I was just forwarded this someone in my household who watches our server. That’s it folks. I’ve been a hold out for a long time, but this is honestly it.

They want me to pay to stream content that I bought from my hardware transcoded also on my hardware.

I’ll say it. As of today, I say Plex is dead. Luckily I’ve been setting up Jellyfin, I guess it’s time to make it production ready.

Edit I have a Plex Pass. More comments saying “Just buy a plex pass” are seriously not getting it. I have a Plex Pass and my users are still getting this.

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    plex should consider that local, because now your traffic goes through that network, and reaches computers and services on that network. except if it relies on broadcasts, because wireguard does not forward broadcasts, but even with jellyfin that only affects automatic server discovery and DLNA, if you type in the URL it will work

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      Yes, so then OPs issue with Plex charging for remote streaming are irrelevant.

      By nature of setting up Wireguard for Jellyfin, you’ve eliminated the entire purpose of switching to Jellyfin in the first place.

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        you’ve eliminated the entire purpose of switching to Jellyfin in the first place.

        if we are only looking at this issue, then yes

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          Outside of ideological reasons or fears of further enshittification, is there anything Jellyfin does better? (Honest question)

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            I’d say hw enc/dec, flexibility on the UI, and plugins still being an options are the big ones.

            Along with not having to disable online media sources. Also not having to deal with cert pinning is a major benefit too. No external outage breaks your use.