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[–] klankin@piefed.ca 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

But also benefits of both, reduced cost with easier remote setup, while simultaneously not being plex

[–] hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wait, does emby do remote access similar to Plex? And without VPN like JF? That's literally the only thing keeping me on Plex.

[–] klankin@piefed.ca 2 points 2 days ago

I only personally have experience with jellyfin, but the docs of Emby look to support the same remote access as Plex (without the TURN server).

So essentially you can use a login instead of a server IP, but it does require port forwarding or upnp on your router - which you may already have enabled.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website -4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Also you dont have to be lumped in with the frothing at the mouth Jellyfin users.

[–] klankin@piefed.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Beats frothing for a company, if I gotta froth

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's only frothing if you insist that installing tailscale on your grandma's DSL modem is the best way to share home movies

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Plenty of frothing about how jellyfin is a non starter because all 47 of my grandparents can't stream Snakes On A Plane from my server without needing to know how to spell internet.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago

Like I'm all for choices you know. But I want people to make informed choices. If I'd tried to pitch Jellyfin to my group of gamer friends for sharing media then it would have gone nowhere because it requires more technical knowledge than they possess or that I want to support. They were all able to set up free, relatively secure Plex instances with essentially no assistance.

[–] klankin@piefed.ca 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Funny enough I'm in the "open it to the wan just practise basic web access hygiene" camp, I hope that makes me at least a little frothy

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

not a frothyboi sorry. unless you're encouraging other people to just open it to the internet with no security in place... that'd be a bit frothy.