themachine

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[–] themachine@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah I didnt abandon Plex because I couldn't afford it. I have a number of gripes with plex but as long as it remained free I had no strong motivated to get rid of it. Now that I would have to pay though I have no interest in keeping it around. I am quite happy with jellyfin even if it may lack polish on some of its facets and I regularly accept inconvenience to uphold my own operating philosphies.

[–] themachine@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Correct. Remote streaming used to be free. That changed...in April? I don't remember the exact date but it was announced earlier this year and has been slowly rolling out. Now you either have to have a Plex pass for your server or each user who wants to remote stream has to pay for a remote watching subscription and show in OPs screenshot.

There are of course ways to get around this such as all your users being on a VPN so as far as Plex can see its "internal". I suppose if you use a reverse proxy but didn't pass X-forwarded-for headers then that may get around it as well? I never messed with it as I was looking for an excuse to dump Plex anyway. Now I'm finally jellyfin only.

[–] themachine@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Yes, however using the relay is not a prerequisite to being required to pay for a Plex subscription. That is what he is trying to say.

I can run Plex on the open internet and not use their relay at all, however if the IP of the viewer is not an interal IP on the same subnet as Plex (I assume the same subnet is required) then you'll be greeted with the Plex paywall.

You are absolutely correct that it costs money to run a relay, but the relay has nothing to directly do with the paywall.