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Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. (arstechnica.com)

submitted 4 months ago by jeffw to c/technology

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[–] Iheartcheese 5 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Then how would I run my private Plex server?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Run Jellyfin instead. I don't know how Plex has stayed as popular as it has.

[–] cm0002 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Easy, Plex can pass the spouse test. Jellyfin has yet to pass the spouse test...it's getting there though

[–] HarriPotero 8 points 4 months ago

My spouse has switched from Plex to Jellyfin

Maybe it's time to try again? Or consider another spouse?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I tried Jellyfin and the performance for me was sooo much worse than Plex on the same system. Videos took forever to play. Also Plex is way easier for me to share with family than Jellyfin.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

You can check to see if you can enable hardware transcoding. I find the delay is usually transcoding building up a buffer and if you have a good GPU/APU in your server it's often a lot quicker.

Pretty sure on jellyfin by default that is off. Mainly because you need to install some packages to get the devices available under linux usually.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

If you were playing videos with subtitles on android, you might have run into the slow subtitle burn in bug.

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/11938

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Because it's straight better lol

[–] MisterMoo 11 points 4 months ago

I have a private Plex server and all TVs disconnected from the internet. What does one have to do with the other?

[–] thehatfox 7 points 4 months ago

Isolate the smart TV in restricted VLAN in your home network that can access your local media server but doesn’t allow internet access.

Segmenting a home network like this is also a good idea for smart home/IoT devices.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I'm not seeing any replies that are super helpful for your question - so here's what I do: throw a Linux desktop on a Raspberry Pi, or NUC and use the TV like monitor. Get a wireless keyboard/mouse combo and watch Plex through the appimage or just Firefox. Bonus, now any website that does video can be viewed on your big screen tv without dealing with any casting apps.

[–] ANIMATEK 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Downvoted for what?

I recommend either an AppleTV to watch WEB-DL or a Nvidia Shield Pro for REMUX if you don't have a Samsung TV; otherwise a Zidoo.