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It's so weird though. Do they not know it exists? Do they expect their customers not to know it exists?
When your primary competition is free (and arguably better), the last thing one should think to do is raise prices.
I can only assume that some C-suites are looking at numbers and don't know what else to do but make the product more expensive.
Jellyfin isn’t arguably better, especially for some of tne main things people use Plex for - remote streaming and library sharing. Jellyfin pretty much doesn’t support them.
How?
The argument for Plex is their catalogue.
No, the argument for plex is that it's easy and widely supported. It has an app on every device in existence, and a new user can be streaming from a friends server remotely within minutes of asking for access, with no VPN or IP whitelisting or any other workaround required. Secure, fast, easy.
What platform doesn’t support Jellyfin?
The rest of that applies to Jellyfin as well, I just give you the url and the account details then you’re good to go.
But what about this? I can spin up a Docker image of Plex, log in, and it just works. My tech illiterate family members and friends can access it and I don't have to deal with setting all of these other items up. Plex will just use UPnP out of the box whereas I'd need to set up DLNA or some other means to get remote Jellyfin access working.
Maybe I am wrong but this is why myself and others opt to just use Plex for family and friends and Jellyfin locally. 🙂
If it's in your own LAN then there's no setup. Just point to the internal IP after spinning up the docker image.
Sure but that's not the scenario I was describing. Internally on my LAN is fine but I share Plex with friends and family throughout the world. Plex setup just works whereas Jellyfin requires more.
More work to port forward?
While I could go through doing that, I personally do not want to have it be my public IP address and that port. I would want to set up a reverse proxy with HTTPS and a domain or something if that sort.
90% of the TVs out there. Not everyone has an android tv.
What url are you giving me for jellyfin? You’ve exposed jellyfin to the open internet? You know how stupid that is?
You think 90% of TVs don't use Roku, webOS, Android, or Apple?
No different than exposing any other port service, like Plex for example. However it's my reverse proxy.
No, they don’t.
Very different to that, actually. Someone with this poor knowledge of networking absolutely should not be exposing their server to the open internet.