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I want to unlock the ability to view content on my mobile device. I can do that with a one-time purchase (payed with google opinion rewards) or with a subscription. I want to unlock the ability for my entire family though, across multiple devices. Do I have to pay the "one-time payment" for every device? If so, the plex subscription might be worth it. Is there any other major benefit to having a plex subscription?

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[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 47 points 1 year ago

Normally people are using https://jellyfin.org/ although i have never used it so I'm not sure if it offers the same functionality but it's worth a try.

[-] nofunberg@midwest.social 23 points 1 year ago

Jellyfin has more functionality but is a lot more technical to set up. I didn’t think it was worth the effort since I already have a Plex server running, but I could see going through that if I didn’t.

Been running Plex with a lifetime pass for around a decade. Worth it for me for sure.

[-] paul@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

It’s really easy to set up if you use Docker.

I want to use Jellyfin, but the clients just aren’t up to par with Plex and last I checked Jellyfin won’t transcode downloaded media.

[-] anteaters@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Jellyfin does hardware transcoding.

[-] paul@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Last I checked, if you wanted to download media to a mobile device to watch later, you could only do that at full quality. Has that changed?

[-] anteaters@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Ah I see, I have misunderstood. I checked and you are correct that it is not possible to download anything but the original file.

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