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Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by otters_raft@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee.

If anyone needs it: https://jellyfin.org/

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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I set up Jellyfin on my mother-in-law's TV, it's just push play.

My mum has an Apple TV (the device, not the subscription) and on there she uses swiftfin. The only issue has been sound not working on certain audio tracks on certain movies, but in general it is easy for anyone.

Both are very familiar interfaces for anyone used to playing something from a streaming service.

[–] matchbook1498@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not sure about swiftfin but try the option downmix to stereo somewhere in the client playback settings

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, I didn't manage to find many options in swiftfin, you don't know if I can enforce it for a user from the server side?

[–] matchbook1498@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That will be transcoding so from the server side make sure it's enabled and working. Then you can limit the bitrate (per-user, or globally)

This way the client will stream the content and not direct play it.

Hopefully this fixes the issue with audio.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 7 months ago

I think I tried this when troubleshooting and didn't notice a difference. Nevermind, I pretty easily taught her how to bring up the menu and switch audio streams so she can solve it herself now.