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I took a long hard look the other day and realized there's nothing I can't live without on Netflix. I'm thinking about cancelling. I tend to watch Crave and Disney Plus and rarely even open Netflix.
Take a look at Plex or Jellyfin and self hosting!
Learn a little today, save a lot tomorrow, preserve media for a lifetime.
I setup a Jellyfin server. It took only maybe 15 minutes and I even setup a few profiles with parental controls on one.
I already knew how to acquire the media for the server. It works pretty well on our Roku too. Way better than Plex and way more clean of a UI.
took you 15 minutes? damn i must have been a turtle, and I took a shortcut by using YAMS(yet another media server, basically a script that automates the installation most of the basic features users want)
It was quicker since the machine was already setup as a server on the network. So all I had to setup was Jellyfin. I'm also not including downloading the client software on our phones and Roku. But frankly that was easy and each device found the server immediately.
Plex is cool, I do use that. What is self hosting? I don't know about it.
Self hosting means the server is run by you on your home network. Its kinda bizar not to know this as a Plex user?
Are we talking about the same Plex to watch media?
A good way of knowing who is hosting is looking where the media files are coming from.
Stored on your own pc, nass or server: you are self hosting.
You connected to a url/ip adress a friend gave you. Someone else, maybe your friend is hosting for you.
Jellyfin is Plex but Foss (free open source), which instantly makes it superior in my book. Highly recommend those who have yet to pick.
Any app that runs within your browser is technically selfhosting. Its not just run on pc but accessible by all devices connected to your home network.
You may assume that self hosting exposes to the internet ,which is the intended use case, but unless you portforward the ports it all remains local and safe.
I mean the Plex streaming app?
You can use the Plex app to watch media from other people's servers that they shared with you.
But you can also setup your own Plex server, load your media (movies and series that you can obtain in different ways). This means you'll never have to pay anybody and your media will be yours forever.
Ohhhhh ok thank you.