Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April

gdog05@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• merthyr1831@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Before now I was on the sunk cost fallacy of not wanting to teach my extended family how to use Jellyfin instead of plex but after this I’m already mid-way through setting up a Jellyfin docker container on my server and I only found out an hour ago

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• keyez@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve been testing out jellyfin for the last couple months but it doesn’t really fill the void of this specific feature that’s being locked behind a pay wall. If anyone has good recommendations for securely and reliably hosting jellyfin behind SSL and auth with email password resets where I don’t have to worry about it as much as Plex.

  I use jellyfin locally but for a handful of remote clients I have I may well block off their access they’re not going to be able to figure out my hand spun services and wall of text.

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Forget the Auth, use VPN profiles as access controls. Give them to trusted folks.

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    • deeferg@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Dumb question but should there be VPNs operating on both ends, server and client? Or just the client because I’m guessing the server might change the connection address.

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      • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        A VPN Server on the server or home network (look into PiVPN for instance), and a VPN Client on clients (look at openvpn for instance).

        Good luck and let me know if you have any further questions - I’m more than happy to answer!

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  • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Authentik + jellyfin SSO plugin?

    I haven’t tried it out personally, but I use authentik, for that you can just create a password policy, then add a new stage for identification (just make sure to add the email field), and an email stage, then create a flow.

    More work on your end than paying someone else obviously.

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• KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Jellyfin is still way behind Plex in general performance but I keep a VM of it running and updated, for when the day comes that Plex is absolutely worthless.

  Which at this rate, is, well, we’re getting there.

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• obinice@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Alas my TV (LG WebOS 2) doesn’t have an application for Jellyfin, or I’d have switched years ago :-(

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  • gdog05@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is there an emby app available or Kodi? The base of Jellyfin should work in either. Plug and play as far as I’m aware with maybe some issues for certain versions.

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• Limonene@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Jellyfin depends on proprietary Microsoft .NET, even on Linux.

  It’s still better than Plex and Emby, which are fully proprietary, and have no source code. But I will stick with sshfs with kodi, and nginx plus mpv for now.

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  • Smash@lemmy.self-hosted.site ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Except, it isn’t, .NET Core is an open source framework by the .NET Foundation

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    • Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      @Smash @Limonene Right, it *was* proprietary. Which is why adoption of it by free software devs is so slow. Ubuntu only got dotnet packages in the past few years! (RIP @vorlon )

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