Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing
Revilo62@lemmy.world 1 week agolike you would with Plex
And that’s the point I’m making. The work required to expose Jellyfin to the world is the same work to expose Plex. This change to Plex just charges for the relay servers, you can still do free remote streaming in the same way Jellyfin does. So if feels a bit ridiculous to claim Plex is dead and everyone should switch to Jellyfin, when Jellyfin isn’t actually providing anything Plex doesn’t still do for free.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You’ve misunderstood Plex’s announcement.
This is not correct. The change to Plex affects all remote streaming, regardless of whether you’re using the relay or direct streaming.
To be clear,
Revilo62@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It still works with internal streaming, and if you configure the networking correctly it won’t know the difference. If you setup Tailscale, you can still do Plex remote streaming for free. You just can’t rely on plex.tv to relay your connection automatically.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Ok so before when you said:
What you actually meant was the work required to expose Jellyfin to the world is entirely different from the work you have to do to now expose Plex without paying. And the simplest solution of forwarding a port will no longer work for free, and anyone you share it with now also has to connect their device to Tailscale (if they even can on their device) even if they’re non-technical?
Where as with Jellyfin you can remotely stream without having to do ANY of that for free…
Are you starting to understand why this might make people just switch to Jellyfin?
Revilo62@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You can still just forward a port. Just expose the web ui port to the world, the same way Jellyfin does. That’s not recommended though, it has potential security issues. The recommended way would require a reverse proxy or tailscale. Then you’re right back to the same issues no matter the service you’re using.