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From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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333 points indigodaddy | 8 comments | 13 Nov 22 02:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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ulkesh ◴[13 Nov 22 05:35 UTC] No.33580386[source]▶
I suppose I understand the reasons people prefer Jellyfin. But on the small chance of liking a commercial product, Plex is truly dead simple for my parents. They have an AppleTV. They signed up. I share it with them via their registered email address. And they’re in. It was as simple a process as I could hope for.

That being said, do I like everything they’re pushing for? No. But they at least allow users to opt out.

I understand the sentiments here, truly. I just don’t have a compelling reason to change since it does what I want, is simple to set up and use, simple to share, and gets refined all the time.

This is heresy, but not all commercial software is the devil. I suspect RMS would hate me for this.

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d4rti ◴[13 Nov 22 08:08 UTC] No.33581046[source]▶
How do I opt out of everything but my locally stored media?
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1. aix1 ◴[13 Nov 22 08:22 UTC] No.33581133[source]▶
You can disable Online Media Sources in the settings and unpin any section you're not interested in from the main menu.

I've done this and the only things that I see in my Plex app are locally-stored contents and my TV channels (delivered over IP by my ISP).

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2. cprecioso ◴[13 Nov 22 10:44 UTC] No.33581819[source]▶
How are you watching IPTV on Plex? I thought they only allowed that through an actual tuner (+ a Plex Pass)
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3. toni ◴[13 Nov 22 12:53 UTC] No.33582596[source]▶
You need to run a local m3u/epg proxy like xTeVe[1] to emulate a DVR. But you still need a Plex Pass I think.

[1] https://github.com/xteve-project/xTeVe

4. aix1 ◴[13 Nov 22 13:57 UTC] No.33583096[source]▶
I built a thing that integrates with my ISP's TV API and makes it look to Plex like an HDHomeRun tuner. It also generates XMLTV EPG (again, based on my ISP's data) so that I don't have to faff around with third-party EPG providers and with channel matching.

So as far as Plex is concerned, this is an HDHomeRun tuner + XMLTV EPG.

I can also tune directly into any of the TV streams using VLC, in one of three ways:

1. raw MPEG transport stream over UDP multicast

2. same stream over HTTP (via udpxy)

3. my ISP's transcoded HLS stream (lagging by a few seconds and missing certain features)

5. drexlspivey ◴[13 Nov 22 14:32 UTC] No.33583403[source]▶
The major annoyance with that is that you have to explain to your parents/friends how to do that when you give them access otherwise they won’t find your stuff in the ocean of media plex is trying to push at them.
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6. katbyte ◴[13 Nov 22 15:26 UTC] No.33583860[source]▶
You also have to now trust that they have a secure password and don’t share/get them compromised.

I picked Emby for many reasons and one being local accounts I control. Plex pushing you to use their accounts (and then pushing streaming content like this) just wasn’t an option.

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7. ViViDboarder ◴[13 Nov 22 22:29 UTC] No.33588054{3}[source]▶
I’m not sure I understand. With Emby you still have to trust that they have a secure password and don’t share/get them compromised.
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8. katbyte ◴[14 Nov 22 04:03 UTC] No.33590089{4}[source]▶
You can pick the password and not let it be changed.

Also plex suffered a hack that compromised online account user logins.