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The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you've already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations.

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[–] Damage@slrpnk.net 47 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Use Jellyfin. Stop relying on corps' services.

[–] SkippingRelax@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] pulverizedcoccyx@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

There's a Jellyfin plug-in for Kodi and it's pretty awesome

[–] owen@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Jellyfin is majorly based. I use it with Syncthing for all my media except games

[–] captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just started my switch last weekend! Jellyfin is amazing so far. Just need to figure out how to export all the Plex metadata and posters to .nfo files.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are surely tools to help, that has to be a common problem

[–] captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’ve been searching all over and haven’t found anything yet. The only answer seems to be to directly open up the Plex database in sqllite and navigate the schema myself and figure out how to export the specific tables and fields I want in some usable format. Once I have that, there are tools to generate .nfo files. 

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would if it had most of the features that Plex does.

[–] SheeEttin@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It doesn't work on Samsung TVs, I tried

[–] ironeagl@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you browse web on your tv? That would work.

[–] Stephen304@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I was curious and tried that on my Samsung TV from 2016, it loads a grey background and does nothing

[–] Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe, I put it into dev mode to install the app, but it seems that it's not functional in the current version

[–] ironeagl@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, I meant browse to the webpage like you would on a computer. Is there not a browser available? I've only got dumb tvs, so sorry I can't be of more help.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok.

So it has a dedicated music app?
It has music filtering?
Good 4k/x265 performance?
Has a third party (or built in) utility that shows me streaming usage?
Allows me to limit remote users to streaming from a single IP address at a time?
Let’s me watch something together with another remote user?
Has an app for most any device (like Plex or Emby) that does NOT require sideloading?
Has built in native DVR steaming/recording support?

[–] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Low effort response:

Dunno Dunno I think so Some data, yes Yes Yes but it's jank Yes I believe so

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

So it doesn’t.

So you lied.