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Re:End the Streaming Struggle with Plex by ineptech on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @03:18PM (#30923624)
Ditto. Plex was great but I'm not creating a web account to use local open source software that decided to be something else.
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Re:End the Streaming Struggle with Plex by ASalazarMX on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @05:53PM (#30925526)
Can't emphasize this more: Plex was awesome compared to the alternatives years ago. XBMC (Kodi now) was my goto, but all media was played locally, Plex not only transcoded and streamed, it has native clients even for smart TVs.

I'm still annoyed that by default it requires a login to their cloud to stream locally, which I found when my Internet failed and Plex refused to stream locally. Also the useless third-party stream channels, and the insistence on enabling DRM on Firefox when none of my media needs it to play.

I've installed Jellyfin in parallel, and I agree it lacks polishing compared to Plex, but it gets the job done without getting in your way.

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Re:End the Streaming Struggle with Plex by flatiron on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @07:19PM (#30926416)
As you said it’s not the default but a simple check box to disable local auth.
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Re:End the Streaming Struggle with Plex by ASalazarMX on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @08:57PM (#30927116)
It a bit more complex, you have to go to

Settings | Network | List of IP addresses and networks that are allowed without auth

And add your local LAN range, like 192.168.1.0/24

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Re:End the Streaming Struggle with Plex by branon on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @05:10PM (#30925083)
The Plex software that you'd be running on your local machine (server) is closed-source/nonfree anyway, so yeah.

Jellyfin is a much nicer alternative.

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