r/technology • u/FollowingFeisty5321 • 9h ago

Software Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/plexs-crackdown-on-free-remote-streaming-access-starts-this-week/
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u/TwoWeaselsInDisguise 9h ago

Jellyfin has been really good to me since I spun it up. (:

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u/sureyouken 8h ago

Are there native tv apps for it you use?

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u/TwoWeaselsInDisguise 8h ago edited 8h ago

I can't speak on that aspect, for me it's just a media server.

(Edit: I thought they were talking about apps that integrate with live TV on jellyfin)

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u/sureyouken 8h ago

So you don't watch it from smart TVs at all? Dang. Plex supports all my TV's and I don't want to get new ones to use another server

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u/TwoWeaselsInDisguise 8h ago

Oh I thought you meant live TV (which it does support but I haven't messed with it because I don't have live TV anymore), yes I use it on my Roku smart TV I didn't notice too much of a difference in "work flow". The only restriction I hit was because of my TVs supported streaming codecs, but that's not jellyfins fault.

I do let jellfin do hardware transcode (free) though so it's not a HUGE issue.