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Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
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Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee.

If anyone needs it: https://jellyfin.org/

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[–] 46 points 11 months ago (16 children)

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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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    …reverse proxy…

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

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (5 children)

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

    But Jellyfin doesn't have that reputation.

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago* (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 11 months 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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  • [–] 2 points 11 months 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.

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