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From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

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333 points indigodaddy | 2 comments | 13 Nov 22 02:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.657s | source
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irusensei ◴[13 Nov 22 09:36 UTC] No.33581500[source]▶
I’ve stopped using Plex-like stuff. I don’t really need it because transcoding isn’t as relevant as it was before. Pretty much every device I own can play h265 without CPU overhead.

What I’m doing is basically a Samba file share + Infuse/Kodi. Thats it. You pretty much get the same results. Infuse can sync between devices using cloud sync and trackt, which can be used through a hide-my-mail account. Kodi can sync watched shows through said Trakt account.

Infuse costs me a dollar a month and Kodi is free. I don’t need a NAS with a powerful CPU that can transcode. Anything that has disks and saturates the gigabit connection is enough.

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1. edude03 ◴[13 Nov 22 14:45 UTC] No.33583496[source]▶
One major upside to plex is the ease of watching content over the internet though. There isn't a an easy way for me to give my friends access to samba over the net and then also 4k blu ray rips are a lot to stream over the internet
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2. Vrondi ◴[13 Nov 22 16:31 UTC] No.33584582[source]▶
...and how secure is this?