Well I already have jellyfin running in a container, just have to figure out how to get mum’s TV to work with it I guess

<edit> log in on a local IP and not the network name and it’s working again. but I’ll be moving to jellyfin from now

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    the thing that everyone always glosses over is that jellyfin should not be run on a public network. it has known security vulnerabilities… that includes VPN remote proxy, so now you have to have external users on your actual VPN, and if that’s the case then plex will work fine because it’s “local”, and has a lot more features

    (and my main issue: media segments don’t work on swiftfin)

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        17 hours ago

        i’m not likely to wrangle installing and maintaining wireguard on my mums cheap smart tv

        and if that’s the solution, as i said you get plex local playback so that’s free still anyway

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          16 hours ago

          Yeah, Plex makes it easy…other than dealing with their cloud data breach.

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            16 hours ago

            which they handled about as well as you can: prompt and clear notification without trying to pass the buck

            the potential of a data breach is just a fact of life with any SAAS product - bugs happen… and it’s exactly the SAAS part of the product that makes the invites/login/aggregation of servers so smooth

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              4 hours ago

              I understand people want ease of use, I prefer selfhosting and no cloud intervention just to be safe. But, to be pedantic, we should say cloud or external server, because SAAS just means software as a service, and there are lots of SAAS products that have no cloud aspect and are fully local.