Also Plex: everything works great but you can have tons of rad features for $5 a month, or just pay $90 once for life! Hell yeah, I snagged that life time pass and love all the extra features.
Auto detection of intros and credits and the ability to skip them is my favorite. Downloading files to any device for offline watching. Hardware accelerated streaming (vital). Being able to set bandwidth limits. It’s all pretty key imo
It’s far less complicated than any other solution out there. Just install the server, point it to your media libraries, and set up the proper forwarding on your router or firewall. Then you can just sign into Plex app on any device and it pulls up your videos.
my main issues are the lack of hardware and lack of media libraries. I’d basically have to build those from scratch since I’ve grown up for more than half my life with streaming services being the main way to watch anything it also doesn’t help that I have very little experience using a computer as anything more than a way to browse the internet. I can use a phone like a damn wizard, but you give me a laptop or desktop, and I might as well be an 80 year old that’s never seen one. I’m sure I’ll figure it out eventually, but it’s gonna take me a little bit of time.
You can browse directly to your server’s local IP address and use it that way if your Internet goes down. The cloud stuff just allows you to connect from the outside without port forwarding on your firewall.
I can’t see why not, if you know how to set it up. I am sure there are existing docker containers to help you out. But I am a Plex guy, not a Jellyfin expert.
Plex be like:
“All this shit you got is legit, right?”
“Yep, all 15,000 video files, yes sir, now plz stream.”
Also Plex: everything works great but you can have tons of rad features for $5 a month, or just pay $90 once for life! Hell yeah, I snagged that life time pass and love all the extra features.
I’ve never looked into anything outside of the vanilla setup, what kind of features are you enjoying?
Auto detection of intros and credits and the ability to skip them is my favorite. Downloading files to any device for offline watching. Hardware accelerated streaming (vital). Being able to set bandwidth limits. It’s all pretty key imo
That does sound pretty rad, thank you
I’ve been looking into plex but it seems complicated
It’s far less complicated than any other solution out there. Just install the server, point it to your media libraries, and set up the proper forwarding on your router or firewall. Then you can just sign into Plex app on any device and it pulls up your videos.
my main issues are the lack of hardware and lack of media libraries. I’d basically have to build those from scratch since I’ve grown up for more than half my life with streaming services being the main way to watch anything it also doesn’t help that I have very little experience using a computer as anything more than a way to browse the internet. I can use a phone like a damn wizard, but you give me a laptop or desktop, and I might as well be an 80 year old that’s never seen one. I’m sure I’ll figure it out eventually, but it’s gonna take me a little bit of time.
There is a whole piracy community at lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy that makes the library building part super easy.
thanks, I’ll go check it out.
Does Plex have a dependency for their servers? Like, if I were to unplug my modem would it still work or would it flip shit if it can’t phone home?
I love Plex for the most part, but this is why I also run jellyfin with my same media collection.
You can browse directly to your server’s local IP address and use it that way if your Internet goes down. The cloud stuff just allows you to connect from the outside without port forwarding on your firewall.
I don’t mean when the internet goes down but never has internet access. Like I would want it on it’s own VLAN with no internet access.
In you use case I would look at Jellyfin. One of Plex’s main features is sharing across the web
Would Jellyfin play well with a VPN to watch media while outside my network?
I can’t see why not, if you know how to set it up. I am sure there are existing docker containers to help you out. But I am a Plex guy, not a Jellyfin expert.
I appreciate the help! Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions.
Jellyfin runs great via VPN
Don’t believe so, you have to create a plex account and authenticate to use the platform.
You can absolutely configure it to allow exceptions for LAN so that you don’t need to authenticate to their servers over the web.
Oh, fair enough! Never tried this.