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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.
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".
I got Jellyfin set up and available for streaming in less than two hours. Plex kept demanding that my friend buy a pass to download something, so I was like, nah. Jellyfin works flawlessly and is (in my opinion) a far superior option. I constantly had issues with Plex.
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.
pretty easy with tailscale
Explain how you connect your in-laws roku to Jellyfin with tailscale.
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
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).
Guess what I didn’t have to setup with plex? That’s right, a reverse proxy.
Now you do have to, unless you pay for Plex and its convenience.
A VPS with a reverse proxy connected to your tailnet and a dyndns domain. It would be cheaper than Plex premium, you can use the vps for other stuff, and you have 100% certainty it will never ever show ads.
If you want to try it I think you should be able to do it With a Raspberry pi or equivalent on their network running Tailscale, use iptables to forward all inbound traffic on the Jellyfin port from that device to your Jellyfin server which is also running tailscale. Connect their Roku using the pi as the address for Jellyfin. I've not tried this with Jellyfin but I had something similar working with a Minecraft server
Step one: get your in-laws a cheap Apple TV from whatever site you use for used electronics. Or even a new one.
Step one: you buy it and send it to me if you’re so bent on people running Jellyfin.
I’m only bent on people running software on shit hardware. Roku is bottom barrel crap along with cheap TV sticks.
Lol
Edit: honestly, I could start itemizing why this person's response is terrible, but all it feels like it deserves is "lol".
well hello Mr. cranky 😅
Vs “just install Plex on any NAS from its built in appstore” that’s like 42 steps too many for the regular user.
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.
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.
Yeah, it‘s okay. But PlexAmp just plays in a different league.
Yes, and it’s nowhere close to PlexAmp. Have you ever used PlexAmp?
Yea, I come from Plex. Why do you ask?
Then you’d know that FinAmp doesn’t have a quarter of the features of Plexamp.
Love jellyfin, super easy to install on my proxmox server. Its been running for nearly a year now, no problems. ❤️
Same. The setup was super easy.
took all of 5 minutes to convert plex-on-pi to jellyfin-on-pi. Probably harder to rename the host than install.. fstab's already set up and errything