We set up live Plex, Jellyfin and Emby servers and streamed the same 8 film and TV clips through each at five connection speeds. Silux Media had to match or beat each server's picture quality — measured on every frame with Netflix's VMAF metric — before we counted a single byte.
The result
Silux Media used 44–62% less data than all three at every speed we tested. At the popular 1080p setting that's about 1.0 GB per hour of HD instead of 2.5–2.7 GB.
Why it matters
- Mobile data bundles last more than twice as long
- Films keep playing on slow home uploads, satellite and hotel Wi-Fi
- Less waiting, less buffering, the same picture