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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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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I had the same experience with my parents. They have a Samsung TV and the Jellyfin experience was awful.

I ended up getting them a little N100 mini pc and installed Bazzite and the Jellyfin app from Flathub. You can configure it so it knows it’s on a TV, and responds to keyboard controls. I got them a remote from a company called Pepper Jobs that gives keyboard input and now they have a great experience with it. Even my mom, who’s a big technophobe, loves it.

My dad also has an LG TV in his workshop that doesn’t have a working Jellyfin app (cause it’s ten years old), and he uses the Jellyfin app for his Xbox on that one.

[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So the flatpak version of Jellyfin works for you? I cant get it to play more then one thing. hitting the play button just does nothing.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah. I had to go into the settings and change some setting to get it to work with keyboard input.

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just played a bunch of episodes on Fedora KDE (Flatpak from flathub, Jellyfin client v.1.11.1, Jellyfin server v.10.10.6) without any trouble.

[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you by chance using Wayland?

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yep!

[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Figured it out. The flatpak version will fail to play video if you have audio pass through enabled. The .deb package works though.

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 hours ago

Thank you for adding your troubleshooting and solution to the thread. This is gonna turn into Wisdom of the Ancients eventually. ;-)

[–] Zeroc00l@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's a jellyfish app on Xbox?

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Yep. My dad said it’s working great for him.