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Plex Security Incident

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104 points andyexeter | 8 comments | 08 Sep 25 22:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source | bottom
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meesles ◴[08 Sep 25 22:33 UTC] No.45174970[source]▶
Not necessarily related, but I'll take the opportunity to share my dislike of this company. Like others, they built a loyal following around a set of features provided, no questions asked, to stream your content to your own devices.

Over the last couple of years, Plex has continued to strip functionality, add paywalls, make deals with publishing companies, and take other actions that firmly put them in the 'enshittifaction' phase. They've capitalized on the community that gave them their success, so I've cashed out as well.

At this point there is little need for those of us with some technical ability to use this software and all the bloat that comes with it. Jellyfin[1] is an excellent alternative that I've fully switched over to this last year. I will not let a company take ownership of my media library, ever.

[1] https://jellyfin.org/

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1. magicalhippo ◴[08 Sep 25 22:56 UTC] No.45175193[source]▶
I like Jellyfin, but I keep using Plex for two reasons.

First is subtitle support is quite limited in comparison. It fails more often than it works for me.

Second is the lack of skipping.

This is with the Android TV client, haven't really tried the others.

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2. meesles ◴[08 Sep 25 23:01 UTC] No.45175238[source]▶
Fair, I handle subtitles in my ingestion pipeline and so those are ready to go by the time Jellyfin gets involved.

Skipping, do you mean skipping intros and such? Or something else?

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3. vachina ◴[08 Sep 25 23:08 UTC] No.45175321[source]▶
Some Plex clients will fail to direct stream DTS + PGS.

Jellyfin somehow just works on all my devices.

4. magicalhippo ◴[08 Sep 25 23:41 UTC] No.45175576[source]▶
> I handle subtitles in my ingestion pipeline

What do you do? Separate file? Not sure if I've noticed a pattern other than "mostly doesn't work well".

> Skipping, do you mean skipping intros and such?

Sorry, I meant jumping back and forth. On Plex I can just press left/right arrows on the remote, and it jumps a few seconds. On Jellyfin I have to press ok/confirm to actually do the jump. Very annoying.

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5. JamesSwift ◴[09 Sep 25 00:14 UTC] No.45175825[source]▶
Jellyfin clients are the weakest aspect imo. Sort of hit or miss, and the ios client is inferior to a 3rd party paid offering (infuse)
6. 0points ◴[09 Sep 25 07:53 UTC] No.45178865[source]▶
> First is subtitle support is quite limited in comparison.

I always watch with subtitles, but haven't noticed worse support in jellyfin vs plex, really. Granted, I mostly use srt/ssa (text based subtitles).

> Second is the lack of skipping.

You just need to install the intro skipper plugin :)

https://github.com/intro-skipper/intro-skipper

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7. magicalhippo ◴[09 Sep 25 09:00 UTC] No.45179423[source]▶
Hm, I too primarily have srt's. No idea why just says "failed to load" or somesuch and I haven't been arsed to figure out why when I can just hop over to Plex and watch.

That said, I've had a few HDR movies which Jellyfin handled a lot better, so it's a bit here and there.

As for skipping, I primarily skip backwards when I miss dialog (so much mumbling these days), or forward when it's a TV show which has segments I don't care too much about, like say some irrelevant love subplot.

8. theshrike79 ◴[10 Sep 25 07:54 UTC] No.45194597{3}[source]▶
The *arr stack is what people usually use.

Bazarr specifically in this case, it can search multiple locations for missing subtitles automatically.