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Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April (www.plex.tv)
submitted 1 day ago by Sl00k@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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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[–] ByGourou@sh.itjust.works 8 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Jellyfin works in the browser just like Plex.

And for now you can do that, but that's not the first, and not the last update trying to prevent people selling access to their server.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 15 hours ago

Browser apps are very annoying though. The support for some codecs (like HEVC) is usually worse in a browser.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

It definitely has some issues for ease of use. For example Jellyfin for some reason will not find the server on my network in any of the client apps, and typing in a URL by hand with a TV remote is not fun.

[–] Napdyn@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I use a firestick since it has app support

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 hours ago

Yeah that's not the issue, it's just their auto-discovery not working on my network.

[–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, but jellyfin's clients apps are all pretty bad. And I say this as a jellyfin user.

[–] SippyCup 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I have fewer issues with the jellyfin app on my TV than I do with literally any of the streaming apps on the same television. My only gripe with jellyfin is there's no PS5 app.

[–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago

The TV app for my LG is just a webview of the webpage and works great; but on my android devices FinDroid has problems with decoding the video, and the official app kinda sucks, and on my apple devices swiftfin works ok, but sometimes doesn't load the videos and has to be manually relaunched. Dunno about other streaming apps since I never used them, but for me jellyfin's clients are very unreliable.