fne8w2ah4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced
Twongo [she/her]it is proprietary software behind a paywall… need i say more?
Yeah, their survey is missing the “never used Plex because I saw this coming a mile away” option.
Yeah, it’s odd the survey assumes everyone has used Plex. When I was looking for an actual server to replace Kodi back in 2018, it was like Plex - nope, Emby - nope, Jellyfin - ah, we have a winner.
lemmy.lol has been having a lot of issues the last couple of weeks where it’s unusable slow and requests keep timing out. I tried posting this multiple times and kept getting errors, but it seems it actually was succeeding, so apologies for the duplicate posts. I might end up moving to a different instance.
owenfromcanadalaughs in Jellyfin
funkajunk 🇨🇦I want to like jellyfin, but it’s authentication sucks
ordnance_qf_17_pounderI’m still annoyed that I spent £100 on Plex a few years ago. It seemed like a good investment at the time but I ended up never using it.
That’s more on you than Plex, though, right? Like do you get mad at Walmart or Home Depot because you bought a tool you never use, or don’t use as frequently as you thought you would?
Not defending Plex, I’m just curious.
I didn’t say I was mad at Plex. I was implying that I was annoyed at my own decision to pay for it.
You can turn it around nowadays on something like Craigslist or FB marketplace. It will easily sell for 150 quid. Some of the plex shares will be happy to be it off you because their accounts get constantly nuked.
Alphane MoonThe writing was on the wall when they started getting American VC money.
American VC culture is anthenema to truly user focused products.
Korne127Except the sync / group watch feature is pretty broken which makes me sad
FoniThe way you switch between two servers you own is more than inconvenient; it’s what keeps Plex in my life.I wish things would change because everything else is better.
Taasz/WoofThats how I describe Jellyfin, it works fine, its just inconvenient to use.
I’d love Jellyfin if not for their incredibly infuriating seek behaviour. Why do I have to press play to start the video again?
In case this helps, for me when I use it on Android TV with said TV’s remote, the arrow buttons on the direction pad for anything require pressing play/OK button after. But if I use the fast forward buttons, it does seek and then just keeps playing.
For me I just want a fast forward button. They have something they call fast forward, but it seeks instead.
Agreed! I stayed with Plex for a long time because Jellyfin had a rough time with live TV (antenna) and I already had a PlexPass because of a sale a long time ago. Now Plex is only still running because I love Plexamp.
ORbituaryI struggled to find a decent plexamp replacement and ended up using symphonium, if you’re looking for any suggestions. Its been working out pretty well with jellyfin.
Does jellyfin have an easy way for remote streaming? I have a couple dozen people on my Plex server, most not very tech savvy, so setting up tailscale and running remote that way isn’t an option. I have a Plex pass so I haven’t been screwed by Plex yet, so I’m not rushing to get out, but I could see myself running both.
no, tailscale is still the easiest option.
Bummer… unfortunately, that’s a deal breaker for me to completely drop Plex. Maybe someday.
Tailscale. You don’t even need it on the client device, you can get a gl.inet travel router that’ll do the work.
I’m not going to all of my friends and families houses and swapping out their routers wtf
I swear every single Plex related thread has the same Jellyfin fanatics coming in. Same energy as “my MIL has trouble with her computer” “just install Linux bro!” comments.
Still better than the army of Plex fanboys that all claim to have dozens of senior citizens streaming from their Plex server.
AmbiguousPropsI don’t have dozens, but I have 3. Those three are close family members. Do you think people don’t invite their parents or inlaws to their Plex server?
Clearly people do, but I think they represent a vocal minority of Plex’s overall userbase. The expectation that a free project with no revenue stream should provide an ongoing service that’s going to cost them money and seems to be what Plex is using to squeeze its users always strikes me as disingenuous. There are ways to enable remote access with Jellyfin, but you have to do it yourself because nobody’s paying them to run those servers.
Could you explain then instead of just posting a snarky comment that contributes nothing to the conversation?
Can you fly out to my MIL every time her router breaks and fix it for her?
Editing your post like this instead of engaging in conversation is so childish, grow up
Tailscale is woefully impractical, as is setting up travel routers. You’re adding so much unnecessary complexity that has the chance to fail and frustrate them even more. Doubly so for anyone an appreciable distance from you (having tried this before, it’s just not worth it for me). And not everyone wants to buy hardware to setup a remote streaming platform for blue hairs, because that also adds to the administrative complexity of the setup.
But feel free to continue your childish tantrum about how people don’t understand why your genius ideas are really super great.
So I don’t get it, I have mine up with a domain without tsilscale… The clients are quite happy wherever. I don’t even see that much “crawling” traffic that goes to the domain, most just hit the server by ip and get a static 401 page that the “default” site is hard coded to give out.
At some point, somewhere on the internet, someone authoritatively claimed that tailscale is the one and only acceptable solution to getting your jellyfin server outside your LAN and it just kind of took root. nginx has worked perfectly fine for me.
I set mine up with HAProxy for TLS offloading and ACME for the server cert. Restrict your access to just your country/region by GeoIP and you are pretty good to go.
roofuskitYes-ish, it’s harder for you than the users. But you will have to secure a URL and they will have to remember that URL. Also there’s some security issues with some unsecured endpoints on Jellyfin. That said I have mine out there exposed to the net and am comfortable enough with it.