Media streamer Plex has raised new capital. The company, which began as a media organization startup, has morphed over the years to become a one-stop shop
I hope this doesn’t mean they are on the slippery slope of selling user data, thoughts?
That is only true when you use their “home” feature. It puts the entire thing behind oauth because it has to do so in order to restrict libraries/content to non-full users. Think about the instance where you have a thirteen-year-old kid and you want to restrict them to pg13 and under. Without forcing oauth on local connections they could just sign out and watch all your star trek porn parodies or whatever you don’t want them to see. If you remove the server from a “plex home”, it disables the oauth workflow for local connections as expected.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not really happy with a lot of their new sharing/social features, and their recommendations on the homepage can fuck right off, but I do think it’s important to be accurate when criticizing. Requiring oauth on local vlans when plex home is enabled is the objectively correct solution.
What’s not to trust with VobSub? They are always in sync, unlike a lot of Bazarr fetched subtitles. Of course, only play VobSub on devices that can direct play them.
The main problem for me is their poor device support but VOBSUB has other problems like poor text scaling and ugly text. I think the last two problems are because VOBSUB is raster based instead of text based.
Bazarr subs can have problems but those are mostly mitigated by automatically time shifting all but the very perfect sub matches. Adding more tags to files from radarr/sonarr probably helps with matching as well.
I had to drop Plex when it made me sign in for a locally hosted setup. I’d rather not have them in my library.
Replaced with Jellyfin as others here have, found every device in the house so far works with it and it streamed 4k to the TV from an RPI 4.
That is only true when you use their “home” feature. It puts the entire thing behind oauth because it has to do so in order to restrict libraries/content to non-full users. Think about the instance where you have a thirteen-year-old kid and you want to restrict them to pg13 and under. Without forcing oauth on local connections they could just sign out and watch all your star trek porn parodies or whatever you don’t want them to see. If you remove the server from a “plex home”, it disables the oauth workflow for local connections as expected.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not really happy with a lot of their new sharing/social features, and their recommendations on the homepage can fuck right off, but I do think it’s important to be accurate when criticizing. Requiring oauth on local vlans when plex home is enabled is the objectively correct solution.
How about transcoding subtitles on those 4k titles? That’s where I find Plex is a bit worse for wear right now in my environment.
First rule of streaming, don’t transcode 4k
I use bazarr to automatically grab subtitles in .srt because VOBSUB cannot be trusted.
That pretty much solves any subtitle related issues.
What’s not to trust with VobSub? They are always in sync, unlike a lot of Bazarr fetched subtitles. Of course, only play VobSub on devices that can direct play them.
The main problem for me is their poor device support but VOBSUB has other problems like poor text scaling and ugly text. I think the last two problems are because VOBSUB is raster based instead of text based.
Bazarr subs can have problems but those are mostly mitigated by automatically time shifting all but the very perfect sub matches. Adding more tags to files from radarr/sonarr probably helps with matching as well.
Yikes. Use Bazarr to extract the subs to external .srt files.