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cross-posted from: https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/post/2333639

I was just forwarded this someone in my household who watches our server. That's it folks. I've been a hold out for a long time, but this is honestly it.

They want me to pay to stream content that I bought from my hardware transcoded also on my hardware.

I'll say it. As of today, I say Plex is dead. Luckily I've been setting up Jellyfin, I guess it's time to make it production ready.

Edit: I have a Plex Pass. More comments saying “Just buy a plex pass” are seriously not getting it. I have a Plex Pass and my users are still getting this.

And for the thousandth person who wants to say the same things to me:

  • YES I know I'm unaffected as a Plex Pass owner.
  • My users were immediately angry at it, which made me angry. Our users don't understand what plex pass is, and they shouldn't have to, that's why I had it. The fact that they were pinged even though it should have kept working is horribly sloppy
  • Plex is still removing functionality. I don't care that "People should pay their fair share". If Plex wants to put every new feature behind a paywall, that's completely okay. They are removing functionality.
    • "But they have cloud costs". Remote streaming is negligible to them. It's a dynamic DNS service. Plex client logs in, asks where server is, plex cloud responds with the IP and port of where server is located. That's it.
    • "Good luck finding another remote streaming" - Again, Plex just opens up an IP and port. Jellyfin also just opens up an IP and port (Hold on jellyfin folks I know, security, that's a separate conversation). All "remote streaming" is is their dynamic dns. Literal pennies to them. Know what actually is costing them money? Hosting all of that ad-supported "free" content that they're probably losing money on.

In short, I don't care how you justify it. Plex is doing something shitty. They're removing functionality that has been free for years. I'm not responding to any more of your comments repeating the same arguments over and over.

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[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've only ever used jellyfin and have no complaints.

I avoided plex and went with jellyfill because it's free/libre software.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It wanted me to organize my files and then it started to transcode them when I streamed. Not optimal for my use case

[–] craig9@lemm.ee 3 points 13 hours ago

I found that this was a problem for me too. It ended up being a codec or container format (maybe MKV container?) that was not supported in my browser (Firefox). I dug into it and realised that the latest version of FF which I could get if I used the Mozilla repository, completely solved the problem.

[–] thejoker954@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I had/have problems with Jellyfin transcoding too.

Basically transcoding things that didn't need it and wouldn't transcode things that did need it.

[–] ridethisbike@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are containers that will transcode immediately upon import if that's what you prefer.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I don't NEED to transcode, it plays in VLC just fine

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Your smart tv might not have VLC in it. That's like saying "I don't NEED financing, I can pay for my house all at once", like, good for you, but you're in a very privileged spot, and VLC is a beast so it's really not fair to compare it with an embebed video player on a smart tv or something. You can disable transcoding btw, it's enabled by default so that it's more compatible, which makes absolute sense.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I don't watch on a smart tv, I watch on VLC.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Then why are you using Jellyfin for?

[–] craig9@lemm.ee 1 points 13 hours ago

See my comment above, it could be a browser issue?