LOS GATOS, CA—In an attempt to fend off growing competition from Paramount and Netflix, Plex CEO Keith Valory announced Monday that the streaming platform had submitted a $35 bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. “We believe the Harry Potter and DC universes will prove excellent additions to our slate of free-to-stream titles including Petticoat Junction and […]
Plex sucks. Couple of days ago they started to ask for $2 per month to access my files from my tv. I switched to jellyfin and everything works great. Sorry for the rant.
How many user profiles does it support?
IIRC it’s a charge to use their relay servers, which you only need if you don’t have a direct connection to your media server. Setting up a direct connection isn’t always easy or possible especially for non-technical users, and does come at some small expense to Plex, so it’s not that weird to be a paid feature. But if Jellyfin meets your needs that’s a good thing, it’s probably got a better shot at avoiding enshittification long term.
edit: I was not remembering correctly, even direct (remote) connections are paywalled. You’d need to use some kind of tunnel to make Plex think you’re connecting locally.
I think you’re wrong. I have my ports open and I can connect directly to my Plex instance, but if I’m connecting from another IP address Plex wants my money.
Yep, I just double checked and I think it’s all remote connections, not just relayed ones. You can probably get around this by setting up a wireguard tunnel or something to make Plex think you’re connecting locally, but it’s definitely going to be easier to just use Jellyfin if you haven’t already set that up
that implies you may have a misconfiguration? I am pretty sure local access is still free, no? its possible your TV is connecting through remote due to either rebind issue OR some other local subnet setup you have.
My PC and my TV are in the same local network and plex was not trying to change me until the last week. I don’t even have any subnets. Also I don’t want to troubleshoot this issue, Jellyfin just works for me and I like using the open source projects.
Unfortunately for me, my TV does not support Jellyfin. I’ll probably be getting a device for it that does though.
RaspberryPi4 is cheap and will play essentially any media.
Can explain how the fuck to use Jellyfin. I can’t get it to cast, unable to get it on the Roku app. All around it just doesn’t work.
How are you running it and on what hardware?
And old laptop with Linux Mint.
Did you install it from the repos, build from source, or run in docker?
Either docker or the repos is recommended
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/installation/linux#debian--ubuntu-and-derivatives
Once you’ve confirmed what method, can you access it on the laptop you’re running it on by going to https://127.0.0.1:8096/ ?
Once you confirm local access, we can take a look at your firewall rules to ensure port 8096 on that laptop is reachable by other devices on your network.
I mean it’s 2 fuckin dollars a month. If you’ve got a setup that can utilize plex you’re probably running at least $800 worth of hardware that costs more than $2 in electricity per month.
And
I used plex to run from subscriptions. People don’t always understand the gravity.