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ulkesh ◴[] 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 ◴[] No.33581046[source]
How do I opt out of everything but my locally stored media?
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aix1 ◴[] 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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cprecioso ◴[] 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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1. aix1 ◴[] 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)