I moved to Jellyfin a while back and I've really enjoyed it. Maybe not better, but on par with Plex in most respects.

The only reason I'm still using plex is the smart TV I have doesn't support Jellyfin.

Time to set up a Linux stream box that does support it (and whatever else I want).

It's a US-American company, of course it will turn to crap. Enshittification is everywhere.

Why not run both? It's what I do. Then if there's an issue with Plex you can use Jellyfin. Running both has helped friends who have an issue with Plex as well, and not needing to rely on their auth has been nice when they've had issues with it

if it turns to crap

Already happened years ago!

I just don't understand why they don't stop offering it altogether. This price hike shows they can't really afford to offer it at all. Just stop. It's okay. You don't have to keep providing this service tier to new users.

It's to push people to buy "before it goes up."

After the date then they can heavily discount it "for a limited time."

What about Emby? Or Kodi? Or DNLA streams?

There is a certain kind of MBA business idiot that thinks that the key to increased revenue is increased pricing. They look at something like Netflix raising prices and keeping enough users around to make more money than they did before l, and they think that will work for them. Not realising that whenever a company raises its prices it forces their customers to do a cost benefit analysis, so you better be damn sure you're offering a compelling product, preferably with nothing in the way of competition.

Playing the Plex premium or whatever it's called is neither particularly beneficial nor without competition. Jellyfin exists.

That's called biting off your nose to spite your face.

They host relay servers.

Its how they get around networking shenaigins.

You stream media to them, and then it gets passed to you back wherever you are.

Premium allows you to share with friends.

Real debrid is currently complying with a legal crackdown and is applying a filter that prevents access to their cached torrents if the title includes a bunch of different common piracy phrases, such as Web, WebDL, the names of common trackers, etc.

Might eventually ease up, might not. Worth it to ride it out for a bit and see what happens if you're already subbed as some results still play, but for anyone new looking into stremio/kodi/jellyfin you should probably consider something like an easynews + torbox combo

For the moment... Better go with all-debrid instead. And easynews. Plenty of combi deals with a VPN (privadovpn, with proxy support)

I see real-debrid recommended a lot, but shouldn't Torrent-based Stremio setup (opposed tothan a usenet/debrid setup) be better and with more content?

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Being upset with Plex because of what they're doing with their prices is totally a legit gripe. Suggesting Plex is shitty is silly. It works great, it's simple for boneheads like me, and if you paid $70 or whatever a decade or so ago, it's been a phenomenal deal. I'm using it right now, I use it on a weekly basis at the very least, and it's super art it and forget. I have a media library on my PC, when I add to it I just right click the taskbar icon and "update libraries," and that's it. It requires next to no fiddling, it runs perfectly, it finds subtitles automatically, it does the whole metadata thing automatically. It's great, I have zero complaints.

But yeah, $700 or whatever is crazy talk. But $70 was awesome.

Paying for plex pass gets you hardware transcoding (GPU), and access to Plexamp if you use it for music. Also the ability to use it remotely outside your network I think (dunno, I don't use that feature) It's good stuff, but nowhere near worth what they're charging. I paid $80 for my lifetime Plex pass some years back.

Honestly, even without the $750 pricing, they've been consistently raising it for years now, presumably to encourage monthly subscriptions. I don't trust them, and it's falling into the category of "you'll own nothing and be happy." The other day I even read something about a user losing access to their Plex because Plex themselves didn't renew their certificate and they had to reach out to support to sort it out. That's... just completely fucked up. I hate that it requires an online account to access your local content. They did that years ago, and it's led to me wanting to use it less and less.

I have a Jellyfin server as backup, and have already moved away from Plexamp to use Lyrion and Navidrome instead for music.

The only reason I still use Plex at all is because I watch a lot of foreign content and Swiftfin hasn't yet updated to use Apple TV's accessibility settings for captions (Plex lets you override subtitles with the Apple TV caption settings for readability and consistency). Though I saw the Jellyfin team merged the change the other day, so I expect a fix for that to come with the next major update. If that works out, I'll be deleting Plex from my Proxmox server finally.