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Re: Plex: Important notice of a potential data breach

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Post by jjcon » Sun, Aug 28, 2022, 7:31 PM UTC

nerdjon wrote: post #107

Ugh, I feel like this is being a regular thing I need to look at with Plex... Has anyone tried any alternatives that have a decent Apple TV client? I have tried looking a couple times over the last couple years and that is always my blocking point. Ideally not a third party one, I know Jellyfin has a third party option but it always seems to have issues on my library and needs to update its cache (or something) and m…

I’ll second this - complicating things is all the third party apps I use with Plex (for music, audiobooks etc). I’d love to switch to jellyfin but they aren’t going to have an ecosystem like this any time soon

Re: Plex: Important notice of a potential data breach

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Post by jaimex2 » Mon, Aug 29, 2022, 1:15 AM UTC

Arainach wrote: post #126

jaimex2 wrote: post #79

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Kodis always been the better option if you're remotely technical.

I ran Kodi for years, but "always"? * Kodi only works on my local network. It requires exposing my file shares on whatever VLAN my Kodi devices are on. * Kodi is a pain to configure. To point it at the aforementioned file shares, I need to copy an XML configuration file, and getting this onto every device is a chicken and egg problem. * Kodi requires each client to scan and sync the entire library at its CPU and band…

I don't think you fall into the remotely technical category group.

Kodi can do all those things but you wouldn't as it has much better options to achieve the same result.

Re: Plex: Important notice of a potential data breach

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Post by seanw444 » Tue, Aug 30, 2022, 2:24 PM UTC

silicon2401 wrote: post #169

seanw444 wrote: post #119

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From a comment further up, Jellyfin has an open issue on GitHub with a list of various security problems (most if not all of which come from Emby when they forked off of it). At least they're open about it, and working on it. It seems like running it on the public net might be a bad idea for the time being. But running it internally should be just fine. I personally run Jellyfin, and aside from security issues, I'm q…

Thanks for your response. If I set up Jellyfin just to run at home, without any need for connecting in from off-site, should I be okay security-wise? I went with Plex because my TV had built-in support for Plex, but now I think I'd like to delete my Plex account and switch to Jellyfin.

Sorry, haven't looked at HN in a while. As long as nothing from the Jellyfin server is touching the internet (no port forwarding or anything), you're probably just fine. If someone is able to hack your Jellyfin install, despite it being completely in your LAN, you've probably got bigger problems to worry about.

I suppose one way you could access it outside the network securely would be to set up a VPN on your home network, to connect to your Jellyfin server through. So there's options. But obviously it depends on how far you want to take it.

Re: Plex: Important notice of a potential data breach

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Post by seanw444 » Tue, Aug 30, 2022, 2:28 PM UTC

gadders wrote: post #184

seanw444 wrote: post #183

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Yeah it's been working perfectly for me ever since I set it up last fall (maybe it was winter, can't remember). At least half a year. I'd say it's worth the effort, but the process still sucks. One of the things I remember making it real difficult was that the UI of Samsung's dev tools app assumes you have the default light theme in GTK (or whatever widget toolkit they're using), and since I had a different dark them…

I would if I had one. I'm windows-only currently. I guess I could spin up a VM but then I have networking issues... Thanks for the feedback.

Oh, in that case, I'm sure Samsung has it available for Windows, and it will probably work even better than the Linux version does (considering there aren't dozens of Windows distributions, and dozens of window managers, and a half-dozen popular GUI toolkits to account for).