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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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[–] 15 points 8 hours ago (10 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] 10 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 7 points 6 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 8 hours ago (3 children)

    Does TailScale make this easier or nah?

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  • [–] 4 points 7 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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  • [–] 3 points 4 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 8 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 6 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 2 hours 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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