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Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. (www.plex.tv)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Unable to set up a working server for outside of the home network. Also, the UI is terrible and didn't organize things well.

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

Setting up remote access is the same for Plex and Jellyfin so I'm confused. All you need to do is to forward port 8096 or use a reverse proxy like nginx if you want a domain.

I have plex.domain.com and jellyfin.domain.com and it was the exact same process for both.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

None of that is needed if the server app for plex works as intended.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 minutes ago

You have to port forward Plex in some fashion for it to work properly. If you don't you are limited to 1 Mbps streams on their relay. That is lower bitrate than YouTube at 480p.

If your router has UPnP then the port fowarding is automatic on both Jellyfin and Plex. It's the exact same setup for both.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

i've been using http://playit.gg/ to set up a simple proxy that i can share with my friends! You just forward the port that jellyfin uses and share the link (and it works for all manner of other servers)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

When I tried that service recently I found that it’s incredibly slow. It’s like all the ISPs in the Philippines intentionally throttle it or something. In contrast to that, using Zerotier to connect instead gives me normal speeds.