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Looking to offload Plex from my gaming PC (lemmy.world)
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I am looking to basically just transition to a small time, forever on, server to support my growing Plex footprint. I don't need anything top of the line, and I've already crimped my lines to the room.

What's the most cost effective way to go about this? Figured i would come to the pros.

Thanks!

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[–] [S] 5 points 7 hours ago (11 children)

See, I hadn't even heard that. Is JF on anything like Apple TV (like Plex) or would i have to figure out the streaming part?

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  • [–] 14 points 7 hours ago (9 children)

    It's pretty much everywhere Plex is. The main issue is that it's trickier to set up for sharing outside your LAN.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

    I would never be doing that, so I'm sold on it then. It's basically just my backup movie/TV hub for my LAN.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 hours ago

    Definitely suggested then, you're also going to get drastically more features. If you remember a time when Plex plugins were available - its that. And more flexible.

    Any intel-based chipset past 6th gen or so will be ok, 7+ recommended, 10th+ for AV1. If you aren't doing any transcoding, just about anything will work include a pi.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

    Does TailScale make this easier or nah?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    From my limited testing of tailscale a while back, I don't see any reason it wouldn't work. Saw no reason to switch from my wireguard setup.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago

    Can confirm it works. I have jf over tailscale.

    I use my own domain but could be done using tailscale urls if you dont want to deal with certificates, split horizon dns, etc.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

    The Jellyfin clients for Apple TV are not very good in my opinion and use case. Thankfully there are a lot more than there used to be 6 months ago. But, at least for me, they are lacking in features. I keep trying to them every so often hoping they have improved so I can finally make thr switch.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago (1 child)

    On the Apple tv just use infuse. Sure it sucks paying for an app, but it works.

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  • [–] 1 point 57 minutes ago

    Glad it works for you, but it is missing live tv, which is the biggest thing all the Jellyfin apps either do poorly or don't do at all. I went through all 19 ish apps I could find a few weeks ago and none of them checked off all my boxes. But I will keep looking and hoping.

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