Because he’s right. You can’t access your own server remotely without plex’s infrastructure (provided you don’t just set up that infrastructure yourself). You don’t need to open ports or anything. Your server reaches out to plex server, which creates an entry point to your network. Your stream is then either routed through their servers or possibly setup as P2P stream.
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LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 2 weeks agoWhy is this getting upvoted? Plex isn’t running a server. You are. Your computer and your media files are quite literally “the server” that is serving the files to you remotely. Plex is at best doing authentication.
ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
That’s just not correct. Mate. It’s setting up a secure route from the client to your Plex server. It’s essentially doing what Tailscale does but just handling the client setup automatically via their Plex authentication. They are authenticating the connection and setting up the route from the client to the server. They are not handling petabytes of data people are streaming.
ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Ok sure, they aren’t routing, just using P2P like I mentioned. It’s still not possible to access remotely without using plex services. This is what you are paying for. If you don’t want to pay for their auto-config remote streaming it’s easy enough to do it yourself.
tantalizer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I can’t back this up but I highly doubt that the media is played through Plex’ server.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
For remote streaming they do, here are their docs on it …plex.tv/…/216766168-accessing-a-server-through-r…