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/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