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Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
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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/

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[–] tehmics@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That's the opposite of my experience. Jellyfin just works and immediately exposes the content we're looking for, plex tries overloading you with bullshit and burying your actual content

[–] kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I believe you. I feel that way about iTunes (trauma intensifies).

But Jellyfin doesn't have that reputation.

[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Are you seriously telling us you reading from three reddit threads from almost a decade ago and consider that "reputation"?

[–] kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I am beginning to remember what made me think Jellyfin wasn't user friendly.

Maybe it wasn't the user interface after all.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

You’re not wrong.

[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

The only real usability issue I've had is auto cataloging. It isnt right much of the time. But I don't have any remote users that don't have network access so that simplifies things a whole lot.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For remote streaming to, say, your mum's house? (Or a friend, etc)?

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, after I set up the server properly (reverse proxy). With this change the same setup on the server side is necessary for remote streaming with free Plex.

My mum puts in the domain, username and password and starts streaming.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

…reverse proxy…

Guess what I didn’t have to setup with Plex or Emby.

[–] Mondez@lemdro.id 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's because you had somone elses servers doing that part for you.

[–] kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Come on, I love libre software as much as the next Lemming, but the Plex TV and mobile app is leagues ahead in terms of usability over jellyfin.

I still prefer jellyfin for many other reasons, but in terms of UX and UI for the average person it's an easy win for Plex

[–] tehmics@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

You must be having a wildly different experience than me then, because I don't even understand how you can make that claim