KatherinaReichelt@feddit.org to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoPlex’s price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfinwww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square324linkfedilinkarrow-up1771arrow-down128
arrow-up1743arrow-down1external-linkPlex’s price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfinwww.androidauthority.comKatherinaReichelt@feddit.org to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square324linkfedilink
minus-squareCouldbealeotard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agoYou can get around this by extending your network with a VPN. I know that’s an extra config, but a lot of people who are setting up home labs are already doing this anyway. How does jellyfin offer remote streaming without a VPN?
minus-squareTh3D3k0y@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 days agoIt has User accounts and have people access with a login through port forwarding. myIPaddress:8383 effectively, which directs to my movie NAS I tried to do a VPN with Tailscale and just couldn’t wrap my head around it.
minus-squareCouldbealeotard@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agoSo, it sounds like it doesn’t offer a remote streaming service like Plex then. You just publicly expose or use a VPN like you can with Plex.
You can get around this by extending your network with a VPN. I know that’s an extra config, but a lot of people who are setting up home labs are already doing this anyway.
How does jellyfin offer remote streaming without a VPN?
It has User accounts and have people access with a login through port forwarding. myIPaddress:8383 effectively, which directs to my movie NAS
I tried to do a VPN with Tailscale and just couldn’t wrap my head around it.
So, it sounds like it doesn’t offer a remote streaming service like Plex then. You just publicly expose or use a VPN like you can with Plex.