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Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April (www.plex.tv)

submitted 4 months ago by Sl00k@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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We are also changing how remote playback works for streaming personal media (that is, playback when not on the same local network as the server). The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature. This—alongside the new Plex Pass pricing—will help provide those resources. This change will apply to the future release of our new Plex experience for mobile and other platforms.

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[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Universal media server works for me. I run it headless on a small instance. Streams my movies and music just fine.

[–] barraformat@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you want to keep using plex and remote it’s important to you, they usually have pretty good deals on pass from time to time. I don’t regret my lifetime pass - I still feel like it’s a pretty solid app and service all things considered- but if I didn’t have the pass already I would be a bit pissed as well ngl.

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[–] Sabin10@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hypothetically, if I have tailscale setup, would that be a viable workaround since everything looks local on my tailnet?

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[–] gigglybastard@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I never got the appeal of plex. I've been using Serviio back in the day and it was free, open source and did what I needed it to, which is play a video on tv, that's it.

Plex wanted me to purchase subscription years ago and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out how to set it up for free.

I've been using stremio for a few years now but i think it's closing in on the EOL as well, so i might go back to serviio and kodi one of these days. Just need a good NAS that could run a streaming server as well. Don't want to keep my gaming rig on at all times just to watch movies.

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