Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April
ryan@social.binarydad.com 4 weeks ago@Tinks @randomaside what i don't understand is, what processing/compute are they using on their end? My server is transcoding it and I'm connecting directly to it.
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Indirect Playback goes through them first. Also, they host DynDNS for the Plex media server to make accessing it remotely from apps easier.
The second thing is a joke to host and requires no resources. The first one can be a significant resource usage item.