Plex is discontinuing its “watch together” feature
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I can confirm jellyfin is great.... But I have moved onto burning onto physical Media (BD) to avoid HDD / SSD failure with data loss
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Honestly I really don't like how self hosted streaming services have been lumped into the same category as piracy. I have no issue buying media. If the law says I can't share it outside my household I will comply.
My concern is that media companies will go after Jellyfin. They don't really need to win all they need to due is bankrupt everyone involved.
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You need a network level solution. You could pickup a few cheap single board computers and setup Tailscale or Netbird to route traffic back to your server.
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Don't worry, there are countries where it's perfectly legal to rip your own physical media and use it in a digital library. There are some countries where it's even legal to download a pirated digital copy of your owned media.
Jellyfin will remain, and even if the capitalist pigs try and go after it - which is already close to impossible - they'll find shelter in a country with moral values.
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I tried spinning up my own Lemmy instance. Everything was configured properly, but I could not get it working. Mind you, I run lots of things that take more than a drop-in compose.yml, so I'm not sure what I was doing wrong
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Hard agree. PlexAmp has been stellar.
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Optical disks rot even in perfect storage conditions. There's no failure proof storage solution easily available.
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I haven't tried Plex but Jellyfin is super easy. Type in IP, username and password and you're done. Only need to setup port forwarding on the router to make it work.
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I would agree if the features they did work on made sense.
How come every time I open Plex there is another social media integration, yet device downloads haven't worked for literal years.
Plex itself is niche software, offering niche features is why Plex gained popularity, watch together is a great feature, I often use when I'm cleaning house so I can watch a show even as I move around rooms, same thing when cooking, which let's the person in the kitchen watch while others may be in the living room.
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I have like 10 different family members using my server. If I have to do anything beyond just letting them log in to a plex account on the app to get access, they just won't.
Umm that is all you need to do with jellyfin. You can setup wizarr and give them invites to create an account or just manually make them and give out the info to people.
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Jellyfin is not there yet but it definitely can be. It can be done pretty easily without any centralised server.
- Sending people magic links to their accounts on their phones that auto log them into Jellyfin.
- Make IP dictionary to have people type "cat mug door end" which pings the server with a login from an IP.
- Show QR code.
- Scan with an authorised app which pings the server to authorise the device on behalf of the user.
It's passwordless 4 word input + phone scan that can be optimised for TV pretty heavily since you only need make something 10^12 unique to account for all IPv4.
It will take around 15-30 hours to code though for a person familiar with Jellyfin on android TV and server.
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Yeah that's not how that works.
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Yeah disc rot is a problem... But luckily it's A LOT longer (50-100 years)
This is compared to HDD (6 years) and SSD (10 years)
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Extremely slow and clunky UI on Android. Music has no star rating as every other software including Plex and Navidrome has. It sometimes starts transcoding for no apparent reason.
Not perfect but the best we've got.
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That's exactly how it works.
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Jellyfin is the sever bro. You can implement your own client and choose from a pretty decent variety of clients on Android and most platforms. Only Android TV really suffers from required first party support, but the api is documented and we encourage you to make your own or port it to whatever front end you'd like.
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I mean fuck yeah, probably. I share with my family and I had to check their email for them to prove that they received it.
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Yup, took my SO like 10s to get on our Jellyfin server. No issues here.
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But it's easier. Instead of "Netflix" you type "yourdomain.com." And no payment or whatever needed, and it has the same login process as Netflix.
That's it. I call mine "media.mydomain.com," and my domain is really easy to remember.
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It's really not hard though, it's just entering a domain name. If you pick a decent one, it can be very memorable.
All of my stuff is at "thing.domain.com." For Jellyfin, it's "media.mydomain.com." Nextcloud is "cloud.mydomain.com." Actual Budget is "budget.domain.com." Enter that, then you're good. Repeat on any device.
Is that really a barrier for people? Surely this is sufficient:
- Install Jellyfin app
- Enter domain.com
- Login
Do that once and you're good pretty much forever.
