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I’ve got Jellyfin up and running right now on a DS620Slim NAS and it’s running pretty good so far. I’ve seen a lot of people say they prefer Plex over Jellyfin. What are the main advantages to plex?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

?! I can watch stuff locally from my Plex server even if my internet is down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You have to disable authentication for certain ip's / local networks. It's not easy or straight forward, but it works.

Last time I had an outage, I was still watching from my roku and in the browser.

https://www.howtogeek.com/303282/how-to-use-plex-media-server-without-internet-access/

Trick is, it's 4000% easier to set up when you're on the internet.

You can insert some xml in places if you're offline, but if you're offline, knowing the places is incredibly difficult.