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

submitted 11 months ago by ButtonMcLemming@lemmy.world to c/fucksubscriptions@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27204525

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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[–] PoopingCough@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I know jellyfin has apps on Android phone and Android TV at the very least.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Also WebOS, running Jellyfin at home and watching on my LG TV and my Android phone just fine.

I've used Plex for about a decade now and I've just recently had enough. Jellyfin surpasses Plex now.

Plex is slow AF on the same TV where Jellyfin just flies. Plex is doing some fuckery. Even the TV's screensaver is laggy when Plex is the foreground app on my TV, so Plex seems like it's doing something weird in the background. Like a while-true loop just eating cycles or some shit.

What made me finally lose it is twofold.

The performance of Plex is dogshit. Laggy UI everywhere you click. Every single interaction is sluggish as hell. Jellyfin is snappy on the same TV. (Android not affected, only WebOS that I've seen.)
Plex on WebOS cannot select the correct audio track for media with multiple audio tracks. I select my language, it plays English. I select any language but English, it plays English.
Bonus reason: The Plex forums are dead. Not a single Plex employee answers the threads with these issues anymore. People have been reporting the audio track bug for like between 5 and 10 years, bro. Nothing being done about it. Several reports. Nothing. No reply.
Bonus reason 2: the recent enshittification described here. Open source software trumps this corporate shite all day.

I told Plex in the forums, I'm done. I'm moving to Jellyfin and I'm not going back to Plex later on to try again. I was this close 🤏 to being a lifetime Plex customer if these things were fixed, but it only got worse and worse.

So... BYE!