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non_burglar@lemmy.world 3 days agoI 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 3 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 3 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 3 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.
non_burglar@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Sorry, I meant “Plex took away free remote streaming”.
You’re being really, really snippy. Either have a coffee or take a breather, but calling strangers liars is way offside.
I’m not lying, I can show you my Fw config. My son called me yesterday saying he couldn’t watch Plex, something about the Plex pass. WO I just changed the Fw rule DST nat mangle port and told him to use jellyfin. The user is local, so that’s dead easy. Done in 10 minutes.
And yes, most users don’t have this kind of experience, granted. But Plex comes with its own stupidities, like in 2020 when my wife had to pay $5 for the Plex app so she could access our library. Or the exercise of sharing libraries if you don’t have a Plex pass, which is a real pain.
But that wasn’t my point. I was trying to relay that jellyfin isn’t as buggy and difficult as a lot of self hosters claim.
jagermo@feddit.org 3 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 3 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
jagermo@feddit.org 3 days ago
I mean, if they don’t want to learn, there is always netflix, prime, Disney +.
Or stay with plex, no shade.
Or you take an afternoon and build something cool like this.