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.
I love being able to post this yet again:
I have a lifetime Plex pass I got during a big sale like a decade ago, at 1/10 the price they are raising it to. I haven’t used it in about 6 months and never plan to even log into it again. Jellyfin 4 life!
I mean, I also have a whole bunch of windows keys from old MSDN accounts and stuff, but I am sure as shit not going to install Windows on my machines just because I can!
This is why I have Jellyfin.
Hey, remember when you bought a ‘copy’ of software? And it was yours to use for as long as you like? Subscriptions are the worst.
Bought it when it was a reasonable price but switching to jellyfin anyway. Fuck late stage capitalism.
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.
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.
wdym “borderline”
Bruh just use jellyfin. Using it for over 2 years w/o a hiccup.
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.
Do you host it locally or in the cloud? Can you use it while traveling? /gen
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.
Bye Felicia
Existing Lifetime Plex Pass memberships are unaffected by the upcoming price hike; if you already locked in your sub at a lower rate, you won’t have to pay any additional fees, and your service isn’t changing
For now.
It’d be mildly annoying to have to switch to Jellyfin, or some other option, but I have no qualms ditching Plex if it turns to crap. Don’t ever give into the sink cost fallacy.
The only reason I’m still using plex is the smart TV I have doesn’t support Jellyfin.
Time to set up a Linux stream box that does support it (and whatever else I want).
Roku has a jellyfin app. In case you didn’t want to setup up your own Linux stream box
I moved to Jellyfin a while back and I’ve really enjoyed it. Maybe not better, but on par with Plex in most respects.
That’s the thing: it doesn’t have to be better since it’s 100% free. It could be considerably worse and still be the better choice for the price.
The fact that it’s mostly on par is absolute gravy.
Very good point. I definitely moved over in protest of Plex’s rug pull, so fuck them.
