Well that’s annoying.

Forgive me for my ignorance, I know a lot of services are bundled in their domain registration. I haven’t looked into it at all. But I’m assuming I can just bypass all of that and host ngnx?

Remote access, primarily.

And not with a VPN, but properly exposed to the Internet. I’m learning now that it can be done, just has to be done carefully. It’s on my list of things to look into.

I haven’t used jellyfin, only Plex. I hear they are similar in features, with Plex pulling ahead both in features and polish, as well as the variety of apps that can access it.

Jellyfins main problem, for me, is its lack of easy remote access. Lots of configuring to do to make it work safely, or safe but clunky to use with a VPN.

Amazing thank you, when I get time to sit down with this I will probably have more questions!

At all? Even just using their reverse proxy?

For starters, they say “you MAY be affected” only once, maybe twice, and everywhere else they say you “will” need to buy the upgrade.

The whole thing could’ve been worded more carefully and cautiously. They know how their service is used, they know the majority of people with accounts are not hosts and never have been, and probably don’t even understand how it all works.

Not only could the whole message have been worded better, more softly. They could’ve used two templates. They have usage metrics, they could see that my user has never ever connected to any other library, only mine, and mine has always had Plex pass. They could’ve sent him a softball message, informing of the lost feature, sure, but assuring him that his service should remain unaffected because the libraries he’s connected to already have Plex pass.

But no. They sent one message, full of FUD, trying to scare people into buying what they don’t need, because money.

They do not care about users, they care about money. It’s been getting more and more clear over the years with no effort put into fixing bugs on the self hosted side. But now it’s crystal clear, to me anyway.

Same

It’s a very confusing and poorly worded email. My users were equally confused. Not everyone is techy or even deeply aware of how Plex even works. Nor should they be expected to.

The message was designed to confuse and extract money from people who don’t know better. It’s trashy and they should be ashamed.

That said, I’m still using Plex for the time being.

Can you elaborate? I’ve been trying to find a way to expose jf to the Internet safely without a VPN, and I’m getting mixed messages from people.

I just got a cloudfare domain the other day actually.

Yeah, odd response from this community. Entirely unexpected.

I plan on looking into it again, if nothing else than to have a backup when Plex finally does completely crap the bed.

Which I agree, this is pretty close, but I’m not there yet.

I’m glad you posted this because I thought I was alone too, I searched for and didn’t find anyone with this problem. Almost made a post here, but decided I didn’t want the abuse haha.

That’s good to hear. I honestly haven’t tried it yet, I need to. The problem is exposing it to the Internet without a VPN.

Clients don’t concern me, from what I understand it works on Roku and you can stream from your phone to a Chromecast, that’s all my users need.

I refuse to use any TVs built in smart features 🤷‍♂️

Public exposure to the Internet without needing tailscale or a VPN. I keep hearing mixed opinions on whether it’s recommended or not.

I’m not afraid of configuring it, reverse proxy and all that. I just want it to be secure, and I keep getting mixed signals.

For now I’ll keep dealing with Plex, but eventually I’m sure I’ll need to figure out a solution using jellyfin.

Thank you for posting this. I thought it was just me.

In my case, one user actually lost access entirely to my libraries, the updated app was trying to force him to buy a personal pass, even though I have a Plex pass.

I had him reset his app and clear cache, to no avail. I ended up having to REMOVE his access to my libraries, and then reshare them to him, before he could access them again.

He was quite upset at Plex during the entire process.

Then the next day, he got this same email, and was frustrated all over again thinking he was gonna have to fight it again.

Really terrible customer service here, very sloppy. Aside from the fact that this is a greedy cash grab, it’s just being done poorly.

Jellyfin still isn’t feature packed enough for me to switch to, unfortunately.

Which thread? I’m casual, I don’t have time or energy to keep a good ratio. I seed plenty, but it seems like private trackers, for all their benefits, would also be a chore. I’ve looked into them before but never got past needing an invite.

At this point in my life I’m not concerned about the highest bitrate. I use yify for all my movies, and 1337x for TV shows, grab them in full seasons as I need them.

I’m open to new ideas, though, if it’s not too hard to get started.

You’re not alone, I definitely spent the majority of my time on 720p rips. I couldn’t tell the difference between them and 1080. Though these days, actually just recently, I’ve switched over to 1080, and I can tell when it’s lower.

But most my collection is still 720 and I feel no need to go back through and update everything. Maybe when I get arr set up I’ll let it go through and do it for me 🤷‍♂️

You set this up in docker? I’ve been fighting docker all day, finally trying to set up some arr stuff. I’m not convinced that docker is the right way to go.

Love mine, but the motor is a little weak

50TB!

I know many people have much more, but wow. 4k I’m guessing? Or full quality 1080 Blu-ray rips?

My TV is… Inadequate. An old 1080p LCD that won’t die. But it’s plenty big, and the backlight is even and the blacks are black enough. It’s plenty clear.

I’ve really enjoyed 4k stuff on my buddies TV. But not enough to justify ditching a perfectly good TV, and the costs associated with a proper HDR OLED, and the increase to my current storage solution (8TB) and the time to find and download everything at Max resolution. I download most my stuff at 720p, I don’t really notice the difference between the two unless I’m pixel peeping.

Plus my family uses my media server remotely, and my upload is only 14mbps, so I’d need to force transcoding, and I’m not sure my server has enough chooch to do 4 concurrent transcoded streams.

I really should just bite the bullet and start with my storage and get higher bitrate stuff now… gah… it’s a slippery slope lol, and so far I’ve been happy with my simple setup…

Sorry for the wall of text, guess I just needed to write this all out 🤷‍♂️

Yeah steam is where it’s at. I’m sure it won’t last, and they have their own problems. But for now? It really is a service problem with TV and movies.

I can easily buy and own a game from steam, play it on my deck and get updates, no muss no fuss.

Don’t forget deleting things you “bought” from right out under your nose.

Seriously, I did the same thing, early times pirating, only for my whole family. And when Netflix was good, requests for TV shows and movies went way down. I only had to pirate really obscure stuff that wasn’t easily accessible.

But now I’m back in full swing, more than ever before honestly, out of necessity. And I don’t see it slowing down.