Interesting, maybe they check whether it’s a domain/remote IP on the client side to prevent usage of a reverse proxy.

didn’t have to

Now you do have to, unless you pay for Plex and its convenience.

You need to properly name your media with a proper scheme (including tmdbid/imdbid).

Yes, after I set up the server properly (reverse proxy). With this change the same setup on the server side is necessary for remote streaming with free Plex.

My mum puts in the domain, username and password and starts streaming.

I don’t think Jellyfins focus is currently to support irregular naming schemes. Naming media correctly with a proper scheme is the way to go.

Just so you know I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Yes. There’s AudioBookShelf for audio books.

Roku is also a thing in Europe.

Though I also gave up trying to set up Tailscale for people and just exposed Jellyfin (behind a reverse proxy).

“Good luck setting up remote streaming with free Plex.”

Yes, Jellyfin does not forward ports for you. Same as free Plex. With this change both are the same difficulty to set up for free, the only difference is with Plex there’s a shortcut: Buy Plex.

Jellyfin does not host anything. With this change free Plex users behind a reverse proxy (or VPN) and Jellyfin users behind a reverse proxy (or VPN) work the same for remote access.

The only difference is that Plex no longer provides expensive services for free, while Jellyfin never provided them.

Roku is really simple and locked down. There’s ads on one side but nothing else. My 80yo grandma uses it.

Otherwise Projectivy is an Android TV launcher that can be configured to be really stripped down. It takes a bit of time but if you do it right it’d show less options than even Roku (it’d show only the apps you select, no launcher settings etc).

As a box I’ve heard good things about Onn (Walmart) if your in the US. If not, Homatics is great but pricey. Kick Pi KP1 is more affordable (but still way more expensive than Onn).

This. The blue line is the watched progress and the orange line is the transcoding progress.

I have the feeling YouTube removes my comments if I edit them shortly after creating them.

Also, it feels like they remove comments quickly if they are reported often. At least I have the feeling that if I post factual but unpopular comments, they are more likely to get removed after a short while.

Anyway, it makes sense they remove more than they used to as they had a big spam problem. Now it’s better but them removing valid comments too quickly as collateral makes sense to me.

Unless the media also uses HDR in which case the server will still be required to transcode.

Ugreen NAS support other OS. You could put TrueNAS or Proxmox on there, so no, there’s no security concerns (beyond all computer hardware being partly manufactured there in some way).

It won’t save you from doing a bit of work but you could use podman. There’s systemd integration so you can still start/stop/enable your services with systemctl while using docker/container images. You won’t be able to use docker-compose directly, but it’s usually not that hard to replicate the logic with systemd (Immich was a PITA at first (because they had so many microservices split into multiple images, but it improved considerably over the first two years).

I do this with NixOS quite a bit, and I’ve yet to use docker compose (although the syntax is different, it’s still the same process).

Given OP mentioned torrent and watching media in the same sentence I assume they didn’t rip their own media, and pirated it instead.

If my assumption is wrong, I apologize.

Especially anime often use the superior .ass subtitle format, which many devices don’t support. Sadly Crunchyroll is switching to .srt which has broader support, so it likely won’t require burning them in the video (transcoding), which is the only positive thing (still a shame imo).

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1nuxuzs/crunchyroll_has_downgraded_their_subtitles

Given they use a N100, I’d suggest redownloading instead of transcoding for time, energy and quality savings (i.e cost).

And making sure Tailscale auto launches on a FireTV stick is a pita too. Telling them to open Tailscale on each start is not an option.

Setting up auth before Jellyfin breaks clients. This is not an option. Edit: Unless you meant VPN like Tailscale, but then you’d have to install Tailscale too, which I don’t want to explain to others.