We are also changing how remote playback works for streaming personal media (that is, playback when not on the same local network as the server). The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature. This—alongside the new Plex Pass pricing—will help provide those resources. This change will apply to the future release of our new Plex experience for mobile and other platforms.

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[–] Mr_fuzzy@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

This is why we stremio

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If you are worried about opening port 443 on your local firewall I suggest trying to get a cheap vps with decent bandwidth and hosting a reverse proxy on it that points back to your local jellyfin over a tunnel.

Ive been doing it for a few months now and finally got all my family off of Plex.

[–] Brodysseus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Can you elaborate more on this? I'm wondering how to set up jellyfin for people outside my lan to use and its unclear to me which method is best.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Or you can dump your media server on another vlan on your same network. That's what I do.

[–] randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Does anyone have any helpful guides on setting up jellyfin with a certificate so they can privately host it while also keeping it secure and up to date? I think if using docker it would make sense to use compose and configure traeffic proxy and use let's encrypt for certificates.

Plex takes care of this for you with their cert and authentication systems. I feel like if user management and secure authentication is easy to set up then that is the primary reason to leave Plex. If I can just hand out accounts to anyone whom I would like to access my instance with ease then my family members could easily access it.

If one was to host from the home, using something like tailscale to host it online with forwarding a port would also be ideal.

[–] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Look into a thing called Caddy. It can do a few things but it makes certificates super easy. You will likely need to buy a domain tho. They can be cheap if you don't care what its called.

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[–] 1984 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I use kodi... Not sure why jellyfin would be better. But sure, I cant stream to other devices than my tv.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Perhaps you can merge Jellyfin and Kodi, I know you can use your Plex Server with Kodi.

[–] tane@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Anyone have a good audiobook app to use with emby? I’ve completely switched all my video to emby but still have plex for plexamp with my audiobooks

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[–] Talaraine@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

I thought it was pretty commonplace for people to just set up a vpn on their router and act like they're on their own network. I guess I'm an idiot, but I'm actually surprised people were paying for this in the first place.

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