We are also changing how remote playback works for streaming personal media (that is, playback when not on the same local network as the server). The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature. This—alongside the new Plex Pass pricing—will help provide those resources. This change will apply to the future release of our new Plex experience for mobile and other platforms.

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    Alright, so I have had Jellyfin installed for years now, but my primary issue is that most devices myself or my users use lack official, readily-available clients. For example, the Samsung TV app is a developer mode install. Last I looked, nobody has put a build into the store.

    I really want to use Jellyfin, but I feel like my users simply can't. I'm interested in others' experiences here that could help.

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  • [–] 84 points 1 year ago (21 children)

    I mean, except for Tizen OS isn't most available? You can find the client for Android, Android TV, Windows, Linux (Flatpak), macos, apple ios, and more.
    https://jellyfin.org/downloads/clients/

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I give all my friends the choice between Plex and jellyfin (I run both containers side by side pointed to the same media folders) and they all invariably choose Plex. I think it has a lot to do with the jellyfin UI, and I think an overhaul like jellyfin-vue or something that looks like findroid needs to happen in order for jellyfin to really appeal to regular people.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Don’t ever connect a “smart” tv to the internet. It’s only going to become shit and steal your data.

    Raspberry Pi, old pc or any kind of other external player will always be better for connectivity and control.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    I agree, but having looked down this road, finding a quality external player that users will understand and is inexpensive is ... not easy.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    While I agree with you 100% and every tv in my home is under this mantra I get where the parent comment is coming from. Family members and friends visiting have asked about access to my Jellyfin library and they aren’t necessarily keen on buying additional hardware, aren’t willing to educate themselves on setting up options that would be objectively better for connectivity, privacy, control, etc.

    They just want an app in their TVs app store. It’s convenient and easy. I disagree with them but I don’t blame them. It’s human nature to go for the option that results in expending the least amount of effort. But then they don’t get my sweet Jellyfin library. If you cant run the client or kodi then I can’t help you, sorry.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (9 children)

    I had the same experience with my parents. They have a Samsung TV and the Jellyfin experience was awful.

    I ended up getting them a little N100 mini pc and installed Bazzite and the Jellyfin app from Flathub. You can configure it so it knows it’s on a TV, and responds to keyboard controls. I got them a remote from a company called Pepper Jobs that gives keyboard input and now they have a great experience with it. Even my mom, who’s a big technophobe, loves it.

    My dad also has an LG TV in his workshop that doesn’t have a working Jellyfin app (cause it’s ten years old), and he uses the Jellyfin app for his Xbox on that one.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I can speak from my experience with an Apple TV, the application "Infuse" works amazing with a jellyfin server. Though the application is essentially $1 month subscription, but works across all your apple devices, if you have any. I think it's worth it.

    Additionally, the official app for Android TV worked pretty well when I last tried it on an Nvidia Shield

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I use Jellyfin client on my new Samsung TV via a Google TV dongle (ONN tv, $25 at Walmart). Seems to work well.

    My only complaint is the stream volume has been very low after a recent update. Downsampling helps but seems like it shouldn' t be necessary.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I've been testing out jellyfin for the last couple months but it doesn't really fill the void of this specific feature that's being locked behind a pay wall. If anyone has good recommendations for securely and reliably hosting jellyfin behind SSL and auth with email password resets where I don't have to worry about it as much as Plex.

    I use jellyfin locally but for a handful of remote clients I have I may well block off their access they're not going to be able to figure out my hand spun services and wall of text.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Before now I was on the sunk cost fallacy of not wanting to teach my extended family how to use Jellyfin instead of plex but after this I'm already mid-way through setting up a Jellyfin docker container on my server and I only found out an hour ago

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