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An Intel CPU with quicksync is the better and way more energy efficient solution for transcoding. A regular 8th gen+ i7 can handle multiple 4k transcodes

No, I’m complaining about people who act like Jellyfin is a drop in replacement while ignoring everything that would make it harder to user than Plex. I like Jellyfin and I would like nothing better than to have it as my disposal should POlex actually turn evil one day. But the current state is just not feasible if you want a seamless transition.

I live in a country with a very active and litigious copyright lawyer scene, so I will not take the risk of my server exposing the contents of my library, even if that is a minor risk.

When I can run Jellyfin and expose it through a subdomain, I will. But the devs have made it clear that that won’t be anytime soon, since they would rather have an insecure app than break compatibility with clients

And if you can wipe the foam from your mouth for a second, you’ll notice I wrote ‘software’ not network.

But in the end all you’re here for is a pad on the back from the Jellyfin guys for “seeing the light”. So you do you and maybe I won’t have to read more of you Plex posts, since you’re now in happy Jellyfin land

But somehow it’s still Plex’s fault

And I would suggest learning how to configure your software before coming here and stirring shit. But we can’t always get what we want

So instead of a service that works, I now have:

• an inferior (and incomplete) client experience, unless I spend money
• an additional device to allow the client to connect to Jellyfin, because I can’t safely expose it to the internet
• the responsibility to keep all that additional stuff working for myself and everyone of my friends/family members

sounds like a great deal

It’s also always the Jellyfin fans that get emotional about this. Liking Plex is like a cardinal sin to them and I should be happy to migrate my entire viewership to a new solutions that requires them to install a vpn client on their device.

Every post I see here about Plex is some variation of Gotcha! or Schadenfreude where they expect everyone to say, “oh no, guess I’ll pack it up and start fresh”

security

If you don’t set it to host, the docker container is in a different ip range than your tv. That’s why it assumes it’s not in the same network (which it isn’t)

I have a Philipps OLED TV from 2019, with Android 9 or smth. But WebOS is a different beast.

Well, just because they closed the issue (without resolving it), doesn’t mean it does not speak to their views on security and client breaking changes

The issue is their approach to security. I don’t trust them to properly secure their software, since they have proven to prefer client compatibility over security.

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415

They argue against most suggestion with the notion, that existing clients can’t handle authentication. The devs prefer working clients over a properly secured backend.

You can now extrapolate this idea and every major change that would change the way the API is accessed by clients will be stopped for the sake of continued client compatibility.

Yeah, but since you basically need a VPN to share Jellyfin safely, you now also need to install and maintain that on their end

I will not make myself the tech guy for half my friends and family, just because I can’t share Jellyfin safely without a vpn

Also the people that know how to set that all up and still expose a Jellyfin server to the public internet

Because Jellyfin users like to feel superior. Accepting that other people have other requirements from software is hard, especially when you feel like you choice is the only valid one.

As a long time Plex user, who has a Jellyfin running in parallel, just not shared, I will keep using Plex until they either force me off of it or Jellyfin manages to make accessing servers remotely easier and more secure.

Yeah, first thing I did after testing the new app. Still don’t know why they feel the need to push this out so aggressively instead of letting it run in parallel until its ready

If you have not set up a VPN for accessing your Jellyfin, I would suggest looking into the myriad of security issues the Jellyfin Backend has. Jellyfin has no business being accessible from the public internet

If they adhered to somewhat modern security principles for their Backend I wouldn’t mind hosting it behind a reverse proxy. But since large parts of the API is unauthorized and unprotected, I wont.

And I do not plan on supporting family and friends in setting up vpns on all of their devices