You can create a new account and get the lifetime discount offer again.
yeah a basic mp4 player with a bunch of bloatware and adware built in. all it has is a library organiser, content id, an extremely basic ui, play progress tracking and subtitle downloading. something that you get with every free media player under the sun. and they want a MONTHLY fee lol. there is plenty of software like jellyfin that does the exact same stuff (and more) for absolutely free. I was only still using plex because itâs bundled with synology and I couldnât be bothered taking 10 minutes to set up jellyfin in docker. changing right now lol, if they think theyâre netflix they need a reality check
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Emby is not free and jellyfin is years behind plex in functionality, features, ecosystem and performance.
As much as I hate on the shityfication that is going on in plex and the direction the company is taking, they do provide a piece of software which is, in big parts, free and works well and has so for years.
They have employees who code, maintain, host and support that software and they need to eat, pay rent etc. â â â â âs not free. Judging from your post you still go to school but once you finish you will have to work and you will also not do it for free, just like the people working for plex. So charging a bit of money is totally fair. The plex lifetime pass, especially on sale, is an incredible deal. Btw you still can stream locally for free, you can put it on a VPN and pretend it is local and watch for free. Since you seem to know how to host your own stuff, I am sure you can spin up a wireguard connection.
If you think plex is a worse VLC you are not understanding what plex is doing, at all.
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how many people in school host a NAS and DDNS lol? the only people this affects are grown adults who choose to pay the up front cost of hosting their own servers instead of buying 15 different monthly subscriptions
the only thing plex offers me that vlc doesnât is
- an extremely basic file browser that pulls publicly available metadata (and is covered in ads)
- hooking into a subtitle database
- stored progress on whatâs already been watched
- bitrate lowering for unstable connections
Jellyfin appears to provide all of the above so I am in the midst of spinning up a docker container as we speak. and Emby has the above functionality for free as far as Iâm aware
I already have an openvpn server but often travel to countries that have aggressive firewalls and constantly have to play vpn port/tls crypt cat and mouse, and likewise android TV devices like the nvidia shield have limited vpn client capacity so you often have to route your shield through the VPN client at the router level
either way Iâm out and I suspect most people are, only a mark would pay several hundred dollars for this functionality, and those people already have netflix and hbo now
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Google INFUSE 8 and youâll understand that Plex is not the Swiss Army Knife it thinks it is. Just LOOK for yourself at the loads of features that Plex REFUSES to implement. While itâs only for the iOS/Apple ecosystem, it is by far leagues above what Plex should do with being a functional VIDEO player. They should have not been able to screw up this badly, but they have⊠and they refused to make good on their mistakes by purposely deflecting, feeding cute corporate marketing word salad to appease their user base. Thereâs really no excuse for ANY of what theyâve done to their own SAAS. The ONLY one who are sabotaging their efforts to reach success is Plex and their leadership.
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Iâm an Android guy and have recognized the amazing performance of Infuse for Apple folks. I wish theyâd port it to Android!
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idk what a strawman is helping in an argument about paying wages to your employees?
Infuses got a piss poor UI and is not a media server? Never said plex is a Swiss army knife? What are you going on about? Infuse also asks for money?
It is mindboggling to me how the concept of paying people for their work needs extra explaining to grown up people.
Wanna talk about the direction plex is taking with their poor new release? With their streaming first approach? The lack of support? Sure, I am right there with you, but thats not what we are talking about here.
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Iâm talking about the serious lack of what a media player should already have as a basic foundation. Everything I pointed out seemed to go right over your head. At BARE MINIMUM, all video players have similar features, and the very sad part is that Plex has often failed MULTIPLE times through many of their UI revisions to properly implement AND expand on their video player capabilities. To sit here and accuse me of bringing up a strawman when INFUSE itself as an app integrates with Plexâs api AND it also doesnât wall-garden itself from working with other platforms, shows how youâre cool with the status quo, the lack of integrity of the app and its company leaders.
Irrelevant. No one here was bringing up FREE of someoneâs work or that devs donât deserve to eat. Thatâs YOU being obtuse. BOTH companies are FOR PROFIT and are within the media player market, so they may not be DIRECT competition, but they certainly have similarities in scope of USAGE and userbase.
Plex has had OVER A DECADE to make SERIOUS strides to be that app that actually DESERVES the new $249.99 price tag. Absolutely NO ONE disputes that Plex shouldnât get paid what it would have been worth HAD THEY NOT TRIED TO REINVENT THE WHEEL FOR THE 100th time!
It was ALWAYS said that the original $119 Plex Pass was not a great price point for the long-term longevity of the development, but THAT sole responsibility is on Plex Inc., NOT us users. Itâs been well known that keeping the $119 price point was and would hemorrhage the company. The new price point of $249 is not the issue. Itâs the fact that features that were once STANDARD are going still broken, put back but no longer intuitive or gutted entirely, which means the new price tag DOES NOT match the value that the Plex apps once had.
You CLEARLY donât know what people expect out of a fully-fledged video player then.
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If anyone is still confused about the passes, might I suggest you join one of the many facebook groups where visual graphs have been made to connect the dots.
If anything, your response is clickbait. This communication approach is one of the leading factors pushing people away from Plex, FYI.
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You seem to need to read up what a strawman is, as you keep on strawmannig on strongly. Speaking about something going over someoneâs head.
The childish comment I replied to was about plex asking for money while other media servers were free and then you come in talking about infuse, which also asks for money and isnât even a media server. You are comparing apples to oranges. You seem to not understand the difference.
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Read that again, maybe it clicks on the second time. We are on the same page here.
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So clearly AI must be wrong. K, so Iâll switch to VLC. VLC is labeled as a media server and STILL has basic video capabilities that should have been implemented as basic features in the video player settings of Plex by now. Thereâs no reason why anyone should not be able to adjust their video as part of their PERSONAL media library to their liking. NOTHING should stop that unless of course the company or developer CHOOSES not to do so. This is a blatant CHOICE by Plex, otherwise they would have implemented these much, much earlier.
Basic video picture functionality settings such as Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Sharpening, are ALL fundamentals in using a video player or ANY modern television and visual device. I ask you, HOW is none of that implemented by Plex and WHY would they purposely neglect these core fundamental video settings that our Smart TVâs have. Please explain if you can. Iâm dying to know.
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If VLC fits your needs, sounds like you have a perfect solution! I know for most users, they expect the âNetflixâ style functionality. Just an app they open, click on something and it plays. It sounds like your use case is more niche/unique than most people, and thatâs awesome! Iâd love to know how using VLC as a media server goes to be honest. Seems like a really interesting idea. Watching this thread!
Dude you are rambling and strawmannig again. I donât know what you are arguing but it has nothing to do with the thread.
It is like going to an apple farm and loudly complaining that they donât have oranges.
I could not give 2 â â â â â about brightness or saturation, you do, great, there are choices for you. Go use VLC, why even use plex then? Why post here if vlc solves all your needs?
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I just had a user say he is unable to stream from my server and I have the Lifetime Plex Pass, so Plex screwed up somewhere
Have you restarted your server?
Dude, how are you an account since 2013 and not understanding that Plex says in its TOS that itâs software/SAAS is for PERSONAL usage and there are PLENTY of users who donât always have the means (whether that be time, money or whatever) to alter their family videos from VHS or DVD that we took diligent time to process and catalog into our Plex Libraries. The fact that youâre trying to defend Plex in a way that is similar to Netflix runs foul on the basis that not everything we own or have in Plex is in PERFECT crisp video quality, direct from Hollywood studios. Would take me additional time to color correct and fix all the nuances of home videos prior to the 2000âs.
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Restart your server.
You are correct, Plex did screw up, but itâs already fixed.
You can just IGNORE my comment and move along then.
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I also dont see any emails before this about the pay wall, I would have purchased plex pass before the 133% increase. I hope Plex employees see this message and have a 1 month reprive on the cost to give a chance to get plex pass at the old price. I am not happy at all and also looking to jump to another platform.
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