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goodbye plex (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)

after almost 15yrs my plex server is no more. jellyfin behind nginx with authentik is running very nicely.

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[-] aeharding@vger.social 8 points 2 hours ago

Right? Jellyfin is awesome

[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 hours ago

Wouldn’t containers make more sense for some of these rather than full blown VMs?

[-] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 9 points 11 hours ago
[-] gerowen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

It is the command line interface for libvirt/qemu/kvm on Linux. I usually just use virt-manager remotely via SSH to create and manage my VMs, but virsh can be handy as well.

[-] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 8 points 11 hours ago

command-line virtual machine manager

[-] wheezy@lemmy.ml 33 points 18 hours ago

Plex still good for the boys that bought the lifetime pass. I understand why people would change. But it's still the best plug and play option. Waiting until they break the "lifetime" thing and fuck us over.

[-] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 hours ago

Didn't that already happen? Or am I misremembering?

[-] fishpen0@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

Mostly not yet. They did restrict the bandwidth on relay, but anyone with half a brain can open a port and that still allows apps to direct connect without relay. Honestly I wish could just force it to never relay since randomly my iPad will use relay even when I’m on the same network but that’s more because the new iOS app since the rewrite is dogshit.

Lifetime pass since 2012 here.

[-] droans@midwest.social 1 points 2 hours ago

I'm pretty certain that you can turn Relay off in your account settings.

[-] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Hmm I don't like dogshit. Nobody ever seems to clean it up.

[-] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 13 points 21 hours ago

I am still using Kodi. It is feeling a bit long in the tooth in current year, but I can’t complain. I tried Plex because chromecasting is a feature I would love. Sadly it didn’t support the ISOs of my 1:1 rips. Maybe it does now (I stopped waiting for them years ago). As for Jellyfin, they seem to have an anti-ISO stance. One of the devs seemingly (or someone claiming to be a contributor) said I should convert all my media to a more modern format and make my own menus because it would be fun. Oh well, Kodi it is.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 14 points 20 hours ago

i've never heard of anyone that keeps dvd menus around. like, i get it for archival purposes but i would never want to actually navigate a menu when i want to watch something. in my mind it's like sitting through the commercials on a rented vhs. i would probably store a converted copy as well, in a format that would let me specify from the application what track and subtitle i want so i can set a default.

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 15 hours ago
[-] lime@feddit.nu 9 points 13 hours ago

maybe it's because i grew up with vhs first but dvd always felt like a lot of hassle compared to just "put it in and watch"

[-] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago

Blu-ray menus do kind of suck, but they are still mostly good enough to make all the supplemental material accessible (assuming the studio bothered to provide any anymore). But DVD menus (at least during that earlier golden age) add a layer to the experience I never knew I had been missing.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show has some dancing fishnet legs and sexyhorror lips dancing around. You get to see so many extras and choose two versions of the movie and AND a secret Easter egg third version. A smorgasbord. Same for Terminator 2: two good versions of the movie and that lame Star Trek-ish ending one was hidden and I love having the option to not watch it. Plus many more. Fight Club is the only one I can think of to make use of that camera angle swapping button. The DVD versions of Dragon’s Lair and Space Ace wouldn’t work any other way.

Perfect way to kill time when others go for a last minute toilet visit or decide to make popcorn. I am not going to the trouble of transcoding my entire library to get less.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 4 points 19 hours ago

i ripped all my dvds specifically to get rid of the menus because they were slow, hard to use, and full of frustrating animations. they usually just felt like an afterthought.

i've never been one to be swayed by extras, it usually just feels akin to jingling keys to get me to buy shit. maybe i'm weird.

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[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 68 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've been using jellyfin for years.

My best recommendation is DELAY UPDATES and back up before you update.

I have a history of updates breaking everything so you should be careful about them.

All software recommends backing up before an update, but for jellyfin the shit is real, you really want to back up.

[-] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago

I have Jellyfin running for years too and it has never broken for me, I use Linuxserver image, so maybe they delay the updates a bit?... Now, Immich has broken so many times that nowadays is the only docker I don't keep at latest (and I know using latest is a bad practice, I understand the reasons, but the convenience of not worrying about the versions beats all that for me)

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago
[-] MvPts@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

Updating immich brings excitement into my life :)

[-] Lyricism6055@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I've had mine on latest for about a year and I haven't noticed any issues... I have a cron job that pulls it every night too

[-] maxprime@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 hours ago

It’s funny, I’ve heard this so many times. And read through the docs. But I’m a mad lad who has auto updates (I know!) and have never had an issue with Immich.

[-] Lem453@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've been using jelly since just after the emby fork and never had an update issue on docker. Automatic snapshots every 5 mins (amoung other backup tools). means I don't need to worry much if it does.

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[-] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 111 points 1 day ago

Welcome to the jelly. ONE OF US. ONE OF US.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 4 points 2 hours ago

Gooble gobble

[-] jia_tan 3 points 18 hours ago

ONE OF US. ONE OF US.

i love jellyfin i just wish there was a nicer way to highlight collections so you could make themed weekly or monthly collections of movies and shows that also still show up in the regular folders.... almost like netflix.

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[-] mlg@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Does jellyfin do untranscoded video/audio?

Haven't used it in years but finally building up my media server again and I remember it had some funky settings for hardware encoding back then which I didn't need because I was connecting to it via a repurposed gaming laptop that could easily handle 4k content and surround sound by itself.

[-] treyf711@eviltoast.org 16 points 1 day ago

I use jellyfin for unencoded audio and video on my clients that support it like my newer television, but I also use transcoded audio video on things that can't handle the higher codecs like the raspberry pi.

[-] macstainless@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 1 day ago

I've heard jellyfin has a lot of security issues, which I don't know if that's accurate or not. But the BIGGEST issue is lack of a proper tvOS app. I really don't feel like using Infuse or some other app just to use my library. Year after year I hear about people switching and yet, the gap is simply still there.

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[-] Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

I want to leave too, but I really like PlexAmp for my music streaming. And no, Finamp doesn't work nearly as well or look as nice.

[-] Lyricism6055@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Finamp is good for android and has a flatpak

[-] blitzen@lemmy.ca 4 points 21 hours ago

PlexAmp is so good. Nothing else comes close.

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