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Ahoy mateys, it's time to setup Jellyfin if you prefer not to pay for the privilege of self-hosting your own content.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27204525

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] 68 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

What "resources" do you need, exactly, to allow my friends to stream from my server?

[–] Pika 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

mr crabs money meme with mr crabs and an announcer outside of the krusty crab

for real though, such a dumb decision on plex's part lol

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

Developers to keep things up to date and secure. Which I wouldn't mind paying for, but instead they spend it all on making Plex a social media that emails your friends a list of shows you watch? I can tell you right now that other than "watch together" no one is using the Plex social features on purpose

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Pretty sure they’re also sunsetting watch together lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

LMAO that's like 90% of the reason I went with plex in the first place. Just switched over to Jellyfin this weekend. Pretty seamless.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Just to make it clear to any other people reading this, Jellyfin has Group Sync where you can create groups with participants and syncplay media.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What does that have to do with my friends streaming from my server?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

they never said they needed resources for the remote playback… they said that they needed more resources - ie money to develop the software in general, and this are feature gating a useful feature to try and convince people to pay

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

they never said they needed resources for the remote playback…

That's exactly what it sounds like to me...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

that’s fine… but it’s not necessarily what it says. it’s ambiguous at best, but if they’d meant they need you to pay them for resources then theyd probably say it more outright

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Their revenue stream is based on license fees for the software? So if they want to keep the lights on they need money

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Okay so you agree it's nothing to do with "resources" and everything to do with locking features behind paywalls to drive up revenue?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

developers are a "resource" and they need to be paid. Do you want to keep getting updates for your server? Someone needs to do that and that someone wants to be paid in this case

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

Did they write their own software?

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

The software already exists, and has for decades.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Then just ask them if they would share their work for free, or recreate it yourself?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

They're already sharing it for free