KatherinaReichelt@feddit.org to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoPlex’s price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfinwww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square328linkfedilinkarrow-up1774arrow-down126cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
arrow-up1748arrow-down1external-linkPlex’s price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfinwww.androidauthority.comKatherinaReichelt@feddit.org to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square328linkfedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
minus-squareCouldbealeotard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoYou can get around this by extending your network with a VPN. I know that’s an extra config, but a lot of people who are setting up home labs are already doing this anyway. How does jellyfin offer remote streaming without a VPN?
minus-squareTh3D3k0y@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoIt has User accounts and have people access with a login through port forwarding. myIPaddress:8383 effectively, which directs to my movie NAS I tried to do a VPN with Tailscale and just couldn’t wrap my head around it.
minus-squareCouldbealeotard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoSo, it sounds like it doesn’t offer a remote streaming service like Plex then. You just publicly expose or use a VPN like you can with Plex.
You can get around this by extending your network with a VPN. I know that’s an extra config, but a lot of people who are setting up home labs are already doing this anyway.
How does jellyfin offer remote streaming without a VPN?
It has User accounts and have people access with a login through port forwarding. myIPaddress:8383 effectively, which directs to my movie NAS
I tried to do a VPN with Tailscale and just couldn’t wrap my head around it.
So, it sounds like it doesn’t offer a remote streaming service like Plex then. You just publicly expose or use a VPN like you can with Plex.