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Still searching for a Plex lifetime deal - but found this which let me add it on after the previous deal expired.
Requires a payment method - be sure to cancel before it renews.
No idea when this ends
One Month Free Plex Pass (Save $6.49) @ Plex
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when you die.
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legally a number of business have weaselled out of that definition of Lifetime in relation to the living span of Men and Women from perspective of the eye of the buyer
Businesses and marketing push many Variations of lifetime from perspective of the eye of the seller.
We expect word lifetime based on Today til "we are no longer available" to use it
business push that envelope to history (long history males used to live 35 years is argued the end of their responsibility)
others business go further (dynamic shorter) lifetime is how long an object exists (a horrible chicken egg fallacy "it no longer lives because in no longer lives")
the product stops working therefore its lifetime has ended therefore warranty obligation has ended.other bugger companies lifetime is their internal decision of the assets lifespan
i.e lifetime of your TV is 3 years because when they discontinue selling/updating/supporting it (in context of topic Life that sounds like euthanization)I just wish the word Lifetime was banned from marketing it is always misleading
I think in this case it is indeed an indefinite amount of time, like your account will keep this status.
The "lifetime" thing does rub me off the wrong way when they talk about cars, etc "lifetime" and they expect that to be 7-10 years and the car gets thrown away. 😂
They don't even want to fix their live TV Aussie subtitle issue.
By the sounds of it, you're using plex DVR. (which I'm considering dabbling in) What do you do in terms of an EPG, as I heard Plex cut off data streams for AU a few years ago
I am only using it for local network live tv streaming, stream OK but crashed whenever I enable Aussie Teletext live tv subtitle.
Asked at their forum a few years ago, still nobody want to fix it, it is a known problem.
Movie/video everything else OK
I'm asking about your program guide, does it just work, or did you need to find an XML feed? Plex publicly said they were no longer paying for Australian tv program guides, and said Aussies would have to figure it out for themselves
So you need plex pass for streaming live TV on plex? Never know this feature existed 🤔
Is plex pass even worth it anymore? Plenty of alternatives.
I haven't tried emby, but I tried jellyfin a little while ago after using plex for ages. It's worth noting that I have quite a few remote friends and family who use my server. Jellyfin had quite a few teething issues that would require me to fix manually (mainly with matching media - plex had a total of ~3/500 movies that needed to be manually matched whereas JF was going to have about 150-160 that needed to be manually matched; this one was partially my fault as I didn't have good folder naming for the first ~350-400ish movies on plex, so JF was struggling, but it still would have taken time), and some automations I had would stop working since they require plex to use.
The real kicker was that with plex, my remote users could log into their account and see my server, but with JF they needed to know my IP. I ran a small test for a week and each day my IP changed, and I was getting messages from remote users asking for the new IP to watch stuff - with one day the IP changed 3 times which was a pain. I'm not a hugely tech savvy guy, so there may have been a way to fix it, but I didn't know it, and considering plex was working perfectly, I didn't want to spend the time and effort to figure it out.
The takeaway I get from this is that, based on my experience, if you want remote users, plex is much easier to set up on your end (and on your user's end, especially for non-tech savvy family), but if all your content is local and you start off by setting things up well, JF may be a contender, but migrating if you've had bad habits may take more work than it's worth. FWIW, after the week was up I went back to plex it's been perfect. As for plex pass, I've had lifetime and for me it's been worth it because of my remote users and things like intro skip. Again, these are my personal circumstances so it may not fit you, but for me, plex pass has been great.
Just my 2c
Lookup for DDNS or dynamic dns for the changing IP thing. Tons of free services for that.
Yup, I don't doubt it, but, for my circumstances, one option was to spend a bunch of time (and maybe money) looking into what DDNS things are, and how to make it user friendly and foolproof (I have some very not tech savvy users), and learning about it and troubleshooting if things go wrong, then also fixing all the media matches and updating all of my collection and movie posters etc… And the other option is to just use plex that's already set up and foolproof and works well. It's a thing of time - I could spend potentially a lot of time making jellyfin work like plex does, or I can just use plex, so I'm my situation I went with plex
Good initial impressions, thankyou for the writeup.
Some of your issues with Jellyfin can certainly be fixed - paying $ for a static IP and custom domain name, or cheap/free dynamic DNS service which will enable you to give a semi custom URL to users which follows your changing IP.
User login experience and password changing can also be assisted with a 3rd party tool (forgot the name of it) that enables a signup link to be sent out to them, they can then create their own login details much like with Plex but it's all hosted by you. But again there is additional configuration and security concerns with that.
In the end the fact remains there is more setup, know-how and potential costs needed to get Jellyfin working well, especially with external users.
Plex is likely easier and safer for most but does cost more whether month to month or the upfront cost.
Alternatively you can actually run both at once on the same server pointing at the same media library. They will operate simultaneously and you can configure and try them out at the same time. This will be the best way for anyone to truly figure out which one is better for them!Yeah, given how customisable jellyfin is I'm not surprised there's solutions to my problems, but because I already had plex set up, I didn't want to dedicate time and possibly money to try and get them fixed, especially when I could just go back to using plex perfectly. That said, I have some automations and dashboards that integrate with plex (mainly a third party tool called tautulli), and those looked like a bit of a pain to get working too.
As you said, if you've got one or the other, setting both up is a great way to test (and what I did for my week), so if you're on the fence, it's definitely an idea!
One of the things I like about JF is that it lets you use your local metadata instead of scraping, so if you use Radarr / Sonarr, you can have that set meta data for you.
I'm like 99% sure you can do this with plex as well. What are some examples of metadata that you use locally just so I can double check?
@Opaquer: Sonarr & Radarr can save .nfo files and posters and fanart. When you configure your libraries in JF, you can tell it to just use the local data so it doesn't have to guess what the movie or TV show is, it just takes Sonarr/Radarr's world for it.
I hear Plex used to let you do that as well but at some point they started forcing people to use there own scrapers.
@jonathonsunshine: Ah, normally I was told that you could put things like the year, IMDb/TVDB ID etc in the movie/folder name for things like plex/JF to pick it up, but hadn't heard about the .nfo file. That said, as seen here, Plex has a setting to use local media assets, and you can change the order to choose what you want first.
I don't know specifically if you can give it things like an .nfo, but I put my poster covers into my local file location and plex automatically picks it up and uses that as an override if I don't want to use the default plex poster
Like Jellyfish? I used to have very high expectations for Plex as a replacement for Kodi but years passed and they became a platform for free old movies. It's still my daily local stream server.
I just use it to manage and stream my own movie library. Use Kodi for everything else.
Was using Kodi and it worked well for a while, but I found that the cache and settings config gets too large and took up top much space on my Shield TV.
Am liking Plex for the sync of shows as well, eg watching on my phone and then resuming on the TV, etc. There is an add on for Kodi that does this I believe, but I'm not sure what the setup for it was.
I use the Jellyfin for Kodi add-on and it works well, very easy to set up, I'm sure there's a similar add-on for Plex. I much prefer using Kodi with the Arctic Fuse skin than Jellyfin when watching on TV so this solution works well to keep things in sync.
Just use Jellyfin for free 🤷♂️
Jellyfin live tv, tuner only support HDHomeRun
Unfortunately Jellyfin has no client for Apple TV except for Infuse which requires $$ via subscription.
I think Swiftfin can be used but I don't know much about it
I finally decided to set up plex properly after noticing jellyfin was going to give me a migraine and its nowhere as good as I thought it would be in a features manner. Limited subtitle options. zero laytout for movies option, no ability to play with different forward or backward skip only 30sec, no playback speed options, and heaps more. Maybe I'm blind or its only for the paid version, I dont know.
That was my experience as well, I'd much rather be using a free open source alternative like Jellyfin but the couple of times I've tried it, it just hasn't had the same polish and features of Plex. Got a lifetime sub for ~$50 a while back so happy to continue. Wouldn't pay the subscription though.
I bounce between plex, vlc, and kodi on my media player depending on what I want to do. If kodi could handle dolby vision and not give any slight weird stuff with a few hdr files which is rare, it would be perfect. Useless slackers.
Curious what VLC is still used for
@Ulysses31: Certain things that are more preferential types. Like with VLC I can speed up the video playback. I cant do that with plex or kodi. At least I dont see any option to. So it comes in handy for specific things.
@vlahka: Interesting. Definitely an option with Kodi. I used it when it was late on a weeknight, but I still wanted to "punch-out" a movie.
Yeah I wouldn't pay the subscription either, just a good option for someone (like myself) waiting for a lifetime deal.
I use jellyfin on my tizen Samsung TV but on my other TV with the nvidia shield connected I honestly think vlc via smb network share has better usability and performance
I gave an old Plex lifetime something and I never knew why it’s desirable or I must be using it wring
What's the advantage of this over torrents?
You torrent your files, put them on your server and run a Plex server. It lets you access them from home on your smart TV, computer, phone, etc but also remotely and you can share with friends and family.
I think you've misunderstood what Plex does
as many commented free version works for every day streaming needs. Been leaching Plex from a decade, I purchased premium just to support devs. i saved a lot from Not buying digital content, so what i paid for premium is just a penny when compared. i do enjoy streaming plex when i'm in train using LTE, i think premium only can do it.
Likewise. Plus the transcoding and credit skipping is great.
Plex newbie here - does any one have a guide on how to set up plex?
Not needed. I thought the same, but just downloaded & started using it. Then paid lifetime, and let friends & family access. Crazy how easy & slick it is
Everyones use case is different but I bought lifetime plex past on sale so I could play my library remotely only to realise it relies on port forwarding or upnp.
I now use Tailscale instead which is a free personal VPN, turn it on and your basically on your home network remotely and securely.
Plex pass is still useful as they wont let you play on phones/tablets unless you have it on the server or buy a license per device.
Transcoding is usually the paywalled feature that you buy Plex Pass for.
Am I correct that this would prevent by TVs accessing across the internet? Running Tailscale on my Synology NAS, but if I have my parents TV wanting to connect to my home Plex library that they wouldn't be able to….
What benefit does Plex Pass really offer to justify $6.49 a month?
Wouldn't you use the relevant FTA app for live TV or relevant music app with your TV for music?
Not hating or anything, just unaware on the benefit.
Lets you use the mobile app… still not worth the $6.49
Few more benefits if your running plex server at home
Yeah you'd only buy this if you have a server at home, it's useful for streaming away from home too.
You also wouldn't pay monthly, at least not long term. Would only suggest it to test it, and wait to purchase lifetime when there's a sale.
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