And fuck. I really miss plex. I’ve had Netflix and Hulu forever as family won’t let me cancel. Decided to sign up to Paramount + for some Trek. Twice in lower decks it didn’t save my watched episodes. Doesn’t mark episode as watched if you exit during the credits. And multiple playback issues.
Wanted to add no ad Disney to the Hulu for some Doctor Who. Only the add supported is available through Hulu. So I’d have to cancel, wait for the month to end and sign up via Disney. Deal with ads or pay almost double the duo plan costs, or include ESPN, and honestly fuck sports.
What is so difficult about just providing a decent service for a fair price? Why is plex like a decade ahead of the streaming UI’s? I’m trying to give you fucks money and you’re making it extremely difficult.
It cannot get better and it will definitely get worse.
Paying for enshittified services is not really “doing the right thing”. It only encourages further enshittification.
A new PC will cost you far less in the long term.
I’m working on it. Pretty sure it’s down to CPU, GPU or motherboard. I have an old gtx 660 that I’m going to try. Then probably buy a new MB and see if that helps. Really hope it’s not CPU or GPU as they’re a 5900x and 2080Super. Not exactly cheap replacements.
Have you got a buddy with a computer you can test components with? Might help you speed up the troubleshooting process?
If I have to, I can canabilize the kids pc for parts. It’s my old ryzen 3600 and gtx 970. Trying to avoid doing that if I can.
Not to say cannibalize but perhaps one night just test their parts on your board or vice versa to figure out what component in yours has bitten the dust so you can understand what you need to replace and budget/save accordingly.
Hope you get it sorted soon, friend. I couldn’t live without my Plex server.
If it’s not the GPU I’m almost positive it’s CPU or mobo. It’s hard locking anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour. No heat issues.
I’ve fresh installed windows 10, 11 and tried pop os. Pop froze twice during install. Disconnected everything except the ssd, GPU and a single stick of ram. Update bios. Tried both sticks of ram individually in slot 2 where it’s supposed to go and slot 3, which still freezes and tells me I’m a dumb ass for not reading the manual for ram location. Tried installing windows on a hdd. Ram memetest86, sfc, ssd check through the bios etc.
Wish my CPU had onboard graphics to narrow that out, but I’ll try the old GPU I have. At that point I guess I could throw my CPU in the kids pc and see if there’s issues, but will probably just buy a mobo and see.
Don’t count out the power supply, it can cause that issue as well.
Family won’t let you cancel? Cancel anyway. Let them pay for it.
Ahoy, FlavoredButtHair truly embodies the pirate ethos
Jellyfin + Sonarr/Radarr + Bittorrent = free personal netflix with infinite logins.
I gave logins to my whole family over the holidays and now they can watch anything they want. They just text me the name of the movie and it’s up there in 2 minutes.
Streaming is becoming just as bad as cable was. I’m done playing their games.
Hulu literally has adds on their PAID subscription… People are getting WAY too used to being butt fucked by these companiesedit: I used this guide to set it all up: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/5911487
Ombi or Overseerr (I prefer Overseerr) will let them do requests automatically. Overseerr uses Plex logins so you don’t need to manage additional passwords for them.
You can have Overseerr sync Plex watchlists so they don’t even need to use Overseerr, just add what they want to their Plex watchlist.
I have a similar setup but only use it in my own home. I’m just curious, how do you share to your family? Do they watch exclusively on Mobile/Web (or maybe casting) or do you also push for them to pick-up some form of Android TV or something else that supports the Jellyfin app?
I could share to my family but I don’t want to have to babysit them and I know unless it’s incredibly simple, they won’t bother with it or they’ll both me with it every time.
Most already had Android TV built into their TVs, but I gifted a couple of them $20 Walmart Android TVs. Even changed what the Paramount and Disney buttons open up for them. They all got their own logins so our ‘recently watched’ and ‘continue watching’ is separate
I’m in love with the customization in Android TV, I even have it controlling my lights so I can dim them all with a button on the remote
You can cast from the Jellyfin app too, but it’s not as nice.
People need to be more educated when it comes to VPN and piracy. Your setup is pretty awesome with that combo.
The Plex pass pays for itself.
The Plex pass pays for itself.
Never had to pay for my Jellyfin install beyond a donation.
What’s the up and downs for Jellyfin?
Try it out yourself and see what bothers you.
Some couldnt care less about features that are the sole reason they chose a platform.
And Jellyfin can be used together with plex until you decide they ditch either of them.casting from the app is not perfect, but using the Android TV app is flawless
You can setup Overseer to manage requests and even sync Plex watchlists so that literally all they have to do is add something to their watchlist.
There is a Jellyseerr which might work the same way.
Do you torrent directly from your jellyfin box or do you have a seedbox that then sync to jellyfin?
I want to do a jellyfin setup, and wondering if I want a seedbox or directly torrent.
If you are in a trigger happy country the 2nd option or with a vpn.
If your country couldnt care less the 1st.Seedbox then. Don’t need to worry then
Yes and no.
Seedboxes with proper storage and a good service are hard to come by. Even more if you want public trackers.
My 2TB costs me 16€ because I have an old service plan but seedbox.io was one of the rare options to allow public and their support is honestly amazing and quick to respond and fix.
Much faster than myself in responding to tickets :pThanks for the info, I will look into that.
I used this exact guide: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/5911487, I have Jackett and QBittorrent on the same Linux server as Jellyfin. Files are moved automatically into the media folders after downloads complete
Are you in a country where ISP are forwarding your information to the copyright holders?
I will check the link. Thanks
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Yeah, I can’t find some kid shows, maybe I have the wrong provider.
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Enshittification getting stankier everywhere
Bro just buy an optiplex off ebay and go back to plex.
Everyone here who has used Plex has had fuck ups. Between finding corrupt movie files, Plex messing up meta data, or forgetting where I am in a movie (and between multiple devices this is especially bad); my list of Plex/xbmc fuck ups would far outpace any issues I have with the services.
In general most of the streaming services work just fine and have most features you need.
The biggest issue by far is the need for $140 in streaming services to get what you want. I’m probably just going back to cable IMO.
Idk if I’m just lucky, but I’ve been running Plex on Linux for years without any major issue. Occasionally I had to hit things with a chmod, but that stopped being an issue after I changed a setting in qbittorrent, and that isn’t really Plex’s fault.
Rarely, if it is transcoding something and I pause for a long time, I may have to stop it and play it again to get the transcoder running again. It is a very minor issue that I barely ever think about unless I’m traveling.
Does it run differently on Windows or something?
Thanks for a great motivational speech, I already was against all corpo streaming services, but now I’m going turbo-mode on building a new Jellyfin server with all my media to stream whenever I want :)
I just made the switch last month. Even my partner doesn’t touch his beloved Apple TV anymore. We’ll never go back.
Lol once you taste the forbidden fruit of media freedom, everything else tastes sour.
I have been using this Mini PC as an always on running Kodi for over a year. Up to 4K resolution.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0B2C1GL48?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title
I’ve got a slightly older (8th Gen Intel) off lease dell micro in my living room, mostly for early ed games for my kids. A quick user switch and it’s steam time for me.
Cost me about $150, then I tossed about $75 in upgrades, roughly 2 years ago.
Ultra small form factor PCs like this and the beelink are fantastic options. I’ve got a stack of them running all of my home services.
I love it and it is so quiet.
Exactly.
Most of these units don’t need (or have) a fan (except for the ones with like an Nvidia quadro in them, but those I keep in my rack for other purposes, like tdarr and work stuff)
Plenty of power for proxmox, containers, whatever. Intel QSV is fantastic for Jellyfin and Plex transcoding, I’d say 7th Gen and up is plenty for most people.
Really any of these little units are well worth it. I’ve got some older ones (4th-6th Gen Intel) doing other duties, like being testbeds, managing backup storage, etc.
I’ve coincidentally bought this machine for similar purpose, arriving tomorrow.
I’m intending to install a Linux KDE environment on it and use it as a living room PC, steam Linux machine, stream from my PC for 4k gaming, and a Jellyfin /Kodi box. I could probably keep windows 11 on it but I prefer the privacy and control I get with Linux plus it’ll be a fun little project.
Was on sale for £270 here, and looks overpowered for what OP’d need.
Raspberry Pi 5 is also available for like £80 and that’s capable for 4k video (although frustratingly the web browsers aren’t able to take advantage of hardware video accel from my tinkering; you have to use dedicated apps like Kodi, freetube etc). That could also be a viable route for Plex / Jellyfin / Kodi machine media server and player or even just server.
Edit: worth point out a raspberry Pi costs the same as 10 months of just Disney+ without ads. Once you throw in other streaming subscriptions… May pay for itself much sooner…
I read on the Jellyfin site that the Pi5 has no hardware encoders…
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration
Since I’m only streaming locally (on a Pi4) I don’t need to record anything but still.
Just find an old desktop PC and install Plex on it?
Check my profile for a media share option, if you would rather not dive into the technical aspects yourself. Ditch the enshittified media services and improve your life for the better.
I’m lazy. I just open fmovies on my phone and cast to my TV.
My family still requires a couple of the services too, although they’re decreasing their usage because they love Jellyfin so much. I just had to say that the Paramount+ app is utter garbage, especially in Apple TV. Most annoying was if you triggered the left hand menu by simply trying to navigate to the left then you weren’t allowed to exit the menu without making a selection. They also deleted it ignored my watch history so the time too. Also fuck all their forced ads on ad free versions. Just because you call it a promo because it’s an ad for your service doesn’t make it less of an ad. That’s what killed it for me. $173 12th gen i-3 mini pc off Amazon+Jellyfin and I haven’t touched the Apple TV in six weeks. No problems encoding anything even 10bit outside my house. Love it.
Isn’t Dr. Who on Max? That’s where I’ve been watching it.
The newest episodes with Tennant are on Disney, most of the 2005 series is on max from what I understand.
Oh so like just the 60th anniversary then.
I think going forward it’s Disney. So the 60th specials and the next season with Ncuti Gatwa as the Dr.
Oh gotcha, well it’s a good thing I can use my brother-in-laws account lol.
Why not use Plex if you love it so much?
