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Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by otters_raft@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee.

If anyone needs it: https://jellyfin.org/

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[–] abfarid@startrek.website 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Both will happen.

🤞. Hopefully it's just JF getting better, of course, but that last app redesign on Plex was really rough. I had to downgrade the app to make it work well again.

Of course I can put extra work into formatting my subtitles to make them work everywhere. Sometimes they are embedded, sometimes they are an .srt file next to the video file. And I don't want to spend time normalizing all of them. It already just works all the time on Plex, so I'll simply wait until JF fixes the support.

[–] punkibas@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can also try Wholphin, it's a jellyfin client with subtitle search like Plex.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Thank you for your suggestion. That seems like a very nice JF client, but unfortunately it's Android-only, and we do most of our watching on iPads.

I will definitely try it on my Android TV though.

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't think Jellyfins focus is currently to support irregular naming schemes. Naming media correctly with a proper scheme is the way to go.

Just so you know I wouldn't hold my breath.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm not talking about naming schemes. The subtitles are detected, but they either crash the client or render improperly or just don't show up despite being selected. I guess I'm really waiting for a decent multi-platform client that just works.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's odd because the clients are just web apps I think. That should work without crashing on a stable OS. I use them on Android mobile and Android TV with extensive subtitle usage and haven't seen instability.

A funny thing I noticed is that the client distributed in F-Droid is extremely old even though it says it's updated recently.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago

I think the official client might be a webapp, but other clients on iOS are mostly native apps. Honestly, maybe it's better on other platforms, but since my gf and I do most of our watching on iPads we don't see the full picture.