazing app and it plays everything I throw at it without any buffering or transcoding issues.", "excerpt": "Is Plex/jellyfin even necessary for Infuse? I've been using Infuse for years now and it has direct access to my NAS to look for media content and just directly plays it. It's a such an amazing app and it plays everything I throw at it without any buffering or transcoding issues. The Pro version pretty much has all the necessary codecs, including all the dolby things for hdr/atmos. It just works so well.", "context": "", "use_case": "playing media from NAS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jellyfin 12.0"}, {"id": 771232224, "item_id": 48202014, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202014", "by": "xvolter", "date": "2026-05-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I moved to Infuse, a paid third-app, which I use to stream my Plex media content.", "excerpt": "The official Plex app hasn't been updated to take advantage of all the hardware decoding support available on the Apple TV. I moved to Infuse, a paid third-app, which I use to stream my Plex media content. Jellyfin official apps are sporadic though, so Infuse is popular for Jellyfin users because it is well maintained and allows you to direct stream content without transcoding as often as possible. -- I'm also the de", "context": "ex-Plex employee, developer of Aviato Media Server", "use_case": "streaming Plex on Apple TV", "switched_from": "Plex", "story": "Plex's 200% Lifetime Pass price hike tries forcing users to another subscription"}, {"id": 783807696, "item_id": 48987981, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987981", "by": "tkcranny", "date": "2026-07-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Infuse is terrific software, and supports jellyfin and smb.", "excerpt": "Infuse is terrific software, and supports jellyfin and smb. I use it for jellyfin and absolutely love my setup. I ditched plex because of missing Dolby audio support and all the use hostile channels and \u201cfeatures\u201d years ago, and will never look back.", "context": "", "use_case": "media playback on Apple TV", "switched_from": "Plex", "story": "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"}]}, {"label": "Better than Plex", "summary": "Former Plex users say it plays their libraries more reliably than the official Plex app.", "quotes": [{"id": 793739632, "item_id": 49608727, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49608727", "by": "illegalbyte2", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The Apple TV experience of Infuse is night and day with Plex.", "excerpt": "Yep. Worth every cent. The Apple TV experience of Infuse is night and day with Plex. I used to constantly struggle with Plex buffering and crashing on my local network with the Apple TV app. Infuse just points to a file share on my NAS and streams beautifully, even at larger 4K files. I used Plex for years. I\u2019d never go back from Infuse now, and I\u2019m happy to pay that subscription to support its excellent development.", "context": "", "use_case": "streaming from NAS on Apple TV", "switched_from": "Plex", "story": "Jellyfin 12.0"}, {"id": 776718192, "item_id": 48544887, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544887", "by": "klausa", "date": "2026-06-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Infuse is a better Plex app than Plex is; and it supports Jellyfin and a bunch of other data sources.", "excerpt": "You should check out Infuse. Infuse is a better Plex app than Plex is; and it supports Jellyfin and a bunch of other data sources. It is, IMHO, a platonic ideal of what a \u201ctv-shaped\u201d video player app should be.", "context": "", "use_case": "video player for Plex and Jellyfin", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fox to Buy Roku Streaming Service in $22B Deal"}, {"id": 771232224, "item_id": 48202014, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202014", "by": "xvolter", "date": "2026-05-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I moved to Infuse, a paid third-app, which I use to stream my Plex media content.", "excerpt": "The official Plex app hasn't been updated to take advantage of all the hardware decoding support available on the Apple TV. I moved to Infuse, a paid third-app, which I use to stream my Plex media content. Jellyfin official apps are sporadic though, so Infuse is popular for Jellyfin users because it is well maintained and allows you to direct stream content without transcoding as often as possible. -- I'm also the de", "context": "ex-Plex employee, developer of Aviato Media Server", "use_case": "streaming Plex on Apple TV", "switched_from": "Plex", "story": "Plex's 200% Lifetime Pass price hike tries forcing users to another subscription"}]}, {"label": "Worth paying for", "summary": "Users say the Pro subscription or lifetime license is worth the money.", "quotes": [{"id": 793739632, "item_id": 49608727, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49608727", "by": "illegalbyte2", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The Apple TV experience of Infuse is night and day with Plex.", "excerpt": "Yep. Worth every cent. The Apple TV experience of Infuse is night and day with Plex. I used to constantly struggle with Plex buffering and crashing on my local network with the Apple TV app. Infuse just points to a file share on my NAS and streams beautifully, even at larger 4K files. I used Plex for years. I\u2019d never go back from Infuse now, and I\u2019m happy to pay that subscription to support its excellent development.", "context": "", "use_case": "streaming from NAS on Apple TV", "switched_from": "Plex", "story": "Jellyfin 12.0"}, {"id": 783812448, "item_id": 48988278, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48988278", "by": "clepto", "date": "2026-07-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Infuse on the Apple TV and it\u2019s great.", "excerpt": "I use Infuse on the Apple TV and it\u2019s great. I\u2019m not sure how the free version of it compares, but they have a lifetime license for it that I believe is about $100. Definitely worth it if you have a large variety of media and frequently watch on the Apple TV specifically.", "context": "", "use_case": "media playback on Apple TV", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Limited search", "summary": "It cannot search by tags or by words in movie descriptions.", "quotes": [{"id": 783831616, "item_id": 48989476, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48989476", "by": "Y-bar", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I really like Infuse, I use it with Jellyfin to stream to my Apple TV.", "excerpt": "I really like Infuse, I use it with Jellyfin to stream to my Apple TV. But there is one thing that I have repeatedly been irritated by, and it is that it cannot search by tags, nor can it search for words in the description of movies.", "context": "", "use_case": "streaming to Apple TV", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"}]}, {"label": "Large-list performance", "summary": "Scrolling lists of large collections is slow.", "quotes": [{"id": 783801024, "item_id": 48987564, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987564", "by": "JamesSwift", "date": "2026-07-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I moved to infuse instead as my ios client and its been good overall.", "excerpt": "I tried to get involved (in very minor ways) a while back but got basically no engagement from the project so I just let it be. I moved to infuse instead as my ios client and its been good overall. I really hate its list performance on large collections though.", "context": "", "use_case": "iOS Jellyfin client", "switched_from": "Swiftfin", "story": "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"}]}, {"label": "DTS playback", "summary": "One user sometimes has to re-encode movies because it cannot play their DTS audio.", "quotes": [{"id": 793681634, "item_id": 49605102, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605102", "by": "VladVladikoff", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "issues where infuse can\u2019t play DTS so I need to reencode", "excerpt": "I switched to jellyfin about 6 months ago and I can say it is definitely worse. I\u2019m constantly fighting to fix thumbnails, fix episodes to be in the same show, force rescans to get it to even recognize a show that already exists. I never had any of these problems with plex. Plex also defaults to transcoding which fixes a lot of gaps with clients that don\u2019t support certain codecs. I\u2019m often running into issues where i", "context": "", "use_case": "media playback", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jellyfin 12.0"}]}, {"label": "Paid, closed source", "summary": "It is neither free of charge nor open source, and Pro features need a subscription or license.", "quotes": [{"id": 776767410, "item_id": 48547963, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48547963", "by": "aidenn0", "date": "2026-06-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "AppleTV with Infuse (note that Infuse is neither free as in \"beer\" nor \"speech\") is what I use now for Jellyfin and video content.", "excerpt": "Kodi has a decent Jellyfin client. I only switched away from it because streaming services would break periodically. I ran it with LibreELEC on a random ARM SBC at first, then switched to using a NUC with a standard linux distro. The Pulse8 CEC adapter is a must if you go the latter route. AppleTV with Infuse (note that Infuse is neither free as in \"beer\" nor \"speech\") is what I use now for Jellyfin and video content", "context": "", "use_case": "Jellyfin and video playback", "switched_from": "Kodi", "story": "Fox to Buy Roku Streaming Service in $22B Deal"}, {"id": 793739632, "item_id": 49608727, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49608727", "by": "illegalbyte2", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The Apple TV experience of Infuse is night and day with Plex.", "excerpt": "Yep. Worth every cent. The Apple TV experience of Infuse is night and day with Plex. I used to constantly struggle with Plex buffering and crashing on my local network with the Apple TV app. Infuse just points to a file share on my NAS and streams beautifully, even at larger 4K files. I used Plex for years. I\u2019d never go back from Infuse now, and I\u2019m happy to pay that subscription to support its excellent development.", "context": "", "use_case": "streaming from NAS on Apple TV", "switched_from": "Plex", "story": "Jellyfin 12.0"}, {"id": 783812448, "item_id": 48988278, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48988278", "by": "clepto", "date": "2026-07-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Infuse on the Apple TV and it\u2019s great.", "excerpt": "I use Infuse on the Apple TV and it\u2019s great. I\u2019m not sure how the free version of it compares, but they have a lifetime license for it that I believe is about $100. Definitely worth it if you have a large variety of media and frequently watch on the Apple TV specifically.", "context": "", "use_case": "media playback on Apple TV", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"}]}], "who": [{"by": "xvolter", "context": "ex-Plex employee, developer of Aviato Media Server", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202014", "date": "2026-05-19"}], "tags": ["for Apple TV users", "for Jellyfin users", "for Plex users", "for NAS libraries"], "use_cases": ["media playback on apple tv", "video playback", "playing media from nas", "streaming from nas on apple tv", "media playback client", "media playback"], "compared": [{"slug": "plex", "name": "Plex", "co": 6, "switched_from": 3, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "jellyfin", "name": "Jellyfin", "co": 9, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "kodi", "name": "Kodi", "co": 3, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "neptune", "name": "Neptune", "co": 1, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986091", "title": "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team", "mentions": 5}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604861", "title": "Jellyfin 12.0", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48540499", "title": "Fox to Buy Roku Streaming Service in $22B Deal", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50207910", "title": "Apple Music 404 Not Found", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49030547", "title": "The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198836", "title": "Plex's 200% Lifetime Pass price hike tries forcing users to another subscription", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 2}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 3}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 1}}, "quotes": [{"id": 803455824, "item_id": 50215989, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50215989", "by": "crazygringo", "date": "2026-10-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "But I use it in Infuse, which is a third-party app that supports it", "excerpt": "Yeah I'm aware it's hit-or-miss. But I use it in Infuse, which is a third-party app that supports it, even with its own framework.", "context": "", "use_case": "video playback", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple Music 404 Not Found"}, {"id": 793773456, "item_id": 49610841, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610841", "by": "rdudek", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It's a such an amazing app and it plays everything I throw at it without any buffering or transcoding issues.", "excerpt": "Is Plex/jellyfin even necessary for Infuse? I've been using Infuse for years now and it has direct access to my NAS to look for media content and just directly plays it. It's a such an amazing app and it plays everything I throw at it without any buffering or transcoding issues. The Pro version pretty much has all the necessary codecs, including all the dolby things for hdr/atmos. It just works so well.", "context": "", "use_case": "playing media from NAS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jellyfin 12.0"}, {"id": 793739632, "item_id": 49608727, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49608727", "by": "illegalbyte2", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The Apple TV experience of Infuse is night and day with Plex.", "excerpt": "Yep. Worth every cent. The Apple TV experience of Infuse is night and day with Plex. I used to constantly struggle with Plex buffering and crashing on my local network with the Apple TV app. Infuse just points to a file share on my NAS and streams beautifully, even at larger 4K files. I used Plex for years. I\u2019d never go back from Infuse now, and I\u2019m happy to pay that subscription to support its excellent development.", "context": "", "use_case": "streaming from NAS on Apple TV", "switched_from": "Plex", "story": "Jellyfin 12.0"}, {"id": 793706144, "item_id": 49606634, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49606634", "by": "vulkoingim", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use it on the AppleTV and across the rest of my devices! Works like a charm", "excerpt": "Yeaah, second that! I use it on the AppleTV and across the rest of my devices! Works like a charm, and coupled with Tailscale I can access everything on my Nas everywhere :) I have it configured to use Jellyfin as the source, runing on said nas", "context": "", "use_case": "media playback client", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jellyfin 12.0"}, {"id": 793681634, "item_id": 49605102, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605102", "by": "VladVladikoff", "date": "2026-09-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "issues where infuse can\u2019t play DTS so I need to reencode", "excerpt": "I switched to jellyfin about 6 months ago and I can say it is definitely worse. I\u2019m constantly fighting to fix thumbnails, fix episodes to be in the same show, force rescans to get it to even recognize a show that already exists. I never had any of these problems with plex. Plex also defaults to transcoding which fixes a lot of gaps with clients that don\u2019t support certain codecs. I\u2019m often running into issues where i", "context": "", "use_case": "media playback", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jellyfin 12.0"}, {"id": 784498001, "item_id": 49031125, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031125", "by": "radcod3", "date": "2026-07-23", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use jellyfin with Infuse, Kodi, mpv-shim", "excerpt": "I use jellyfin with Infuse, Kodi, mpv-shim and a couple of mobile clients as well. No major issues so far, even my parents use it via Kodi.", "context": "", "use_case": "Jellyfin client", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin"}, {"id": 783881249, "item_id": 48992578, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48992578", "by": "tbeseda", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used Swiftfin, switched to Infuse", "excerpt": "Keep an eye on Neptune. I used Swiftfin, switched to Infuse, and am now using Neptune daily. It's coming along really nicely. https://neptuneplayer.com", "context": "", "use_case": "media client", "switched_from": "Swiftfin", "story": "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"}, {"id": 783831616, "item_id": 48989476, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48989476", "by": "Y-bar", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I really like Infuse, I use it with Jellyfin to stream to my Apple TV.", "excerpt": "I really like Infuse, I use it with Jellyfin to stream to my Apple TV. But there is one thing that I have repeatedly been irritated by, and it is that it cannot search by tags, nor can it search for words in the description of movies.", "context": "", "use_case": "streaming to Apple TV", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"}, {"id": 783812448, "item_id": 48988278, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48988278", "by": "clepto", "date": "2026-07-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Infuse on the Apple TV and it\u2019s great.", "excerpt": "I use Infuse on the Apple TV and it\u2019s great. I\u2019m not sure how the free version of it compares, but they have a lifetime license for it that I believe is about $100. Definitely worth it if you have a large variety of media and frequently watch on the Apple TV specifically.", "context": "", "use_case": "media playback on Apple TV", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"}, {"id": 783807696, "item_id": 48987981, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987981", "by": "tkcranny", "date": "2026-07-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Infuse is terrific software, and supports jellyfin and smb.", "excerpt": "Infuse is terrific software, and supports jellyfin and smb. I use it for jellyfin and absolutely love my setup. I ditched plex because of missing Dolby audio support and all the use hostile channels and \u201cfeatures\u201d years ago, and will never look back.", "context": "", "use_case": "media playback on Apple TV", "switched_from": "Plex", "story": "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"}, {"id": 783801024, "item_id": 48987564, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987564", "by": "JamesSwift", "date": "2026-07-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I moved to infuse instead as my ios client and its been good overall.", "excerpt": "I tried to get involved (in very minor ways) a while back but got basically no engagement from the project so I just let it be. I moved to infuse instead as my ios client and its been good overall. I really hate its list performance on large collections though.", "context": "", "use_case": "iOS Jellyfin client", "switched_from": "Swiftfin", "story": "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"}, {"id": 776767410, "item_id": 48547963, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48547963", "by": "aidenn0", "date": "2026-06-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "AppleTV with Infuse (note that Infuse is neither free as in \"beer\" nor \"speech\") is what I use now for Jellyfin and video content.", "excerpt": "Kodi has a decent Jellyfin client. I only switched away from it because streaming services would break periodically. I ran it with LibreELEC on a random ARM SBC at first, then switched to using a NUC with a standard linux distro. The Pulse8 CEC adapter is a must if you go the latter route. AppleTV with Infuse (note that Infuse is neither free as in \"beer\" nor \"speech\") is what I use now for Jellyfin and video content", "context": "", "use_case": "Jellyfin and video playback", "switched_from": "Kodi", "story": "Fox to Buy Roku Streaming Service in $22B Deal"}, {"id": 776718192, "item_id": 48544887, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544887", "by": "klausa", "date": "2026-06-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Infuse is a better Plex app than Plex is; and it supports Jellyfin and a bunch of other data sources.", "excerpt": "You should check out Infuse. Infuse is a better Plex app than Plex is; and it supports Jellyfin and a bunch of other data sources. It is, IMHO, a platonic ideal of what a \u201ctv-shaped\u201d video player app should be.", "context": "", "use_case": "video player for Plex and Jellyfin", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fox to Buy Roku Streaming Service in $22B Deal"}, {"id": 771232224, "item_id": 48202014, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202014", "by": "xvolter", "date": "2026-05-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I moved to Infuse, a paid third-app, which I use to stream my Plex media content.", "excerpt": "The official Plex app hasn't been updated to take advantage of all the hardware decoding support available on the Apple TV. I moved to Infuse, a paid third-app, which I use to stream my Plex media content. Jellyfin official apps are sporadic though, so Infuse is popular for Jellyfin users because it is well maintained and allows you to direct stream content without transcoding as often as possible. -- I'm also the de", "context": "ex-Plex employee, developer of Aviato Media Server", "use_case": "streaming Plex on Apple TV", "switched_from": "Plex", "story": "Plex's 200% Lifetime Pass price hike tries forcing users to another subscription"}]}