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

inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ghost@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Jellyfin is just so much better, imo. Much cleaner, less stuff that I don’t actually need.

  I’m a plex pass lifetime owner, but I don’t regret switching to Jellyfin one bit.

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• ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Does Jellyfin do remote streaming?

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  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes.

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    • bishbosh@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Can’t you just give your IP address to folks and forward the port on your router?

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      • treverflume@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Or just use tailscale. Much easier.

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      • Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes

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    • LoganNineFingers@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Here’s the thing though, for the average plex user (myself included) you’ve already used too many acronyms and words I don’t understand. Plex serves a purpose for a lot of people, people who are even willing to pay for it to be easy.

      Kind of reminds me of Netflix before anyone else did streaming. They had so much stuff I stopped sailing.

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      • maniajack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yep. Imo now with Plex you are paying for a much simpler and accessible setup. Seems fair enough to me. Lemmy FOSS or die users (every else in this thread seemingly) are not the target audience of Plex but they sure love to complain about it.

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, you don’t need a RP.
      You can and should set it up though as it’s a very good convenient feature.

      But you can expose Jellyfin directly.

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    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well that sucks.

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      • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, welcome to the easy, fast, cheap conundrum.

        If you’re willing to do a bit of learning and asking the community for help if you get a little stuck, you’ve got a free solution, if not, which is perfectly okay mind you, then Plex is your solution and you have to decide how much you’re willing to pay.

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      • tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Just put it behind tailscale and use the IP. Doing this for a two years now with weekly anime watch together with my friends. Not elegant but enough.

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  • Sarmyth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    With the caviat that you have tailscale enabled on both devices. This prevents it from being used on a roku outside your home but you could access it remotely from your computer/phone/tablet.

    It is significantly harder than Plex, currently. There are improvements happening all the time though.

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    • Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You very much can create an external port and access anywhere without any of this. No tailscale needed but I’d recommend one knows what they are doing…

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    • hikaru755@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Huh? I’m streaming from my Jellyfin just fine when I’m on the go, with no tailscale or other VPN set up

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      • Sarmyth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It was significantly harder to set up remote access for Jellyfin than Plex 6 months ago. I ha ent attempted since. With Plex there was literally no set up, it just works. Until it just works without having to do any extra work, Jellyfin will struggle with adoption.

        I have both running, and thatd a big difference to me. Also I prefer the way Plex detects intros and credits for skipping and their detection for captions. Once that’s all sorted Jellyfin wins in every field.

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    • SirSamuel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hmmm, i use a Synology NAS with Jellyfin installed and my family can use their Roku TVs without issue. I didn’t realize Synology made a difference there

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      • thisNotMyName@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It totally depends on how you expose it to the outside world. If it’s exposed just like it is, it works fine with every device. If you put an authentication before it (e.g. Authelia), it can only be accessed by browsers from outside the network. That being said, it’s not recommended to expose Jellyfin directly, because there are a ton of security flaws. Best practice is to use a VPN

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      • Sarmyth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I do this too but it only works on my home network not remotely.

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you can set it up? Yup.
    Behind CGNAT? Maybe you need to set up a relay or something to circumvent it.

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• tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah I switched 2-3 years ago because so many features were paywalled and on jellyfin I can at least use plugins

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  • HorseFD@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I switched when I had a power outage and couldn’t log into Plex locally to watch my own media. Very happy with Jellyfin since then.

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• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    does jellyfin have a roku app?

    Yes, it streams pretty well, it has some UX issues, but it will let you get off plex as it stands right now with most of your needs covered.

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  • nick_99@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It works, but isn’t nearly as user friendly.

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  • Jazsta@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes. I use mine daily and it works great

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You should ditch Roku amyway considering the posts I have seen here on lemmy.

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