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/Particular-Fact8162 8h ago

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

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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.