▲ 312 ▼ People who are staying on Plex, have you tried Jellyfin? What about it do you not prefer? (real question) (discuss.online) submitted 5 months ago by kiol@discuss.online to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world 412 comments fedilink hide all child comments Honest question, because I know multiple people who are not looking to jump ship since they already have the Plex Pass.
[–] b34k@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago (4 children) Don’t you have to open a port for Plex remote access? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] kiol@discuss.online [S] 3 points 5 months ago I think the difference is Plex offers a web address you can use for logging into Plex and for sharing it with others. So, you get a friendly admin interface with oauth for logging in from other popular services as the Plex user getting setup. permalink fedilink source parent [–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago (2 children) You do not but you'll be severely bandwidth limited. It'll go through their servers if a port can't be opened. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] b34k@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago Oh I forgot about that option permalink fedilink source parent [–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 1 point 5 months ago That sounds like you do have to open one then? Otherwise you are "severely bandwidth limited" and who wants that? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kiol@discuss.online [S] 3 points 5 months ago I think the difference is Plex offers a web address you can use for logging into Plex and for sharing it with others. So, you get a friendly admin interface with oauth for logging in from other popular services as the Plex user getting setup. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago (2 children) You do not but you'll be severely bandwidth limited. It'll go through their servers if a port can't be opened. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] b34k@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago Oh I forgot about that option permalink fedilink source parent [–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 1 point 5 months ago That sounds like you do have to open one then? Otherwise you are "severely bandwidth limited" and who wants that? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] b34k@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago Oh I forgot about that option permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 1 point 5 months ago That sounds like you do have to open one then? Otherwise you are "severely bandwidth limited" and who wants that? permalink fedilink source parent