Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee.

If anyone needs it: https://jellyfin.org/

  • littleomid@feddit.org
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    4 months ago

    Am I the only one who thinks jellyfin is not only superior to pure, but also way more intuitive to setup? I still don’t understand how plexs routing works, and why I need a central account in order to connect to my own server.

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      4 months ago

      Is it more intuitive to set up for remote streaming to friends…? That’s the use case here and as far as I know the answer is a big “no”.

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        4 months ago

        If you have a static IP it’s super easy. If you don’t, it’s less easy, but you should configure Plex the same way if you don’t want to use their proxy, which lowers the speed anyway.

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            4 months ago

            forgot most of you here are americans, roku isn’t a thing in my country. everyone who i share to uses a pc, htpc, phone or tablet for that

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              4 months ago

              Roku is also a thing in Europe.

              Though I also gave up trying to set up Tailscale for people and just exposed Jellyfin (behind a reverse proxy).

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            4 months ago

            Step one: get your in-laws a cheap Apple TV from whatever site you use for used electronics. Or even a new one.

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                4 months ago

                I’m only bent on people running software on shit hardware. Roku is bottom barrel crap along with cheap TV sticks.

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          4 months ago

          Lol

          Edit: honestly, I could start itemizing why this person’s response is terrible, but all it feels like it deserves is “lol”.

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      4 months ago

      Love jellyfin, super easy to install on my proxmox server. Its been running for nearly a year now, no problems. ❤️

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      4 months ago

      Probably not the only one, but configuring your server for outside access is way easier with Plex.

      Since I mainly use these services for streaming my music collection (long time cd collector), I declare that Plexamp is simply superior to jellyfin. It is really awesome and feature-rich and jellyfin does not even come close to Plexamp regarding music in my opinion.

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        4 months ago

        Have you checked out the Finamp app? It’s to Jellyfin what Plexamp is to Plex. It’s much better for music that Jellyfin proper.