Plex never worked outside my network so I’m not worried about that on Jellyfin
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LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 10 months ago[deleted]
Genius@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
non_burglar@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months ago
[deleted]jagermo@feddit.org 10 months 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
non_burglar@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yep. My son lives in another city and uses my jellyfin server. Actually since yesterday, because Plex stopped allowing him to watch remotely.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
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.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
[deleted]gdog05@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months 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
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months 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.