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Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April (www.plex.tv)

submitted 1 day ago by Sl00k to c/[email protected]

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We are also changing how remote playback works for streaming personal media (that is, playback when not on the same local network as the server). The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature. This—alongside the new Plex Pass pricing—will help provide those resources. This change will apply to the future release of our new Plex experience for mobile and other platforms.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

It's not that hard to get a reverse proxy up, get a free DDNS, and a SSL certificate from let's encrypt.

https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/2020-08-21-introducing-swag

This is a pretty solid one stop shop for handling all reverse proxy with SSL certificate generation and renewal for jellyfin and other applications like sonarr, radarr, transmission, ombi and lists of others that are pretty much drag and drop configuration files if you're not mucking with the application's default ports.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

That exposes Jellyfin to the internet, so it's not the same feature

[–] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago

And somehow you think that Plex isn't exposing your server to the Internet for streaming while not on your local network?

Okay there Mr. Madison.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

My dude if you are connecting from outside your local network you are "exposed" to the Internet in some way. What magic are you thinking Plex is doing? Is someone hand deliverying the packets via USPS?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Plex runs relay servers where your Plex server will connect to the relay and your player will also connect to the relay, making both ends of the connection egress type as far as routing and access control goes. https://support.plex.tv/articles/216766168-accessing-a-server-through-relay/

It's optional and likely not everyone uses it, but this provides a way for Plex to do remote streaming without the Plex server being reachable directly from the internet.

Separately, it costs money for Plex to run.