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People who are staying on Plex, have you tried Jellyfin? What about it do you not prefer? (real question) (discuss.online)

submitted 11 hours ago by kiol@discuss.online to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Honest question, because I know multiple people who are not looking to jump ship since they already have the Plex Pass.

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[–] Bryan065@kbin.earth 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

This was the security report from awhile back:

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415

Lot's of things have been fixed but theres still much to do. The issue was broken down to smaller issues for tracking and I check back every once in a while.

Even if there were no security issues, exposing jellyfin is also another can... choice of:

open up ports
cloudflare (and potential ban for video content on the free tier, even if caching is disabled)
vps with enough bandwidth

[–] b34k@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Don’t you have to open a port for Plex remote access?

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

You do not but you'll be severely bandwidth limited. It'll go through their servers if a port can't be opened.

[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

That sounds like you do have to open one then? Otherwise you are "severely bandwidth limited" and who wants that?

[–] b34k@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Oh I forgot about that option

[–] kiol@discuss.online 3 points 10 hours ago

I think the difference is Plex offers a web address you can use for logging into Plex and for sharing it with others. So, you get a friendly admin interface with oauth for logging in from other popular services as the Plex user getting setup.