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Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April (www.plex.tv)
submitted 1 year ago by [M] to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Ahoy mateys, it's time to setup Jellyfin if you prefer not to pay for the privilege of self-hosting your own content.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27204525

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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[–] 29 points 1 year ago (31 children)

Still don’t get why people use Plex over Jellyfin

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

    In my own house, or just myself. Jellyfin is fine. I haven't spent as much time on it though compared to Plex.

    Plex has its own user auth, I don't need to manage that. My friends and family don't have to hit me up for password resets.

    It has apps on pretty much every device.

    Users can just log in. They don't need to know what server to type in.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    Yer it's clear people who go on about not understanding either have small circles of users, or don't actually support people...

    You aren't getting Pop and Nan to understand how to troubleshoot or setup Jellyfin access on their old TV compared to just throwing in a Chromecast or fire stick and having Plex auto logon with an account you setup for them if the couldn't. Makes life a ton easier, even at the cost of other liberties.

    They just want to watch Zulu or Are you being Served again, nothing more.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Just gonna drop this link here for anyone who's interested in a 3rd party Jellyfin user management application. This fixes the issues related to inviting users and allowing them to reset their own passwords. Would obviously prefer all of this built into jellyfin, but solutions do exist for those determined enough.

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

    I am a lifetime Plex Pass User... I am not affected by their BS... Yet (watch together is going though).

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    Because some of us bought the lifetime Plex Pass for cheap many years ago and it's what our family is used to. Plex also passes the "wife test", and my kids use Plexamp on their phones for music.

    Not gonna stop me from ditching Plex in the not-too-distant future though, once I figure out Jellyfin and another local music streaming app that doesn't have an interface stuck in 1997.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Because comparitively, jellyfin sucks.

    Once they reach some semblance of feature parity, then you can in good faith ask this question.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Jellyfin does everything it needs to. Movies, tv, metadata, music. What else?

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

    that is the most basic list of features… if something implemented only that list id consider it an alpha

    the thing im waiting on to switch is skip buttons on intro/outro/etc across all platforms i care about

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It has that.

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

    it does not have that on apple tv, thus it does not have that on all platforms that i care about - in fact, that’s the main, if not only platform that i really care about

    heck, it doesn’t have skip buttons on any platform: it places chapter markers, which is a great implementation!… if they also added metadata that showed a button overlay for “special” chapters like this as well updated and checked again - they do add buttons now, but still not on tvos

    all of this is fine, and i’m sure they’ll get there but it’s disingenuous to say that everything is at feature parity with plex

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    It's a lot easier to setup and get non-techy family to join. Setting up Jellyfin is easy until you want access outside your LAN. Setting up TLS or a VPN is a hassle I don't want unless there is no other option. Plex has features I (and my family) use that jellyfin doesn't support by default yet. Last I checked syncing of files for offline viewing in the official app wasn't very good yet. Plex has a bunch of ad supported live streams baked in that aren't too bad. There is a "How It's Made" channel, a Mythbusters channel, and Top Gear channel. PlexAmp isn't perfect, but it's better than any of the Jellyfin options I've seen.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I will make the switch once they revoke my lifetime pass, but in the meantime I'm really hoping that Jellyfin gets a face lift. I've tested Jellyfin a good bit and it mostly has feature parity for everything I care about, but it's UI is objectively uglier than Plex's

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

    because it’s actually usable?

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

    I didn’t realize my setup wasn’t usable. What does plex offer that makes the usability so much better? I considered plex for my newish setup but if anything, all the privacy controversies and charging for features was more unusable to me than anything I’ve noticed with Jellyfin

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Client Support is way better, Hardware transcoding is more reliable and easier to set up (as in you don't have to in Plex), UI/UX is better (if you can live with removing Plex' stuff once from your homescreen), that also means the settings, which I find convoluted in Jellyfin. The media matching is way worse and I won't go through thousands of folder to rename them just because Jellyfin only accepts one singular way to name things

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    since the last time I checked (could be they've made progress since then):

    • subtitle auto sync
    • smart collections
    • way better support for downloads, particularly transcoded ones
    • skip intro and credits
    • better UI (this one is subjective but I did find annoying little bugs often)
    • I've found that it takes way longer to update & scan larger libraries
    • overall disparity between clients on different platforms (in my case, webos, firetv and iOS).

    in short it's a lot of tiny little things that make my overall experience just annoying.

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

    It syncs all movie covers and metadata automatically. When I used jellyfin last, this was a struggle.

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

    For me?

    • Remote Play (I've never been able to get it to consistently work on every device with Jellyfin)
    • PlexAmp is awesome
    • LiveTV
    • IPTV
    • Way better clients
    • Numerous small little issues.
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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There's FinAmp for jellyfin. There's also support for LiveTV and I wouldn't be surprised if there was at least a plugin for IPTV.

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

    LiveTV refers to a PlutoTV like service for Plex. There are a lot of amazing channels, but the big gain for me is having broadcast news networks.

    FinAmp really isnt up to PlexAmp yet. PlexAmps "guestdj" mode is really awesome and it still doesn't have a Carplay App which kills it right there for me.

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