I was waiting for this story after I saw that on my inbox.
Waiting until “plex pro” and they slowly sunset features on the original plex lifetime pass.
wdym “borderline”
Bruh just use jellyfin. Using it for over 2 years w/o a hiccup.
Do you host it locally or in the cloud? Can you use it while traveling? /gen
Host locally and access it from outside the home via Netbird. Though not sure what gen means
/gen means genuine, it’s a tone indicator. Another one you might see is /s for sarcastic or /j for joking
What are we doing here?
idk ask the internet, I’m just trying to be helpful
It’s just strange to me that communication is breaking down so much that I need to basically explain the joke. Soon I’ll be saying “please clap.”
To be fair Poe’s law is a pretty common problem in internet communication. Obviously ambiguity of intent is pretty easily avoided with good writing but it’s also convenient for a lot of people to be able to dodge that with a few relatively standardized characters. Although I can agree in the sense that it often feels like a lazy fix for otherwise bad jokes or dialogue, too often I see something in the vein of “WE NEED TO BLOW UP ORPHANAGES!!! /j” and because there’s a tone indicator in there it somehow manages to write off the lack of actual quality.
not the commenter your responding but yes with proper setup travel is no issue.
I’ve never tried to host in the cloud so I have no input on that, but locally + tailscale is very doable and pretty dead simple to setup and manage.
I would highly recommend the linuxserver.io docker image. with a modern cpu and the docker image, transcoding won’t be too much of an issue with most titles and only one or two users. my server has media only in hevc, so some clients need transcoding. my 3700k is perfectly fine with it.
if you want to expose it to a domain you gotta be a little more careful, reverse proxy + an external auth provider like authentik at minimum is what I would suggest. fail2ban and anubis are also great ideas.
I have it on my n100 mini pc server in docker. I expose it to the open internet through a reverse tunnel (Pangolin) hosted on a VPS in my city. It is secured by crowdsec and geoblock whitelist mode. I can access it from anywhere in my country. If travelling abroad I will just whitelist that country. Me and my gf do watch parties on it in 4k while simultaneously my brother and sis in law watch something on it on their TV. Bandwidth is not a problem at all. The only hiccup that might come is while transcoding multiple streams. You need capable hardware for it. It hasn’t impacted me yet.
What about Emby? Or Kodi? Or DNLA streams?
Haven’t tried them. I have tested Kodi with Jellyfin Integration, which works well, as I am planning to use some old PC as an HTPC with Kodi sometime later.
Fym “borderline”??
This is why I have Jellyfin.
This is one of those situations where they’ll jack the fee up. Wait for everyone to stop pissing themselves. Then become heroes for listening and lowering it to the halfway point between the old few and the new one.
It’s to push people to buy “before it goes up.”
After the date then they can heavily discount it “for a limited time.”
LOL. As if I would pay these clowns for access to booty that I’ve captured from the high seas.
Jellyfin is what to use.
Sounds like they don’t want to sell lifetime memberships.
Bye Felicia
Real debrid is currently complying with a legal crackdown and is applying a filter that prevents access to their cached torrents if the title includes a bunch of different common piracy phrases, such as Web, WebDL, the names of common trackers, etc.
Might eventually ease up, might not. Worth it to ride it out for a bit and see what happens if you’re already subbed as some results still play, but for anyone new looking into stremio/kodi/jellyfin you should probably consider something like an easynews + torbox combo
For the moment… Better go with all-debrid instead. And easynews. Plenty of combi deals with a VPN (privadovpn, with proxy support)
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Whats the benefit? I had an annual pass in like 2015 and got rid of it cuz the ps4 app was garbage. Fast forward to 2020 and I set a free one up cuz pandemic… I honestly don’t know why I paid in the first place.
Being upset with Plex because of what they’re doing with their prices is totally a legit gripe. Suggesting Plex is shitty is silly. It works great, it’s simple for boneheads like me, and if you paid $70 or whatever a decade or so ago, it’s been a phenomenal deal. I’m using it right now, I use it on a weekly basis at the very least, and it’s super art it and forget. I have a media library on my PC, when I add to it I just right click the taskbar icon and “update libraries,” and that’s it. It requires next to no fiddling, it runs perfectly, it finds subtitles automatically, it does the whole metadata thing automatically. It’s great, I have zero complaints.
But yeah, $700 or whatever is crazy talk. But $70 was awesome.
But Jellyfin. Jellyfin. Did you know about a Jellyfin‽ why aren’t you running Jellyfin like the rest of the herd‽ /s
I’m so tired of it being recommended blindly because people don’t have to pay for it when it’s much crappier than plex (if you have the lifetime subscription).
Suggesting Plex is shitty is silly.
I asked what the paid benefits were vs the free version. Everything you described is in the free version. Hence why I’m not sure why I ever paid in the first place. I don’t think I ever used any of the paid features.
I apologize, I didn’t understand that to be the meaning, maybe I gotta read better. I don’t have an answer. I can’t remember what prompted me to grab a lifetime pass. I have to assume there’s some benefit, and that it was obvious to me at the time.
Yea I still have a free server going and never hit a paywall.
Paying for plex pass gets you hardware transcoding (GPU), and access to Plexamp if you use it for music. Also the ability to use it remotely outside your network I think (dunno, I don’t use that feature) It’s good stuff, but nowhere near worth what they’re charging. I paid $80 for my lifetime Plex pass some years back.
Honestly, even without the $750 pricing, they’ve been consistently raising it for years now, presumably to encourage monthly subscriptions. I don’t trust them, and it’s falling into the category of “you’ll own nothing and be happy.” The other day I even read something about a user losing access to their Plex because Plex themselves didn’t renew their certificate and they had to reach out to support to sort it out. That’s… just completely fucked up. I hate that it requires an online account to access your local content. They did that years ago, and it’s led to me wanting to use it less and less.
I have a Jellyfin server as backup, and have already moved away from Plexamp to use Lyrion and Navidrome instead for music.
The only reason I still use Plex at all is because I watch a lot of foreign content and Swiftfin hasn’t yet updated to use Apple TV’s accessibility settings for captions (Plex lets you override subtitles with the Apple TV caption settings for readability and consistency). Though I saw the Jellyfin team merged the change the other day, so I expect a fix for that to come with the next major update. If that works out, I’ll be deleting Plex from my Proxmox server finally.
