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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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[–] 20 points 11 months ago (15 children)

Jellyfin users, how is the transcoding situation? I have a mix of AV1 and H265 and I need to get smooth playback to my living room Apple TV for families’ sake.

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

    All dependent on the hardware you run the server on. Give it a good GPU and you're off to the races

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

    Just as long as you’re fine with your media server absolutely eating power all the time

    Stop encoding in av1 and get a low power older intel chip around 10th gen or so with quick sync. Unless you have like 5+ users watching 4k media at the same time this will handle transcoding absolutely fine while using far less power than a dedicated gpu

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

    I don't encode in AV1, I use HEVC. But while your argument is not unreasonable, it misses the component of file size and amount of disk space required.

    HEVC (x265) takes half the space of x264. While it does require a more modern GPU, it can be run on lower powered Intel CPUs with an integrated GPU just fine, so long as the CPU is new enough. Though it can only handle 2-3 streams on a CPU like the Intel chips in a ZimaBoard. So you need to choose wisely.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Person you responded to said av1, I didn’t mean to imply you did. HEVC is good balance and quicksync will handle it as you’ve said. 10th gen stuff will handle 4-5 at the expense of more power (but less than like a typical gpu build).

    Last statement you made is critical - usage dictates build

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

    Infuse player with jellyfin or direct nfs/samba if in same network

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Infuse is not free. I love it and use it on my Apple Devices, but just wanted to have this as an FYI.

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

    I'm moving to jellyfin because of my customzation obsession after using Plex for YEARS (bought lifetime as a kid in college), but I'm still going to donate to the Jellyfin team if I love the software they made. I'm so new to self hosting and it's awesome how much free stuff is out there, but how do they maintain it for free?

    Is the argument that we shouldn't have to pay money to use software or that Plex / software is changing things after taking money? This is the one area that confuses me the most. Free as a selling point but like, are we just not supposed to send money or am I dumb for doing so?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I can't speak for client capabilities on Apple devices, but what's your server hardware? CPU or GPU transcoding?

    I have an AMD GPU in my server and have no issues transcoding AV1 and H265 for my lesser capable clients.

    You can also setup Jellyfin in parallel to Plex and give it a whirl.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    You can also setup Jellyfin in parallel to Plex and give it a whirl.

    Usually. When Plex leaked that they were selling user data, I was running Plex server on an Nvidia Shield, a unique build of Plex that ran as a core service of the Android device. There ain't no Jellyfin analogue of that monstrosity.

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