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People who are staying on Plex, have you tried Jellyfin? What about it do you not prefer? (real question) (discuss.online)

submitted 4 weeks ago by kiol@discuss.online to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Honest question, because I know multiple people who are not looking to jump ship since they already have the Plex Pass.

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[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just put it behind a proxy and require a user cert? Bit of a burdon on the client side, admittedly

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

And effectively none of the Jellyfin clients support this....

So that's not going to work anyways on your friend's TV or their Xbox or their Roku or something else like that.

[–] imhungry@leminal.space 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Tailscale is, as far as I know, the standard way most people access Jellyfin from away from home. I didn't come up with "use tailscale" by myself. Somebody at one point told me to do this too.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes for yourself on a device that supports it but that doesn't address what my post stated.

The devices that I listed in my post are still going to run to the same problem in that sense that you're not going to be able to run tailscale on them either.

It is incredibly difficult to get jelljfin ypen into your friends or your parents or grandparents house without considerable setup and maintenance over time.

[–] imhungry@leminal.space 1 points 3 weeks ago

It is incredibly difficult to get jelljfin ypen into your friends or your parents or grandparents house without considerable setup and maintenance over time.

Not in my experience. I just had to click a few buttons. Once you set it up, it just works, with only the need to occasionally update the server.

Granted, I do have some experience in this area, so I might be doing the arrogant geologist meme. Maybe if it's so difficult to set up, I should do a tutorial one of these days.

[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

meh, how can that be :-( I'm still in the process of setting things up with jellyfin, didnt know...