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Re: Plex announced to block instances on German hosting provider Hetzner

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Post by TylerE »

OJFord wrote: post #67
TylerE wrote: post #62

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Kinda like when tumblr banned all the porn

Tumblr definitely had (has?) cornered niche blogging too though I think? Especially photo-heavy content, as a Wordpress alternative for a personal blog not a 'website'? I think anyway, honestly didn't realise it was significantly used for porn. OnlyFans on the other hand... didn't they recently say something (trying to appease payment provider I think) about being a general purpose fan payment/follower thing (like Pa…

The ban was in late 2018. Tumblr monthly unique visitors dropped 41% in 2019, from 512m to 370m. You be the judge.

Re: Plex announced to block instances on German hosting provider Hetzner

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Post by toastercat »

whalesalad wrote: post #12

https://jellyfin.org/

Used this with my Roku to stream movies locally, and it worked OK for the most part, but on more than one occasion it had a hard time with larger video files, often causing audio sync issues, weird freezing, or subtitle failures. I tried both the Jellyfin app and the Emby app on Roku with similar results; not sure if it's Jellyfin or the Roku app.

I've since switched back to Plex which streams flawlessly on my local area network.

Re: Plex announced to block instances on German hosting provider Hetzner

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Post by Isthatablackgsd »

Someone1234 wrote: post #23
whalesalad wrote: post #12

https://jellyfin.org/

I've given this a legitimate shot two times, both self-hosting and via a professional host and both times on I have massive streaming problems on a 1 gig connection. It, on paper, has competitive features to Plex but Plex streams almost as reliably as Netflix does.

I have Intel NUC (i7 8559U) for Jellyfin server and 1gig connection. No shuttering issue in my home network, it run flawless in HTML5 Player, Jellyfin's ExoPlayer and MX Player Pro.

Likely the issue is the transcoding process, you would need look into that. It could be the CPU is not transcoding quickly enough, I/O bandwidth issue (CPU to hard drive or vice versa), QuickSync are not enabled in Intel CPU. Newer video codecs (HEVC/AV1), audio codecs, 10-bit, higher resolutions are a big factor in transcoding.

Re: Plex announced to block instances on German hosting provider Hetzner

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Post by LTL_FTC »

TechBro8615 wrote: post #85
WirelessGigabit wrote: post #82

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Let me tell you of a little thing called Sonarr. So instead of me having to go to find the magnet, and paste it in, this application monitors my shows, and when a new episode pops up, it picks up a release based on my criteria (quality, language, etc), sends it to qBittorrent, waits for the download, and puts it in a folder. Radarr for movies, Bazarr for subs, Sonarr (mentioned above) for shows, and Prowlarr for sear…

Yeah, I've heard of it and it looks great. But it also means I need to maintain a media server (which costs me time and money, and is also a potential liability in terms of copyright mafia and script kiddies who find a vulnerability in it and end up on my network). One day I'll get around to building a proper setup, with automated deploys, isolated networking and secure hosting... but for now the least work is just d…

No so. You could run it on your laptop just like you do with your other process. Sonarr would simply automate what you have been doing manually. No media server necessary.

Re: Plex announced to block instances on German hosting provider Hetzner

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Post by OrderlyTiamat »

simplyinfinity wrote: post #74
OrderlyTiamat wrote: post #60

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If disabling transcoding ever becomes a thing in jellyfin I'd probably switch from plex immediately.

Use the mobile/desktop app. Chromium Doesn't have the proper codecs enabled to stream transcode-free most of the time. the apps have them enabled.

Interesting, I'm gonna check that out!

Re: Plex announced to block instances on German hosting provider Hetzner

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Post by OJFord »

TylerE wrote: post #91
OJFord wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tumblr definitely had (has?) cornered niche blogging too though I think? Especially photo-heavy content, as a Wordpress alternative for a personal blog not a 'website'? I think anyway, honestly didn't realise it was significantly used for porn. OnlyFans on the other hand... didn't they recently say something (trying to appease payment provider I think) about being a general purpose fan payment/follower thing (like Pa…

The ban was in late 2018. Tumblr monthly unique visitors dropped 41% in 2019, from 512m to 370m. You be the judge.

Oh that's undoubtedly a lot, of course. If Plex somehow prevented (built-in CV detection of anything commercial vs. home video being played from your own library, say) pirated content I think MAU would drop approximately 100% though!

Re: Plex announced to block instances on German hosting provider Hetzner

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Post by edsimpson »

newsclues wrote: post #55
nilsb wrote: post #49

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As far as UI/UX is concerned their tvOS app is in a really rough shape. The web UI has a fairly reasonable program guide (edit: for Live TV), while the app doesn't. Also navigation in the app doesn't feel polished at all unfortunately.

I think the Apps are inconsistent, some of the newer Apple ones are great, the computer ones are first tier, but some of the multiple TV OSes are lagging. I wish there was an open hardware option that was a target for devs to support for projects like Jellyfin but also funded them when you bought it.

What’s a good app for iOS or tvOS? It looks like the official jellyfin app for iOS hasn’t been updated in a year.

Re: Plex announced to block instances on German hosting provider Hetzner

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Post by paxys »

rabuse wrote: post #69
paxys wrote: post #58

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How many pirated movies do you see on YouTube? The platform very actively blocks such content.

A lot, actually. Typically they just speed it up a bit to bypass content ID.

What is a lot? 50% of all videos? 10%? 1%? 0.001%? Compare the share of copyright violations on YouTube vs Plex and it will be apparent what each service is really used for.

Re: Plex announced to block instances on German hosting provider Hetzner

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Post by vlod »

tombert wrote: post #31
Someone1234 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've given this a legitimate shot two times, both self-hosting and via a professional host and both times on I have massive streaming problems on a 1 gig connection. It, on paper, has competitive features to Plex but Plex streams almost as reliably as Netflix does.

I run Jellyfin on my home server, and this has been a problem for me as well. Even within my home network I'll have occasional stuttering while watching movies, despite the fact that I'm using a dedicated server with 128gb of RAM and 12 CPUs, with a 10 gigabit network card in a 10 gigabit switch, and I'll still get stuttering. I've debated moving to Plex but I'm broadly against running proprietary software on a serve…

> I'm using a dedicated server with 128gb of RAM and 12 CPUs,

I mean wow, that's quite a setup to watch movies! It puts my dedicated intel i5 nuc (using plex w/ ubuntu) with 8G to shame.

You must take your movies very seriously!

Re: Plex announced to block instances on German hosting provider Hetzner

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Post by ncruces »

OJFord wrote: post #96
TylerE wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The ban was in late 2018. Tumblr monthly unique visitors dropped 41% in 2019, from 512m to 370m. You be the judge.

Oh that's undoubtedly a lot, of course. If Plex somehow prevented (built-in CV detection of anything commercial vs. home video being played from your own library, say) pirated content I think MAU would drop approximately 100% though!

Ripping a DVD collection to which I own the originals is not piracy in my country.

In fact, we pay a tax by the GB for every writable storage medium we purchase (everything, from HDDs to the SD card I load into my camera, including actual phones) that goes to authors and accounts for “private copies” like those.

I use Plex and the RAWs from my camera take a lot more of my media server's HDD than any DVD rips.

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