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Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April (www.plex.tv)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ahoy mateys, it's time to setup Jellyfin if you prefer not to pay for the privilege of self-hosting your own content.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27204525

We are also changing how remote playback works for streaming personal media (that is, playback when not on the same local network as the server). The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature. This—alongside the new Plex Pass pricing—will help provide those resources. This change will apply to the future release of our new Plex experience for mobile and other platforms.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I guess the whole idea of this move is to force self-hosters to pay for a Plex pass. But it's a funny demographic to try to strongarm into a subscription. Most tech savvy self-hosters won't think twice about spinning up a Jellyfin instance instead, especially given that it's FOSS. And for those folks with a lifetime Plex pass this makes no difference.,

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah but anyone who is seriously using Plex already paid for one so I don't get the outrage

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Dito. The price increase for lifetime is hard and surely made so to push people into the recurring instead. But as a Plex Pass holder this won't drive me to Jellyfin

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You should however give jellyfin a shot as it has a bunch of cool features and is way more extensible than Plex.

Plex is still more polished but ive found there are a bunch of plugins for jellyfin that are really cool

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I have a Jellyfin instance running in parallel to check out its progress, but its just not there yet for me.

What do you mean with extensible? The plugin 'shop'?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

https://github.com/awesome-jellyfin/awesome-jellyfin

I really like the intro detector edl creator, tube archivist metadata provider, subtitle extract, and playback reporting plugins

Also you can customize the CSS for your server that extends to all clients using the jf webapp. Plex will never have that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Lol, that Jellyfin needs a 3rd party plugin for intro detection says a lot about the maturity of the project. Also, there are other Frontends for plex

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Self hosters do it to absorb the burden and avoid playing subscriptions. I don't pay for Netflix because I don't want to have the monthly fee (among other things), I host Plex myself and deal with all the server and library maintenance. If I have to pay a subscription to self host it's a step backwards lol.

I bought the lifetime back in 2013 so I have no complaints, but the month to month is a rip off.