I was just forwarded this someone in my household who watches our server. That's it folks. I've been a hold out for a long time, but this is honestly it.
They want me to pay to stream content that I bought from my hardware transcoded also on my hardware.
I'll say it. As of today, I say Plex is dead. Luckily I've been setting up Jellyfin, I guess it's time to make it production ready.
Edit I have a Plex Pass. More comments saying "Just buy a plex pass" are seriously not getting it. I have a Plex Pass and my users are still getting this.
Yes, now keep going with that train of thought and imagine what would happen if you put Plex behind the same wireguard setup. Specifically whether or not Plex would consider that local or remote streaming.
plex should consider that local, because now your traffic goes through that network, and reaches computers and services on that network. except if it relies on broadcasts, because wireguard does not forward broadcasts, but even with jellyfin that only affects automatic server discovery and DLNA, if you type in the URL it will work
Yes, so then OPs issue with Plex charging for remote streaming are irrelevant.
By nature of setting up Wireguard for Jellyfin, you've eliminated the entire purpose of switching to Jellyfin in the first place.
if we are only looking at this issue, then yes
Outside of ideological reasons or fears of further enshittification, is there anything Jellyfin does better? (Honest question)
no outside party will know what, when and where you watch
I'd say hw enc/dec, flexibility on the UI, and plugins still being an options are the big ones.
Along with not having to disable online media sources. Also not having to deal with cert pinning is a major benefit too. No external outage breaks your use.
Doesn't Plex now have hw encoding / decoding?
They do, but JF has been more broadly supporting of GPUs than Plex in my experience.
Apologies I neglected to the read your entire comment, all in all I suspect it’ll be a logistical nightmare for Plex.
Yeah, my only point is just that if you're going to switch to jellyfin because of this, you're going to have to setup wireguard, at which point you've circumvented the original issue that made you go to Jellyfin.
If you really can't stand Plex on an ideological basis that's one thing, but I dont think most people here realize the above about wireguard.