Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week
arstechnica.com
Roku users will be hit first.

Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee.

If anyone needs it: https://jellyfin.org/

  • puppinstuff@lemmy.caEnglish
    21·
    1 month ago

    Jellyfin users, how is the transcoding situation? I have a mix of AV1 and H265 and I need to get smooth playback to my living room Apple TV for families’ sake.

      • WhyAUsername_1@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        1 month ago

        Infuse is not free. I love it and use it on my Apple Devices, but just wanted to have this as an FYI.

        • commanderschlepper@lemmy.zipEnglish
          11·
          1 month ago

          I’m moving to jellyfin because of my customzation obsession after using Plex for YEARS (bought lifetime as a kid in college), but I’m still going to donate to the Jellyfin team if I love the software they made. I’m so new to self hosting and it’s awesome how much free stuff is out there, but how do they maintain it for free?

          Is the argument that we shouldn’t have to pay money to use software or that Plex / software is changing things after taking money? This is the one area that confuses me the most. Free as a selling point but like, are we just not supposed to send money or am I dumb for doing so?

          • WhyAUsername_1@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 month ago

            Not really. The argument is not that everything should be free. I think, I was trying to make a point that Infuse is a third party application that is not free to use (unlike jellyfin).

    • Drun@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      1 month ago

      If you’re ok with Plex, then you’ll be ok with Jellyfin

      And we also have metadata manager, so you don’t have to rename your TV show files every time!

    • Domi@lemmy.secnd.meEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      I can’t speak for client capabilities on Apple devices, but what’s your server hardware? CPU or GPU transcoding?

      I have an AMD GPU in my server and have no issues transcoding AV1 and H265 for my lesser capable clients.

      You can also setup Jellyfin in parallel to Plex and give it a whirl.

      • TeddE@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        You can also setup Jellyfin in parallel to Plex and give it a whirl.

        Usually. When Plex leaked that they were selling user data, I was running Plex server on an Nvidia Shield, a unique build of Plex that ran as a core service of the Android device. There ain’t no Jellyfin analogue of that monstrosity.

      • puppinstuff@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        I have my library serving from an old work M1 Max MacBook because it has a lot of GPU oomph. GPU transcoding is available when needed.

    • Mobile@leminal.spaceEnglish
      11·
      1 month ago

      Running Jellyfin off of a Dell Optiplex 3060 and encoding all of my media in AV1. I’m able to stream my movies just fine via the Apple TV.