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Netflix kills casting from phones (www.theverge.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Casting support is still available on older Chromecast devices or TVs that support Google Cast natively, according to Netflix’s support page

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[–] 34 points 11 months ago (14 children)

Use Jellyfin. Fill your server with treasures procured from the high seas. Watch on any device. Sync play with far away friends or family.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (8 children)

    I tried jellyfin for about a month last year, but it lacked a lot of what I was used to in plex, so I returned to it. But lately plex is really going downhill... has jellyfin improved somewhat in this time frame?

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not sure what features you feel are lacking. And I haven't used Plex at all.

    For me, all I want is being able to connect to it from any device, and sync play.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    I’m not sure what features you feel are lacking

    As I said, it was about a year ago. I vaguely remember not liking the layout when displayed on my TV, sorting shows/episodes not working correctly, watched list not being properly updated... that and assorted little bugs that finally tired me and I went back to plex

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    What features? I have both and I vastly prefer Jellyfin. Plex is slow and the menus dont get right to the point.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Haven't tried JF in over a year, but last attempt was full of errors. I'll give it another shot.

    Only reason I'm still on Plex is I have a lifetime pass, and it's working. But it's sure inshitifying every day... Remote play with plex pass is super easy, and plex amp was promising but replaced it with navidrome and so much happier. I'm ready to ditch Plex if JF is better now, I'll install it next time I have time to mess with my setup.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I have had a lifetime pass for years since maybe 2014 or so? They added photo sync, that was awesome, then they took it away. That sucked.

    I simply run both at the same time on my server, they point to the same library. The compose file is stupid simple (as is plex's) so why not.

    Better is relative, but I like Jellyfin better. Plex's choices for my library layout suck. Jellyfin gets to the point, and fast.

    Either way, doesn't cost anything to run both, and set up is about 10 minutes if you already are using docker.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    That's it, the pain is coming back now. I didn't use docker last time I tried, I don't remember the issues I ran into, but I was running Plex on windows vm with the library on a nas share mounted locally through iscsi. Don't ask why, it was a good setup at the time.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Plex is slow and the menus dont get right to the point

    That is true. I also hate having to change each episode separatedly to change subtitle/audio track. Apropos, jellyfin didn't have subtiles download integrated on their menus, has that changed since last year? Not having that means manually downloading and syncronizing subtitles, and life's too short for that kind of drudgery

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    i have a locked-down android tv dongle from my isp so i really wish i could cast from my jellyfin server, but then i looked at the setup guide and instantly ran out of spoons.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Xumo I'm guessing? Look for another streaming device. Anything with 4gb ram should carry you a loooong way. I just looked up the cheap 4k stream devices at Walmart, they support Jellyfin as well. In the interest of storage space over quality, most of my vids are 1080p, and they rarely stutter with pure software decoding.

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