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Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee.

If anyone needs it: https://jellyfin.org/

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[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I’ve never used jellyfin, but do they also host proxy servers? AFAIK plex does and its costing them money, hence the need for paywalling this. You can still use tailscale and reverse proxy to allow remote streaming

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Jellyfin does not host anything. With this change free Plex users behind a reverse proxy (or VPN) and Jellyfin users behind a reverse proxy (or VPN) work the same for remote access.

The only difference is that Plex no longer provides expensive services for free, while Jellyfin never provided them.

[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

This is my understanding and I’m surprised with the negative reaction. I think jellyfin is the better alternative being FOSS but this is not the reason.

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[–] sirico@feddit.uk 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The only reason I went with plex was easy remote access. Now with the state on reverse proxies and tailscale tunnels we happily ditched it.

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[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I never shared my server anyway, but a lot of the other design decisions they've made over the last couple years drove me to Jellyfin. My issue though is I cannot figure out how to set it up properly like I had Plex setup with genres, sort by added to server, lists, etc. I can't tell if I'm missing something obvious, or Jellyfin just lacks those features and I need to get a plugin or something. Anyway, sorry for the rant. Just hoping someone has experienced similar and might point me in the right direction.

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[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 8 points 1 week ago

Longterm MythTv user here, watching the discussions

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[–] 2FortGaming@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Any recommendations for Linux distros for a Jellyfin server?

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 12 points 1 week ago

Debian and Ubuntu have the most docs and guides If you know what you're doing nixos or ucore would be pretty unbreakable Paid for product I love Unraid

Trash guides is pretty good for getting started https://trash-guides.info/

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[–] sixty@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

Welcome to JF

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