Raising prices you say? Oh that's too bad. : memes

[–] [email protected] 199 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Yo where's my boy Jellyfin

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (2 children)

How about Jellyfin server, synced with Kodi for playing on the TV?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 months ago (20 children)

I use jellyfin on my TV too. No kodi needed

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

WebOS app for me has been working like a champ for a long while now. It's so nice that it just works with my existing remote and everything.

Blocked all traffic to my TV at the router except local, and now it's a beautiful, free beast. Love the jellyfin crew.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Last I checked, they didn't support my webos version without me doing the developer mode trick, but my Nvidia shield/ Jellyfin for Android TV works like a charm

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I started here but switched to just jellyfin. way easier, fewer issues, etc

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Love Jellyfin and kiddos have noticed how much better it is; they often request older stuff they've heard about that's not available elsewhere

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Jellyfin server with Infuse on an AppleTV is a match made in heaven!

[–] [email protected] 122 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Downgrading your service to offer a worse user experience than piracy you say?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago

To shreds you say?

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Plex be like:

"All this shit you got is legit, right?"

"Yep, all 15,000 video files, yes sir, now plz stream."

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Also Plex: everything works great but you can have tons of rad features for $5 a month, or just pay $90 once for life! Hell yeah, I snagged that life time pass and love all the extra features.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Does Plex have a dependency for their servers? Like, if I were to unplug my modem would it still work or would it flip shit if it can't phone home?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

I love Plex for the most part, but this is why I also run jellyfin with my same media collection.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You can browse directly to your server's local IP address and use it that way if your Internet goes down. The cloud stuff just allows you to connect from the outside without port forwarding on your firewall.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)

I don't mean when the internet goes down but never has internet access. Like I would want it on it's own VLAN with no internet access.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago (18 children)

I pay for a bunch of crap because I split it with my ex, but now I'm waiting for them all to throw a bitch fit over multiple households so I can just go back to the implied activity.

I like paying for things, and have been more accepting than most about price hikes cause I get that servers cost money. Lately though I've been tired of reading about the "pay more as we strip content" strategy everyone is utilizing. The real kicker though is watching people who outright paid for content having it stripped from them.

If purchasing isn't owning, piracy isn't theft. Of course I'm aware of the legal reality of content ownership, but it's still implied that by "purchasing" a title you'll retain access to it. Like on Steam, if something gets pulled but you own it, they still have it tucked away somewhere so you can still download it in the future - They don't just tell you to eat a dick.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (9 children)

Do people not prefer Plex anymore?

[–] [email protected] 74 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Jellyfin is the new plex

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (18 children)

Combine it with sonarr, radar, jackett and qBitTorrent and it's incredibly easy to get a new show or movie

I feel like a wizard being able to add a movie to jellyfin for my mom in minutes

Also love that new episodes auto download!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I disagree unless there is a way for me to share my library with other people with out putting my Jellyfin server in a DMZ or exposing it ports to the internet. There is some security things I am worried about and feel like Plex is better. And I run both

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

I still use Plex but I’m considering a concurrent jellyfin server for when it inevitably enshitifies in ways I can’t tolerate.

I paid for a lifetime like 10 years ago so I def got my money worth, and it costs me nothing to keep using now.. but I don’t want all my eggs in one basket.

As the server owner, I’ve disabled all of plex’s self-promotional bullshit for now.. and the only people who actually use my server are “home” users, which I have control over, so it’s just not an issue for any of them. Yet.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

Plex has been enshittifying for a good while now.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That depends on your goal. If you want something free, open source and self-hosted then Plex isn’t the best option and you’d do better to look at Jellyfin or Kodi.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Don't need it. Stremio does everything I need.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (6 children)

What's the best way for me to stream to a Samsung (Q70T) TV these days? I use a Plex server, and their Plex TV app (which is hit & miss quite often), but at least it has a nice GUI.

If watching directly from laptop I have Kodi, but have also installed Jellyfin for testing recently.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (5 children)

My wife requires me to find the answer to this in order to cancel “convenient streaming”

IK if you put your tv in developer mode you can sideload other apps like jellyfin (better then plex, doesn’t require email signup)

I have yet to find an app to sideload that connects to online free streaming sites or alternatively a pc way to search and download that same contest to the jellyfin drive that is more noob friendly then torrents.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I jumped Plex ship long time ago, don't trust them. Jellyfin is open source and the way to go

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

"We're raising prices and inserting ads!"
"I've been pirating your shows for years!"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (10 children)

Stremio

Oh. Something I need to go figure out. Is it good?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Very good and much easier to setup than Kodi due to the add-ons being cloud based vs locally downloaded. I still recommend learning Kodi as a more reliable backup. The torrentio addon for Stremio goes down on occasion for a few hours which can happen at inconvenient times. Lately it's been pretty stable though.

Having both set up and synced with trakt is recommended.

Sorry for the reddit link but this is a great guide for Stremio. Beautiful thing is you can set it up on any device and all you have to do for any future device is sign in. All add-ons are cloud sources that save your settings to your account. https://www.reddit.com/r/StremioAddons/comments/15agu2p/stremio_torrentio_debrid_a_howto_guide/

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Add torrentio and don't look back.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (15 children)

What are the best hardware and OS combos for a media setup?

Nvidia Shield + Lineage OS? Chromesomething? Roku? AppleTV? X86 + Linux? (I’m not afraid of Linux, but remember some posts about video acceleration not working and services being web only.)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

My server is 12+ years old made with desktop parts and I use an original Apple TV to watch.

This can be done cheaply.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I just use Android TV.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I want to love Kodi but God damn is it user unfriendly a lot of the time.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

I used Kodi for some years but immediately switched to Jellyfin as soon as I tried it. Basically Plex without the proprietary cloud service.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Context?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe that SkyShowtime - being inspired by the likes of of Netflix and Amazon Prime - announced it'll be raising prices and adding an ad-powered "cheaper" tier.

Streaming services have become what cable was all those years ago: ad-powered, overpriced, low quality entertainment.

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