Important 2025 Plex Updates
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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.

  • @[email protected]English
    5•14 days ago

    I gotta be honest, when I look at the problem pragmatically, it’ll be a lot easier to pay $20 a year than to switch to jellyfin and get all my users to figure out how to install clients and make it work for them.

    I’m already at the point in my life where my primary concern is making things work smoothly, and if I need to throw money at something to make it work smoothly, the choice is a no brainer. (At least for some values of “money”)

    • @[email protected]English
      -1•14 days ago

      Jellyfin works in the browser just like Plex.

      And for now you can do that, but that’s not the first, and not the last update trying to prevent people selling access to their server.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•14 days ago

        It definitely has some issues for ease of use. For example Jellyfin for some reason will not find the server on my network in any of the client apps, and typing in a URL by hand with a TV remote is not fun.

      • EstebiuEnglish
        2•14 days ago

        Yeah, but jellyfin’s clients apps are all pretty bad. And I say this as a jellyfin user.

        • @[email protected]English
          0•14 days ago

          I have fewer issues with the jellyfin app on my TV than I do with literally any of the streaming apps on the same television. My only gripe with jellyfin is there’s no PS5 app.

          • EstebiuEnglish
            2•14 days ago

            The TV app for my LG is just a webview of the webpage and works great; but on my android devices FinDroid has problems with decoding the video, and the official app kinda sucks, and on my apple devices swiftfin works ok, but sometimes doesn’t load the videos and has to be manually relaunched. Dunno about other streaming apps since I never used them, but for me jellyfin’s clients are very unreliable.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•14 days ago

        Browser apps are very annoying though. The support for some codecs (like HEVC) is usually worse in a browser.