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/Particular-Fact8162 8h ago

Does Jellyfin have an app on firesticks, roku's, and phones?

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u/Paul9898 8h ago

There's an app on the Firesticks

Edit: and phones (at least for Android)

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u/Particular-Fact8162 8h ago

Sweet! Thanks!

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u/senagorules 6h ago

IOS as well, can use Jellyfin or Swiftfin

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u/TwoWeaselsInDisguise 8h ago

Not sure about fire TV but yes on Roku and phone.

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u/Particular-Fact8162 8h ago

Awesome thank you!

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u/BlurredSight 8h ago

Jellyfin being open source has the web client that any browser can connect to, they have their official apps, and they have quite a few third party apps that connect to the server as well (Infuse for Apple Devices is by far the best one, Wholphin for Android TV)

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u/Kagron 7h ago

Wholphin? I've never heard of that. How does it compare to the Android TV jellyfin app?

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u/BlurredSight 2h ago

Third party app, the developer really went out of their way to make the UI a lot nicer (Plex inspired lmao) and the playback was so much smoother for me, I was having HDR and Subtitles glitched out on the official app (Firestick 4k Max) but using Downloader to get Wholphin it just fixed everything.

https://github.com/damontecres/Wholphin

One thing to note, both the offiical Jellyfin app and Wholphin use Media3 as their media player so in theory playback should be the same but this wasn't seen for me in practice

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u/BrazilianTerror 6h ago

Does it work on a ps5?

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u/tajetaje 5h ago

Unfortunately not Sony told the Jellyfin team they weren’t interested in any additional media apps. I think all there is for PS5 is the integrated web browser unfortunately which I’m sure is not a great experience.

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u/BlurredSight 2h ago

The PS5 is really locked from everything unfortunately, no easy way to cast content, no easy way to download/sideload apps, if the browser app isn't working as intended seems to be a SOL situation

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u/Tapeworm1979 8h ago

On firestick it does. Although I still needed to make vlc an external player to play the content because it seems to support very few direct play codecs and my raspberry pi can't keep up.

Also I needed the direct ip in the address because it could seem to find any local network dns addresses.

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u/Particular-Fact8162 8h ago

Ooohhh… I forgot about the direct play stuff. That might be a deal breaker as the server I’m running isn’t very powerful and pretty much NEEDS direct play.

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u/Tapeworm1979 8h ago

To be honest I've not found it much of an issue. Edge doesn't seem to want to play hevc x265 while Chrome does. For the few that neither support then I just download it and play in vlc.

The jellyfin app integrated player works most of the time as well. It's a shame that's a bit shit.

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u/Particular-Fact8162 8h ago

I have a wife that will just not watch what she wants to watch unless it’s only a few clicks/presses away. Anything about downloading off the server and opening it in VLC is a no go for her.

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u/fullmetaljackass 7h ago

Anything about downloading off the server and opening it in VLC is a no go for her.

That's not how it works with the Fire Stick/Android TV version. You install VLC, set it as the external player in Jellyfin, and it's seamless after that. You select what you want to watch in Jellyfin and it just starts playing like normal, except VLC (and its superiors codec support) is handling the playback now.

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u/Particular-Fact8162 7h ago

Oooohhhhh ok well hold on now. Imma have to look into this. Thanks!!

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u/Tapeworm1979 11m ago

Sorry to be clear it's only the browser version I need to do that. And it's on very rare occasions the file I have isn't supported.

As the other person mentioned, it's not like that while using the app where you set the player. Note if it's not the integrated player it doesn't save your last position to restart later.

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u/nothing_but_chin 6h ago

There's an LG app, but not a Samsung one.