Important 2025 Plex Updates
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Personal Media and Beyond You’re going to be hearing a lot from us this year—we’ve got a ton of exciting...

We are also changing how remote playback works for streaming personal media (that is, playback when not on the same local network as the server). The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature. This—alongside the new Plex Pass pricing—will help provide those resources. This change will apply to the future release of our new Plex experience for mobile and other platforms.

  • SirSamuel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    11 hours ago

    Hmmm, i use a Synology NAS with Jellyfin installed and my family can use their Roku TVs without issue. I didn’t realize Synology made a difference there

    • thisNotMyName@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      11 hours ago

      It totally depends on how you expose it to the outside world. If it’s exposed just like it is, it works fine with every device. If you put an authentication before it (e.g. Authelia), it can only be accessed by browsers from outside the network. That being said, it’s not recommended to expose Jellyfin directly, because there are a ton of security flaws. Best practice is to use a VPN

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        it can only be accessed by browsers from outside the network.

        Weird.
        If I nslookup my jellyfin URL it responds with an IP in my local IP range…
        And it works both outside with a 2FA page and inside without…