Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing
Revilo62@lemmy.world 1 month agoYou can if you don’t pay. The only thing they’re blocking is traffic through their servers. If you expose the port to your local instance, they have no control over it. I’m not sure what about this is so difficult for you to understand.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No, you can’t.
Once again, this is wrong. They are blocking traffic to your server even if you don’t go through theirs, unless you pay.
You cannot do what you’re suggesting if you don’t pay.
Revilo62@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes you can. If you know what you’re doing with networking, the Plex instance will have no idea whether you’re remote or not. You can make every remote user look like they’re internal to your network. Plex would have no way to stop that. They could incorporate more intense DRM, requiring things like same GPS location, but even that could likely be spoofed.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You’re saying two completely different incompatible things. In your last comment you said “You can just forward a port”. You can’t “just forward a port” or do any of the other things you suggested with Plex for free. Period.
The second thing you’re saying is using a VPN to trick Plex into thinking you’re local. You may be able to do that, but that’s entirely different from “just forwarding a port” or using a reverse proxy, or any of the other normal, easy ways to remotely stream over Jellyfin. It’s not only more work than sharing Jellyfin, but it’s also very limiting based on your users devices. For example, many people are streaming Plex, Emby, Jellyfin on RokuTVs. RokuTVs have an app for Jellyfin that can just connect directly, but it does not have a Tailscale client. So if you want to trick Plex into thinking they’re local, you’d now have to pay money to get them a new device, and then you’d have the configure the VPN on it, and troubleshoot that when it breaks. A lot of people are going to just opt for Jellyfin which is much easier and doesn’t require buying new hardware.
Revilo62@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You don’t need a VPN to trick Plex. Exposing the web ui to the world will likely show traffic coming from your router, which is internal. If it doesn’t, you may have to mess with some settings, but a VPN isn’t required to access the web ui.
Jellyfin is also very limiting based on your users devices. There is no Jellyfin app for Samsung TVs (without sideloading) or Playstation. Users there are shit out of luck.
The thing you’re failing to grasp is that Jellyfin is not nearly as simple as you’re making it out to be. They both have trade offs. One or which being every single Jellyfin app is complete trash.
If Jellyfin works better for you fucking go for it, but claiming this is the death of Plex, Jellyfin is way easier, is laughable.