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Making an account is what allows the easy library sharing and remote streaming, something that Plex is significantly better than JellyFin at.
What transcoding options does it have that Plex doesn’t?
How is Plex significantly better than Jellyfin at those things? I can just create a user in 2 seconds on the admin dashboard for Jellyfin, set a temporary password and my friend can log in and change it to whatever they want.
I can even limit the streaming bitrate to the account if I need to avoid bandwidth issues.
They mentioned remote streaming which jellyfin doesn't have a secure way to do by itself
Does Plex? Have they ever been security audited or are we just taking the word of closed source software because they make it easier? Like Microsoft who just got caught adding backdoors into billions of computers and (pick one) closed source software company who has had major security breaches in the last decade.
Plex remote streaming is secure by the very nature of how it does it.....
No, but that's easy to setup with Tailscale or a myriad of other solutions for free.
Which is not within the bounds they mentioned
Unless your user comes and logs in on your network, and only streams when they’re at your house, then you’ve just opened your server to the world.
Plex has bandwidth controls.
Tailscale and IP whitelisting are both viable options
No they’re not. No one is connecting their tv to Tailscale, especially not your parents or grand parents, and ip whitelisting is still dangerous and insecure on networks you don’t control.
Tailscale has native clients for all the major TV OS'. And I'm not whitelisting public networks for my friends' convenience. If they're traveling, they use tailscale with their mobile device or not at all. If you're talking about IP spoofing that's not a realistic vulnerability concern for a home media server.
At least I know the potential attack vectors for my Jellyfin server and can mitigate potential security concerns.
No it doesn't lol. Only the extreme minority of people are using TVs that can even install apps.
Yet on plex there aren't any lol. If you're opening your server to the internet, and giving other people access, it's not secure - especially via software like JellyFin where the devs even know and say it's not secure.