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

• kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You’re not wrong.

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      • kalpol@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The only real usability issue I’ve had is auto cataloging. It isnt right much of the time. But I don’t have any remote users that don’t have network access so that simplifies things a whole lot.

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      • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What it’s like in these threads:

        sora.chatgpt.com/…/s_6929fca431708191ad097a7679ac…

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• ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      …reverse proxy…

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

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      • Mondez@lemdro.id ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s because you had somone elses servers doing that part for you.

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• sj_zero ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That's been my experience too.

  Plex came with my nas, and we never used it because it it was really fiddly and wanted to show everything except my content.

  By contrast, my jellyfin is linked up with the jellyfin for android tv app on the big screen tv, and if nobody told you it wasn't a regular streaming service you'd probably never know because it's so straightforward. My wife is not techy at all -- she still daily drives her Android phone from 7 years ago because she doesn't want to change to her new one from 2 years ago -- but she can pick up the remote and play a movie at any time.

  I use it every night on my phone to play videos that help me get to sleep, and the app works well.
• kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Come on, I love libre software as much as the next Lemming, but the Plex TV and mobile app is leagues ahead in terms of usability over jellyfin.

  I still prefer jellyfin for many other reasons, but in terms of UX and UI for the average person it’s an easy win for Plex

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  • tehmics@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You must be having a wildly different experience than me then, because I don’t even understand how you can make that claim

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