Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"?

deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• kandykarter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m a Jellyfin Server Guy, and same deal. Around a dozen friends & fam, no charge.

  I’m not sure why needing transcoding would keep you off Jellyfin though, Jellyfin transcodes just fine.

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  • CAVOK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    How do you share it? I assume you don’t expose it to the Internet as is?

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    • irelephant@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      iirc you can set a username and password 

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      • CAVOK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You can, but it’s also not a very hardened piece of software so relying on just that isn’t recommended.

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• hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Does Jellyfin not do transcoding? I’ve been using it with transcoding for almost two years, so if it doesn’t, man that’s gonna be quite the shock.

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It definitely does do transcoding.

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  • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I dunno, maybe it didn’t when I was first setting up my server a few years back. It doesn’t have Plexamp though and that’s a deal breaker.

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    • Buffalobuffalo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It has finamp though right

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      • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Doesn’t have the excellent Plexamp automix nor ability to add all my friends shares to my radio stations.

        I appreciate the efforts but I’m very happy with my current setup.

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• thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m that guy as well, but can’t get family to use it. So when they complain they can’t steam something, I just ignore them. I do it for myself, they just get it because. But I’m not going to keep offering, fuck it. Go spend your money on shitty atreing services. I’ve got 7000 movies now and almost 300 series.

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  • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m specifically doing this to get family and friends to cancel their streaming subscriptions. Not to save them money, to hurt the corporations more than I can do just myself.

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    • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Can’t make someone do something they don’t want to, even if it benefits them financially. I stopped trying.

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      • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        True that. I don’t pressure them into it.

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  • myrmidex@belgae.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I love wireguard for this. If they can’t get that working, then no jellyfin for them. Filters out the PEBKAC people wonderfully.

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    • overload@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Thanks for introducing me to PEBKAC, great term.

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      • TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I just learned the expression “layer 8 problem”

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• randombullet@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m transcoding on a HD770 without an issue on jellyfin.

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• AZX3RIC@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’ve been wondering about this, how does hiding the activity from your ISP, as well as the ISP of the person streaming from your server, work?

  I have friends I’d like to share my library with but am always nervous about the risk.

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  • kungen@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Why would that matter? It just looks like HTTPS traffic if you set it up right. And even if they fingerprint it as Plex, they can’t see what exactly is playing. Yes, my Plex library only has public domain content of course.

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  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Https traffic will be enough to hide your streaming activity. They’ll be able to see that you’re streaming something based off of the traffic patterns, but won’t be able to see what specifically is being streamed.

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  • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    With P2P file sharing, your client is sharing the files with random people on the internet and you’re identified by your IP address (or a VPN IP address / seedbox IP address / etc). MPAA hires companies to check for popular content and log the IP address, time, and content shared, and then sends that to the ISP. The risk and issue is sharing content with anyone randomly, since that is how your ISP is informed of the activity.

    With media servers, unless you’re somehow sharing publicly, it’s safe to assume your members aren’t going to report you to your ISP. I guess in theory the ISP could see high upload bandwidth and investigate, but more likely than not, if there are limits, automated systems will just throttle the bandwidth, and no deep packet inspection or other forensics is performed.

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  • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    HTTPS

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