Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year.

[fritobugger2017@lemmy.world]

Unable to set up a working server for outside of the home network. Also, the UI is terrible and didn't organize things well.

[nutcase2690@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

i've been using http://playit.gg/ to set up a simple proxy that i can share with my friends! You just forward the port that jellyfin uses and share the link (and it works for all manner of other servers)

[petter1@lemm.ee]

Me too 🫢

[nutcase2690@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Just shared in another comment, instead of doing this you can also use http://playit.gg/ to create a proxy without requiring an account and also not requiring port forwarding. They lease you a domain name, too

[Guest]

Finamp is great.

[Guest]

Tailscale is also free.

[farcaller@fstab.sh]

First party app, yes. Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll give swiftfin a try.

[uxyivrljperl@lemmy.world]

Paid 99, worst investment i did till now.

[max_dryzen@mander.xyz]

Plex is the current war front. May it hold for many years.

[brewchin@lemmy.world]

The US$75 Lifetime price has traditionally been their Black Friday deal, regardless of the usual price.

Anyone's guess if that deal will still be a thing, given their recent behaviour, though.

[zink@programming.dev]

There were some hoops for me to jump through in order to get secure remote access working for sure. Fortunately for my family that connect remotely, it’s transparent for them and doesn’t require any kind of VPN or tunnel. They just need URL, user, and password.

[rexios@lemm.ee]

I like how no one is mentioning that they removed the one time fees for their mobile apps to be able to play media at all. Also, only the server owner needs Plex Pass and anyone they share with can stream for free.

[mailloche@lemmy.ca]

How so? My friends need to use my account or else they need to pay to watch my movie? Did that change?

[roofuskit@lemmy.world]

Duckdns is not stable enough. You'll have downtime multiple times a year.

[roofuskit@lemmy.world]

Possibly a bit annoying for family members used to just logging in though. It's an extra step.

[someone64@lemmy.world]

When I tried that service recently I found that it’s incredibly slow. It’s like all the ISPs in the Philippines intentionally throttle it or something. In contrast to that, using Zerotier to connect instead gives me normal speeds.

[criticalmiss@lemmy.world]

What they’re actually gonna do is release Plex 2 or something and then just invalidate all the old lifetime licenses, as they were for Plex and not Plex 2

[rexios@lemm.ee]

Read the article

[jigglysackles@lemmy.world]

I have another comment in this thread about my own experience so I'll copy that here.

I can use plex on ps4, xbox. I use my ps4 for all my streaming so jellyfin not being in there means more annoyance for me. I have Jellyfin setup side by side with plex, accessing the same content and Plex displays it all properly while jellyfish does funky shit like displaying multiple entries for a single show (it had nearly 50 entries until I manually reworked a ton of filename shit), or fucking up and showing box art and a title for a porn movie instead of the actual movie which was Princess Mononoke. There may be settings that help with this buried somewhere but for now it's definitely more of a pain to use.

[padge@lemmy.zip]

Well, sounds like I have six weeks to spin up Jellyfin side-by-side with Plex to see if I can get away with not paying the $120 ransom...