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- cross-posted to:
- piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Casting support is still available on older Chromecast devices or TVs that support Google Cast natively, according to Netflix’s support page
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Use Jellyfin. Fill your server with treasures procured from the high seas. Watch on any device. Sync play with far away friends or family.
i have a locked-down android tv dongle from my isp so i really wish i could cast from my jellyfin server, but then i looked at the setup guide and instantly ran out of spoons.
Xumo I’m guessing? Look for another streaming device. Anything with 4gb ram should carry you a loooong way. I just looked up the cheap 4k stream devices at Walmart, they support Jellyfin as well. In the interest of storage space over quality, most of my vids are 1080p, and they rarely stutter with pure software decoding.
i don’t want to use more than one remote
my favourite netflix client is jellyfin tbh. it fixes all of netflix’s probems.
Does anyone know if it’s possible to run a self-hosted Jellyfin server without having to run an entire data center on your house? I could do something simple like a NUC or equivalent and a tiny NAS, anything else?
There’s people running old raspberry pis with USB hard drives.
It’ll run on just about anything.
Though, you’ll only be able to stream original quality, no on the fly quality changes for low speed connections and such.
Running on a 2016 intel processor with an old Nvidia 2070. I can watch about 3 streams on different devices at the same time.
NUCs (specifically Intel 8th?-gen or later) are pretty much ideal for serving Jellyfin because the Intel integrated graphics can do video transcoding and the software is actually not very demanding otherwise, so the low-power CPUs are fine.
If you were buying hardware specifically for Jellyfin (i.e. didn’t want to cobble together something used), I’d suggest an N100 or N150-based NAS mini-PC like this: https://www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-me-mini-n150
You absolutely can. Currently running mine off of my desktop, but it’s overkill and have a few coworkers that used nucs/cheap mini PCs to setup jellyfin. Biggest thing is to make sure you have enough storage to hold all of your media, then you’re fine.
You can definitely run it on those sorts of machines. You’ll want plenty of storage, but apart from thst it’s not too demanding if you don’t load it up with very high res videos.
Your biggest issue self hosting JF will likely be port forwarding and the infrastructure required so external users can connect via WAN. Plex abstracts a lot of this away since you just have to open the port and Plex will access your library and broker the data between your server and the client. This now requires the server owner have a Plex Pass. The easiest way to host JF is allowing users LAN access via WireGuard (pivpn) but then you start hitting limitations to which devices they can install WireGuard on (smart tvs). I use Plex and JF, Plex for external users since I bought the lifetime pass 10 years ago, and JF as a backup as the enshittification of Plex continues full steam.
I could do something simple like a NUC or equivalent and a tiny NAS
Literally me rn. A tiny second-hand Dell Optiplex with a 8th gen i3 and a 2TB SSD.
Maybe not the most future thinking solution since it can only fit 2.5" HDDs and NVMe’s, which are both more expensive than conventional big fat HDDs, but hey, works great.
If you can find one for cheap locally and get a decent deal on a compatible drive you’re set. You could stretch a Terabyte or two for a while as long as you’re not trying to host Jellyfin for too many people (and are OK deleting watched Shows/Movies when you start running low)But then won’t your rack look a bit empty?
an entire data center
What are you on about?
I just run it on my gaming tower in a container
i mean i’m only using it for me and my family but i just run it on my desktop linux (and before i switched i was running it on my desktop windows with scoop install jellyfin)
Your biggest issue self hosting JF will likely be port forwarding and the infrastructure required so external users can connect via WAN. Plex abstracts a lot of this away since you just have to open the port and Plex will access your library and broker the data between your server and the client. This now requires the server owner have a Plex Pass. The easiest way to host JF is allowing users LAN access via WireGuard (pivpn) but then you start hitting limitations to which devices they can install WireGuard on (smart tvs). I use Plex and JF, Plex for external users since I bought the lifetime pass 10 years ago, and JF as a backup as the enshittification of Plex continues full steam.
The best part is how in the end-stages of capitalism, everything keeps getting worse for consumers. While prices go up, even. It’s awesome. /s
Vote with your dollar and go to Jellyfin, or even simpler, a folder with your media in it.
I keep reading this sentence like I’m supposed to know what it means, but I don’t care. actually. I’m here to post and say that
Changes like this are always made to “Enhance the user experience” yet the UX only goes backwards
They recently made everything massive blocks of color so now it’s impossible to read anything. Damn splash screen takes up a third of my TV
They’re made to “Enhance the
user experienceprofit”“Enhance the user experience” is just what the dev or documentation team writes when management dictates that they drop a feature. The only reasons they would have dropped it:
- Dev work vs actual customer usage (e.g. it wasn’t getting a lot of users but devs had to maintain it with each update)
- People were using it to intercept the stream and capture movies to pirate.
Every decision is about increasing profits first, and UX almost always takes a back seat to that
UX almost always takes a back seat to that
If it even makes it on the bus in the first place
What possible benefit does this offer to Netflix? Are they trying to avoid paying licensing fee or something?
Lol why?
Genuinely seems pretty arbitrary given you need to use their app to start the cast anyway
The fact that casting to older devices is allowed on the expensive plan but not the ad-supported one offers a clue.
Because fuck you, that’s why. I’m sure they will re-introduce the feature behind a paywall soon.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Once you tell a company that you are willing to pay for something more than once, prepare to get fucked, because that’s all you’re gonna get. And not the fun kind.
I was gonna say this could be a way to make account sharing more annoying, so say if you go to a friend’s house and you gotta fiddle to log in with the remote instead of picking up your phone and starting a cast they might be motivated to get their own subscription.
But it seems you can still log into an account by scanning a QR Code, so… ehh???Over the last weekend I was surprised to learn that you can’t stream from the mobile web interface of at least some, if not most, of the streaming apps.
I’m glad we only have old chrome-casts then because we don’t have any smart TVs and might never get one either if it’s possible. The little I’ve interacted with them, they seems to be a real pain in the ass. Some/all of them collect loads of data as well. NO THAN YOU. Yes, I might be old and grumpy :c
Thou shalt buy a smart tv or other device that we can pull metrics from and force advertising to.
And require to login too
Make no mistake, this was intentional before the holidays so families visiting relatives can’t just cast Netflix from their phone to watch something and will require someone to login and use it one of their authorized devices…or coerce them to upgrade if they already have too many authorized devices
I guess I don’t do the casting thing much, but what would the application have to do with it? I mean you cast the presentation from the device, does it care what is on the screen at the time?
Yeah… There goes my subscription. I’m casting everything to Chromecast on my older TV.
Seems like if you’ve got the ad-free plan and an older chromecast you’re still ok… For now. This is indicative though that the service may not be viable for long for you.
It’s been a minute, are there Netflix subscriptions which one pays for but which still have ads?
The cheapest tier is sold at low margin and recouped with ads.
Gross. That’s how it starts, and then the only thing cheap about is its cost relative to the other tiers.
I thought for Chromecast the “casting” part is just telling the Chromecast what to play. Do you need your phone on while Chromecast shows content?
You need the phone for any controls issued to the Chromecast like volume, subs, pause, seek, etc… But you don’t strictly need it once the video has started playing, presuming you’re not using any control commands.
Thanks for the details, seems like that may be why the older Chromecasts are still supported.
Imagine having Netflix nowdays. Just pirate all the movies.
But yea, complain about ads, price and casting as you keep paying them.You have to understand that streaming services are not your friends! They will rise prices, take off features and goes on.
Changes like this are always made to “Enhance the user experience” yet the UX only goes backwards
Hmmm… still works fine from the Plex app
Until they make it exclusive to the Plex Pass
I bought a Lifetime PlexPass 17 years ago for 35 bucks.
I’m good
I bought a one-time purchase to unlock streaming to my Android device years ago.
Let’s hope they don’t alter your deal too.
I have an iPhone. I am more than happy to pay for quality.
I switched to Linux when it was finally ready. I will switch to Jellyfin when it is ready.
The one-time purchase was for iPhones too.
I never paid more than once for any iPhone I’ve ever had
What does that have to do with Plex dropping support for people that paid the one-time purchase?
I was literally trying to do this yesterday and I was confused why my Chromecast was not showing up. I guess that explains it.
