Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica

• tehmics@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s the opposite of my experience. Jellyfin just works and immediately exposes the content we’re looking for, plex tries overloading you with bullshit and burying your actual content

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  • kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I believe you. I feel that way about iTunes (trauma intensifies).

    But Jellyfin doesn’t have that reputation.

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    • BaroqueInMind@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Are you seriously telling us you reading from three reddit threads from almost a decade ago and consider that “reputation “?

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      • kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I am beginning to remember what made me think Jellyfin wasn’t user friendly.

        Maybe it wasn’t the user interface after all.

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For remote streaming to, say, your mum’s house? (Or a friend, etc)?

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    • Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes, after I set up the server properly (reverse proxy). With this change the same setup on the server side is necessary for remote streaming with free Plex.

      My mum puts in the domain, username and password and starts streaming.

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      • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        …reverse proxy…

        Guess what I didn’t have to setup with Plex or Emby.

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• IdleSheep@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is legit the opposite of my experience. I am a relatively tech savvy user, I like to fiddle with all the settings and an ugly UI doesn’t inherently deter me as long as the experience is good, so when I first installed jellyfin I was ready to have a clunky experience fighting the UI.

  Despite that, I was legitimately surprised at how Jellyfin was far less confusing for me to use out of the box than plex ever was. I found Plex’s UI very confusing to navigate on my TV and my family did not like using it either. In Jellyfin all the content is just there and very easily categorized.

  It made me wonder why anyone would use plex.

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• Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I set up Jellyfin on my mother-in-law’s TV, it’s just push play.

  My mum has an Apple TV (the device, not the subscription) and on there she uses swiftfin. The only issue has been sound not working on certain audio tracks on certain movies, but in general it is easy for anyone.

  Both are very familiar interfaces for anyone used to playing something from a streaming service.

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  • matchbook1498@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not sure about swiftfin but try the option downmix to stereo somewhere in the client playback settings

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    • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thanks, I didn’t manage to find many options in swiftfin, you don’t know if I can enforce it for a user from the server side?

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      • matchbook1498@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That will be transcoding so from the server side make sure it’s enabled and working. Then you can limit the bitrate (per-user, or globally)

        This way the client will stream the content and not direct play it.

        Hopefully this fixes the issue with audio.

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• fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I never really understood intuitive as a description for user interfaces. I remember back when opinion articles on Tech news websites would use that term to mean it “looks and functions exactly like Windows XP”

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  • SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Idiomatic usage breaks down into ‘familiar’, so, confusing intuition with knowledge, or ‘discoverable’, which is more accurate and describes things like icons and tooltips and menus, where the rules of usage become more or less apparent with exploration and logic.

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    • kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yep. What’s considered intuitive UI changes depending on what you’re used to.

      It’s why Google fought so hard to put Chromebooks in American classrooms.

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