what? It’s not like everyone needs to run jeyfin at home. the oy thing you need to use is the jeyfin webapp, which I don’t understand how is it more complicated than netflix or any other similar service. you log in, pick a movie and hit play. that’s it.
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LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 4 days agoI don’t know how people who have gone through the trouble of self hosting and I’ve taken all the time to learn how all of this works still don’t understand that most people are not capable of using Jellyfin and/or do not have the desire to learn how to do it.
You may as well tell everyone to learn how to change the oil in their cars and lecture them about that, or tell people to always make a home cooked meal instead of going out to dinner. Some people are just going to pay for the convenience.
Anyone who has used jellyfish knows that it is no trivial matter getting it working outside of your network, especially for other people. I can set up a Plex server at somebody’s house in like 30 minutes and get anybody streaming on their devices in half that time. They don’t even compare when it comes to setup and ease of use.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Have you set up jellyfish at your home, given access to a friend who could not setup Jellyfin themselves, and successfully got them playing on their TV, table tablet, and/or phone? Have you been able to set them up without them having to call you every week?
gdog05@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Have you set up jellyfish at your home, given access to a friend outside of your network who could not setup Jellyfin themselves, and successfully got them playing on their TV, table tablet, and/or phone? Have you been able to set them up without them having to call you every week?
Yes. It’s very easy. It might not have used to be easy but it is for the last couple of years. Dead simple. About a dozen people use my Jellyfin server across TV’s, phones, tablets, laptops. None of them are what I would call techies. It’s as simple for them as Netflix.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 4 days ago
If you have not set up a VPN for accessing your Jellyfin, I would suggest looking into the myriad of security issues the Jellyfin Backend has. Jellyfin has no business being accessible from the public internet
Genius@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Plex never worked outside my network so I’m not worried about that on Jellyfin
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Jellyfin is basically as easy to use as plex within the same network. I’ve set up both dueing the past 6 months. The only big difference is that plex is much more of a pain to work through port forwarding.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
within the same network
Pretty limited usecase man
non_burglar@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I don’t mean to diminish your comment, but I just went through the setup process for both Plex and jellyfin (moving to new hardware) and there was no significant difference between the setups.
Maybe this wasn’t the case a few years ago, but jellyfin is just a setup, point to libraries, and enable hardware accel.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Have you set up jellyfin to play outside of your home network?
Have you set it up for somebody else to play it outside of your home network?
non_burglar@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yep. My son lives in another city and uses my jellyfin server. Actually since yesterday, because Plex stopped allowing him to watch remotely.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
So you’ve used both and you’re going to tell me that getting him working on Jellyfin outside of your network was just as easy as Plex?
Remote didn’t “stop working.” They’re charging for it. I think it’s shitty, but don’t act like it’s broken.
Frankly I think you’re just lying now.
jagermo@feddit.org 4 days ago
My Jellyfin tunnels via traefik and cloudflared. However, the normal Android app somehow can’t login, but streamyfin works like a charm. I always had issues with plex, because it relied on their own service. But jellyfin now simply works, pretty nifty
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Yeah let’s get the average person who run plex’s using traefik and cloudflare and tell them “it simply works” lol come on man