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Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee.

If anyone needs it: https://jellyfin.org/

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[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 136 points 2 weeks ago (123 children)

Why would anyone use Plex over jellyfin anyway? The writing was on the wall years ago.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 21 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

Plex is more polished, jellyfin is basically functional but we use Plex in our household because we watch movies all the time. I have my own personal jellyfin server on an old computer

[–] amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

How much more polish you need to watch a movie? Jellyfin has everything you need. I keep seeing these discussions and for the life of me I cannot figure out what is missing from jellyfin that people use Plex after all they have been doing for years

[–] horse@feddit.org 5 points 2 weeks ago

Working "watched" labels on the Apple TV client would be nice. Not having those is a deal breaker for me considering 99% of my use case is streaming media to my Apple TV over LAN.

I have Jellyfin running along side Plex in case I want to do remote streaming, but I never use it and generally just copy the files for what I want to watch to my laptop if I'm going to be watching something away from home. Or I can just VPN in to my home network.

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