Important 2025 Plex Updates
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Personal Media and Beyond You’re going to be hearing a lot from us this year—we’ve got a ton of exciting...

We are also changing how remote playback works for streaming personal media (that is, playback when not on the same local network as the server). The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature. This—alongside the new Plex Pass pricing—will help provide those resources. This change will apply to the future release of our new Plex experience for mobile and other platforms.

  • @Quique@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0•27 days ago

    They do not have chromecast support. (Atleat the last time i checked) Thats a deal breaker for me, would live to use it.

    • @Bronzie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      0•26 days ago

      I run Jellyfin on Chromecast with Google TV every day, it works super well.

      Unless you mean casting from your phone, then I don’t know.

    • dantheclammanEnglish
      0•26 days ago

      IIRC it has it. Not if you’re behind VPN or a tunnel. Only over HTTPS.

        • dantheclammanEnglish
          0•26 days ago

          I just confirmed it has it. You need to be on the same subnet, which is why VPN won’t work. But then everything shows up as castable

        • dantheclammanEnglish
          0•26 days ago

          Yes, it does introduce insecurity, so not for everyone. I have it behind a domain on cloudflare (let’s encrypt cert) with nginx reverse proxy

            • dantheclammanEnglish
              0•26 days ago

              Yes, it took me a long time to figure it out. Which is why Plex feels comfortable charging for it