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Alternative ways to run Plex?
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this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2023
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Running Jellyfin through a Roku works wonderfully. Jellyfin is a FOSS alternative to Plex and ran great on Roku, but ran poorly on Firestick, so it might just a Roku vs Firestick thing there.
Something else to consider is just buying a really cheap laptop for less than $200 or something and running Plex/Jellyfin or even just use your home network and play everything through VLC via HDMI on the laptop. You could even get a Chromebook and run Ubuntu on it and find an option for close to $100. A laptop option works well because you get to bypass ads and TVs operating system.
Jellyfin is great
I didn’t disregard the question. Plex and Jellyfin do the exact same thing and I described how to run them.
I also mentioned overall alternatives to his issue which is streaming his own content.
Having an option where I can later down the line turn over to Jellyfin is only good. I will convert eventually - just not right now :P Thanks for your insights!