You just use a VPN
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fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoAlso doesn’t jellyfin not support remote streaming?
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
ItsNotImportant24@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Jellyfin does support remote streaming and it doesnt have to be through the web ui.
Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
It absolutely does but you have to do it yourself, they dont accept any liability for doing that and nor should they, so if you dont know how to do it with at least the minimal level of safety and security and accept that risk yourself then you really shouldn’t try. Ideally you would only do it via a private VPN to trusted users.
Plex has some features built in to make just opening the port reasonably safe, though I’d still recommend against that. They also have a reasonably secure account verification system, and the software itself has proven to be somewhat safe.
Jellyfin has very little security built in and is not intended to be public facing, it also has the double edged sword of being open source, so you could read through all the code and pick it apart for flaws and exploits if you wanted to and we all just trust that when exploits or flaws are found they are reported properly.
JF is great but you are on your own if you want to make it available via WAN.
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
You just need to setup a reverse proxy. My Jellyfin instance has been accessed from all over the world
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
It’s a nonsensical statement. Jellyfin is accessed through a website. You’re responsible for routing to it.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It’s a very sensical statement. I’m not exposing a whole ass website on my own network just for remote viewing. With plex you don’t need to do that.
black0ut@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
You don’t need to do that with jellyfin either. It includes the website for convenience, but you can just disable it or completely remove it and have just the server.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
How do you communicate with the server outside of your network? You’d still need to expose those ports directly to the internet right? (excluding VPNs/reverse proxy etc)
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Yes you do. It just does it for you including handling SSL.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Inside the network you do, but not for remote access outside the network.
victorz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I access it via the app on my LG TV with WebOS, so not technically a website but yeah, over the network via an API at least 👍