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Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April (www.plex.tv)
submitted 19 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

There's a jellyfish app on Xbox?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Are you by chance using Wayland?