Important 2025 Plex Updates
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Personal Media and Beyond You’re going to be hearing a lot from us this year—we’ve got a ton of exciting...

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.

  • PhoenixzEnglish
    16•11 days ago

    Hellooooo jellyfin!

    Only use open source software

    • lilloEnglish
      3•11 days ago

      Jellyfin + Tailscale, the perfect combination.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•10 days ago

      They do not have chromecast support. (Atleat the last time i checked) Thats a deal breaker for me, would love to use it.

      • PhoenixzEnglish
        1•7 days ago

        … I’m using Chromecast and Google TV, though Chromecast isn’t very good, really, and Google TV stared showing commercials every now and then since a while ago, so that too will be on its way out.

        But yeah, they’re supported

      • @[email protected]English
        1•10 days ago

        I run Jellyfin on Chromecast with Google TV every day, it works super well.

        Unless you mean casting from your phone, then I don’t know.

      • dantheclammanEnglish
        0•10 days ago

        IIRC it has it. Not if you’re behind VPN or a tunnel. Only over HTTPS.

          • dantheclammanEnglish
            1•10 days ago

            Yes, it does introduce insecurity, so not for everyone. I have it behind a domain on cloudflare (let’s encrypt cert) with nginx reverse proxy

              • dantheclammanEnglish
                1•10 days ago

                Yes, it took me a long time to figure it out. Which is why Plex feels comfortable charging for it

                • @[email protected]English
                  1•10 days ago

                  I really, really wish I could competently set up and maintain a Jellyfin server. But even if I could, I have to get my wife comfortable with interfacing with it too. She has really enjoyed using Plex because it basically slots right in any lineup of the major streaming services

                  • dantheclammanEnglish
                    1•9 days ago

                    I have offered logins to a couple family and they just say hmm, never heard of it, sounds illegal and don’t use it lol

          • dantheclammanEnglish
            2•10 days ago

            I just confirmed it has it. You need to be on the same subnet, which is why VPN won’t work. But then everything shows up as castable