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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.
Not nice man
dude !!!
Dial it back, lachlantula!
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
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!
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.
Just use Jellyfin for free 🤷♂️
Jellyfin live tv, tuner only support HDHomeRun
I got one a while back, when does it expire?