CmdrShepard42

This thread is comparing the ease of setup between Plex and Jellyfin and having to purchase your own domain and set a bunch of stuff up on your own definitely doesn’t make for an easier install. You might be right about people’s ability to type in a URL, but this definitely illustrates the added difficulty in setting up Jellyfin.

There are a lot of people here who simply cannot be bothered to figure out remote access

I think being apprehensive is natural when you’re entirely left on your own for security, knowing that you could leave yourself vulnerable if you do it incorrectly. Add to this the fact that half the info you’ll find on the process is people claiming you just need to open some ports, which you know to be wrong, and it’s easy to see why it’s hard to trust any advice you find.

Or Lemmy

How exactly are you aquiring a folder full of media without technical know how in the first place? (Genuine question?)

Because there are excellent setup guides out there that walk you through the process and allow you to set all this up without knowing anything about the individual steps you’re taking.

It’s not that expensive. You can buy a lifetime pass for like $70 when it goes on sale. That’s like half the price I pay to Comcast each month for my internet.

It was always a thing except with Android and iOS which had a separate one-time fee attached to enable remote playback.

The Plex Relay is enabled by default and is used anytime people can’t directly connect to your server like if your port forwarding is screwed up.

No it’s not the same as with Plex because they have their own security solution and authentication servers. With Jellyfin that’s completely on you to figure out and doing it wrong (exposing open ports to the open internet) can have terrible consequences.

I’m no expert but I was never able to connect to Plex if the host was running a VPN which caused me a ton of issues until I figured out split tunneling.

“Very easy” assuming you aren’t trying to share with non-technical people or your elderly parents.

Not necessarily a VPN but you’re 100% on your own for security. When i used to run Emby, I had a white-list IPs but this doesn’t work great since most ISPs rotate IPs over time and if you’re on wireless it could change all the time.

Only if you were remote streaming on Android or iOS or you’d need to pay a one-time fee to bypass the restriction.

If you as the server owner have a Plex Pass, everyone can stream from your server without paying. This removes the payment required for Android and iOS too.

No worries, it is just my internal frustration with Nvidia coming out in my comment. It could be a good device if it weren’t abandoned by them years ago while that fact seems to be lost in their current pricing. There isn’t really anything comparable on the market, but I don’t think it’s worth the price in it’s current form.

As many as your hard drives or upload bandwidth can handle since they would be playing directly and not transcoding.

As many as most GPUs without all the extra cost and power draw. Nvidia sets a transcode limit of 2 sessions unless you disable it. You really shouldn’t ever be transcoding 4k content. Most people will duplicate 1080p and 4k content and not share the 4k library for remote streaming/external users to avoid transcoding, and 1080p transcodes are no sweat. Furthermore, the goal should be to avoid transcoding wherever possible, so it’s unlikely that you’d have multiple people doing intensive transcoding simultaneously if you follow the above advice. You’ll want everyone to direct play as much as possible.

Technical friends are the best friends.

I don’t know how Kodi still goes on for this long. I messed around with it over a decade ago and had all the same issues back then.

And it runs Google services, and it costs a fortune, and it hasn’t seen a refresh in 6 years.

If they have a 5th gen or newer Intel CPU, Quicksync will work excellently for transcoding