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

submitted 3 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 3 months ago (3 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

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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 10 points 3 months ago (4 children)

The only reason I went with plex was easy remote access. Now with the state on reverse proxies and tailscale tunnels we happily ditched it.

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[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I never shared my server anyway, but a lot of the other design decisions they've made over the last couple years drove me to Jellyfin. My issue though is I cannot figure out how to set it up properly like I had Plex setup with genres, sort by added to server, lists, etc. I can't tell if I'm missing something obvious, or Jellyfin just lacks those features and I need to get a plugin or something. Anyway, sorry for the rant. Just hoping someone has experienced similar and might point me in the right direction.

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[–] 2FortGaming@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Any recommendations for Linux distros for a Jellyfin server?

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 12 points 3 months ago

Debian and Ubuntu have the most docs and guides If you know what you're doing nixos or ucore would be pretty unbreakable Paid for product I love Unraid

Trash guides is pretty good for getting started https://trash-guides.info/

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[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 8 points 3 months ago

Longterm MythTv user here, watching the discussions

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[–] sixty@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

Welcome to JF

[–] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I ultimately want to ditch Plex, but as an existing lifetime member, it currently handles everything so smoothly for my users that I don't see enough benefits in switching. Particularly on the music streaming side (PlexAmp), I think the experience is the most polished one I've seen.

My hope is that by the time the lifetime Plex Pass experience has become enshittified, Jellyfin will be more ready than it is today, and I'll make a switch then.

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