Comment on Plex will be blocking access from at least VPS provider

• kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve switched few years ago and didn’t look back .

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  • droans@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I installed Jellyfin on my server but the Android TV app is just so awful.

    It honestly feels like a webpage from 2005 with all the blocky elements, terrible scrolling, and no way to sort.

    If you want to go to, say, Workaholics, you have to scroll through your entire library until you get there. There’s no option to go straight to W. And, don’t worry, the scrolling is very slow the whole time!

    The search seems to work maybe 10% of the time. I’ve typed in the name of a movie and it wouldn’t find it, but it did find episodes of shows that kinda match. I’ve typed in names of TV shows and it’s found nothing. Both times, the movies and shows existed in my library.

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    • Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hmm never had a problem with Jellyfin on the shield pro or cigar one. On the cigar one Netflix always stops showing video and just the loading screen.

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  • Deftdrummer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m curious, just checked out their site.

    I’m a little alarmed at needing to modify SSL and port forward and all that shit. My experiences haven’t been great with port forwarding in the past.

    In short jelly fin doesn’t seem as easy as you are all making it out to be.

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    • Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s only if you want to watch it outside your home network, and either way I would recommend not just opening a port to the world like that. I’d say to use Tailscale (which is trivially easy to install) for remote viewing.

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      • Deftdrummer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I will check into this Trailscale. Thanks!

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    • Molecular0079@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In short jelly fin doesn’t seem as easy as you are all making it out to be.

      It does definitely require a bit more work, especially because Plex does things like authentication and network access for you, but that’s exactly why all of this drama got kicked up in the first place. Plex doesn’t want to get into legal troubles, however unlikely that may be, for providing access to whatever content people are hosting. It isn’t true self-hosting.

      True self-hosting requires work and a small amount of technical knowledge, but IMHO it’s worth it for the freedom, privacy, and control.

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      • Deftdrummer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes you’re totally correct, I’ll have to do some more reading.

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    • TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You have to port forward for Plex as well.

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      • Deftdrummer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No I believe upnp took care of that in some form, Plex sets it up.

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