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

submitted 9 months ago by otters_raft@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I’ve never used jellyfin, but do they also host proxy servers? AFAIK plex does and its costing them money, hence the need for paywalling this. You can still use tailscale and reverse proxy to allow remote streaming

[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

You can still use tailscale and reverse proxy to allow remote streaming

I used to use Plex and when I discovered there was paid remote streaming function - that goes through their servers - my reactions were "Haha, no"* and checking whether my existing WireGuard setup would do it instead.

Whaddya know, remote streaming using Plex and PlexAmp at no cost.

*Not because I begrudge them recouping costs, but because it's designed that way to justify charging for it, gives them whatever information they want from my viewing, and it's not self-hosting if there's any third party cloud/account component to it.

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Jellyfin does not host anything. With this change free Plex users behind a reverse proxy (or VPN) and Jellyfin users behind a reverse proxy (or VPN) work the same for remote access.

The only difference is that Plex no longer provides expensive services for free, while Jellyfin never provided them.

[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

This is my understanding and I’m surprised with the negative reaction. I think jellyfin is the better alternative being FOSS but this is not the reason.