• nicetriangle@kbin.social
    72·
    11 个月前

    yeah we’re running our own plex server now and it’s been amazing. too many price hikes and reductions in quality of service. over it

    • gkd@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      11 个月前

      My plex server is the best streaming experience I ever had. Only stopped running it because I just wasn’t watching anything for a good bit. More time on my hands now, so time for a revival.

  • Blaiz0r@lemmy.mlEnglish
    72·
    11 个月前

    All of you folks using Plex should check out Jellyfin, it may suit your needs better.

    • Fred@lemm.eeEnglish
      28·
      11 个月前

      Jellyfin is better for in home streaming, but I find plex easier for sharing external to family/friends.

          • icedterminal@lemmy.worldEnglish
            19·
            11 个月前

            Jellyfin gives you 100% control. You’re responsible for setting up remote access. Which actually isn’t that hard. Several IT and network admins of the community (myself included) hand out documentation on how to do this. Without completely ruining your security.

            With Plex, some of the application communication is routed through their network. It requires an active internet connection and you must create an account with them. They have third party analytics embedded, use tracking pixels, beacons and device fingerprinting. Whatever personal data you have supplied is used to serve ads. This being their promoted content that isn’t part of your library.

          • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            2·
            11 个月前

            Couldnt you either use a reverse proxy or something like cloudflare tunnels to open external access and achieve literally the same as plex does?

            • CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              3·
              11 个月前

              Yup. For the server admin, maybe 10 minutes of reading and another 10-20 for setup. For the users (if any), they just need to input an IP or URL along with logging in.

              And it doesn’t rely on external servers to connect like Plex does, which is always a bonus.

    • LordKitsuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      11 个月前

      I keep trying, I have an extremely large collection and it keeps falling flat on metadata matching. Especially with anime, yes I have installed the add-ons. They still suck. And for whatever reason it’s transcoding performance is nowhere near as good. It also still has an unresolved memory leak issue with a ticket that’s been open for a long long time about it. I want to replace Plex but it needs to be with something as good as Plex

      • araozu@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        11 个月前

        I use jellyfin a lot for anime, no plugins. I just label all my folders like kaguya_sama_[tmdbid-12345].

        As long as the The Movie DB id is there, aboslutely no problems indexing.

        • parisEnglish
          6·
          11 个月前

          I’d like to add that Jellyfin has a provider order that it checks for metadata from. I had some issues until I changed the order to pull metadata from the same provider that Sonarr and Radarr use. Once it checked there for metadata first, everything lined up and I’ve had exceptionally few issues.

            • parisEnglish
              2·
              11 个月前

              My provider order for stuff that Sonarr handles (shows/anime):

              1. TheTVDB
              2. AniDB
              3. TheMovieDb
              4. The Open Movie Database
              5. Missing Episode Fetcher

              I don’t know what the last two are and I doubt they ever get used. Sonarr uses TheTVDB

      • TRBoom@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        11 个月前

        I had a lot of trouble jellyfin and anime until I started putting things into season folders, even if they only had one season. So if I had Ano Hana I’d put the episodes in a folder like this

        Media Disk/Anime/Ano Hana/Season 1/episodes_here

        If it’s a movie, then it goes into a folder with other movies.

        Media Disk/Anime Movies/movies_here

        Once I started doing that, Jellyfin automatically recognized most Anime.

        • LordKitsuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 个月前

          I already do this, everything in my media is extremely cleanly named because they are handled by sonarr

          series name/season 00/EPSxxExx-“episode title”

          so it’s not a file format issue. It gets a lot of them but there are certain things especially if they are recently aired or currently airing where it will simply fail to find a match until I give it the Japanese name at which point it manages to find the metadata for the English name. Really stupid stuff like that

      • antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        11 个月前

        Emby is the premium version of Jellyfin. I have found the meta information works a lot better. I haven’t done much transcoding but it does support it, and there are more apps to access it. Not too happy with the iOS app but the LG WebOS app works great.

    • theangryseal@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 个月前

      I’m just happy with all the pirate sites today. Works fine for me. I’m about to cancel everything.

  • DidacticDumbass@lemmy.oneEnglish
    63·
    11 个月前

    I have been rekindling my patronage to my county’s libraries and archive.org.

    Sure, these are DVDs, but they can be upscaled and are easily backed up.

    I buy a crap load of books like I have a spending problem, but I get them used from bookstores and thriftstores. Libraries will always have something I can’t find, with the added glory of browsing serendipity.

    Sure, I like to pirate, but there is more treasure at your ports than you think.

      • DidacticDumbass@lemmy.oneEnglish
        3·
        11 个月前

        I know. It is not great. I ended up using FFMPEG to upscale to 4k using lanzcos filter.

        Not the crispest, but vastly more watchable.

        I will try AI upscaling when I can.

      • DidacticDumbass@lemmy.oneEnglish
        9·
        11 个月前

        I feel you misread. I mean what I spelled, county, the collection of cities that define the specific region I live in.

        My library card gives me access to many libraries in that county, which yes, has works from people across the globe.

      • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        11 个月前

        I went in blind, not knowing anything about One Piece other than it is a long running anime. Easily my favorite show I’ve watched in 2023 so far.

  • JessicaEnglish
    36·
    11 个月前

    All it took for me to take up sailing full time was the removal of King of the Hill from Netflix. I couldn’t find it anywhere at first, so I did the next logical step. I later found out that it was available on Hulu. Asinine. I feel like Hank would have done the same thing, for the principle of it alone.

    Plex is so much better than Netflix, or really any other streaming service, in my opinion. I have all of the content that I want, and supplement the rest with my favorite YouTubers.

  • li10@feddit.ukEnglish
    34·
    11 个月前

    I recently looked at buying NBA league pass in the UK, £100 to watch games that aren’t on at a reasonable time and still full of ads…

    Now I’ve set up RSS to download the games, and the uploaders even cut the ads and intermissions.

  • Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.deEnglish
    8·
    11 个月前

    For around two years now I’m using Kodi with Seren and Real-Debrid on my Smart TV and it was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.

  • koko@ani.socialEnglish
    7·
    11 个月前

    i have never paid for any streaming services and will never tbh

    Rather support directly than through this anti-consumer bs

    • jimbo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 个月前

      What does “support directly” mean? Like you’re going to cut checks to the entire cast and crews of the shows you watch?