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The crowd that claims that setting up an elaborate VPN scheme is fine has a problem entering an IP range?

Of course it is. That’s literally what it is made for

The state of Nextcloud is not in any way comparable to the mess Jellyfin calls a Backend

Theres a reason everyone uses a VPN to allow remote streaming for their Jellyfin. The things as open as a barns door, so you should not just open it to the public. Like I said, even the devs say not to do that, its just not secure enough

Running Plex locally is still perfectly viable without going through their servers

Surely you haven’t exposed your Jellyfin to the open net, since even the devs admit that that is a terrible idea

Surely you must be trolling at this point

(Assuming you have a Plex pass):

1. Setup for Plex isn’t just easier, its basically non existent. Run the exe, point to folder, done. HW encoding just works, transcoding just works, metadata gathering just works.

2. remote streaming. No need to setup an elaborate VPN scheme and install a client for it on every device you want to have remote access. It just works and even punches through CGNAT and the like

3. Clients. Plex has a client for every system under the sun. No need for sideloading or anything like that, they are everywhere

4. UI. Plex has a sane and good looking ui for the streaming client and the admin interface.

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Jellyfin is not bad, but its just not a replacement for Plex. And the way the devs are acting, I doubt it ever will be

Because Jellyfin did not exist back then and does not have feature parity today? But I know you just wanted to show everyone how smart you are for using Jellyfin…

I, and I assume everyone on this forum who has one, paid around 50-100€ for their lifetime pass. My hardware encoding works great and doesn’t need me to tell it about each and ever codec in existence and how to handle each one.

The new price is insane, but that was not the topic of this thread.

And Plex doesn’t require any. It’s okay to accept that one product can be more polished than the other, and Plex has a lot of stuff that “just works”

If you ignore the mostly horrendous UI, the security problems, the worse transcoding performance, the harder setup, the difficulty to access it remotely in a safe way,… Yeah sure, way better