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

• fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Jellyfin is the solution if you have a media file on your computer and you want to stream it to your TV in a different room and Bare Bones works fine. It serves my use cases for a lot of things pretty well, but for hardcore self-hosted streaming Plex still has more features and polish

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• StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Might want to take another look at Jellyfin. My experience has been that as long as the video file s are at least somewhat reasonably named and organized, Jellyfin has no problems identifying a file and looking up its metadata.

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• _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I dunno what you were doing wrong, but Jellyfin is a strong alternative to Plex that has feature parity. The only reason to use Plex over Jellyfin is if you want the streaming channels Plex has. Especially since many of the features Plex has are locked behind a paywall, whereas on Jellyfin they are free.

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  • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I use consoles because I have kids. Ps5 doesn’t have jellyfin but does have plex in its store.

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    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This is a big part of the problem. You can use Plex on PlayStation, xbox, Roku, apple tv, iPhone, android, etc…

      The apps are ubiquitous, the coverage is complete. In just about any situation, Plex is a workable option.

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What about remote streaming, to other users…?

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    • _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      what about it? anyone who hosts a Jellyfin server probably already has a reverse proxy set up. if not, then that is another 2min setup required, if you don’t know what you’re doing.

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      • ccunning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I think the situation under discussion is converting plex users to jellyfin though. Most plex users won’t have a reverse proxy setup because it’s not needed.

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• Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Looks fine to me, I replaced plex like 3-4 months ago

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• webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There are custom themes out there that change the interface.

  Right click -> identify-> Title name, has yet to fail me.

  Its been a long time since i used plex so I can’t say how much “easier” its over there but compared to the days before streaming this little upfront work takes less time then going to a physical store to rent.

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• Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You need to properly name your media with a proper scheme (include tmdbid/imdbid).

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