@danjones000 we have been discussing some sort of hosted gateway a lot of times over the years but in the end it always boils down to that we cannot do that without taking money for it. Traffic on that scale is not free anywhere and that would be a commitment from us (volunteers only) we cannot garantee if we take money for it. So we dont.
I was thinking that maybe for instances that have internet-accessible addresses, there could be some sort of ActivityPub-like federation that allows two separate Jellyfin instances to share libraries in some sort of peer-to-peer manner.
Like, if I have my Jellyfin at https://my-jellyfin.goodevilgenius.org and my user is dan, and my sister has her own instance at https://her-movies.somehwere.com with a user of sally, then I could share my library with [email protected], and the two instances would exchange some token, and as long as I didn't change my URL, and my server was running, she'd be able to stream my shows straight from my instance with her unique token.
It would limit it to only those that can have a stable URL, and perhaps most Jellyfin users don't have that (like I do). Certainly no minor change from the development side, obviously, but that's how I was envisioning it.
@danjones000 yea i totally get the idea of this kind of federating services but with the old architecture that was next to impossible. Also clients only ever talk to one server alone so the server endpoints would need massive rewrites or at least huge refactorings to make this kind of switching even possible. Nearly all parts would need to make aware of now multiple sources and then we have to do the switch so that one instance does not try to update the metadata of another server and so forth
@danjones000 yeah you will have to create new users for those family members. From there once they connect you can specify what exactly they can watch. From very generic filters to manual libraries or collections I think.
@danjones000 "As long as my wife is cool with the Jellyfin interface (at least, in the Roku client), I can fully delete Plex Media Server and forget about it."
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Oh, man. I got Intro Skip set up on my Jellyfin this weekend. I've been slowly migrating away from Plex. On Plex, intro skip is a Premium feature, but on Jellyfin, it's just a plugin.
Anyway, I just finally tried it out, and it works fantastically. Just like a regular streaming service. Sure, it took a few hours to build an index for all my library after I installed the plugin, but honestly, that wasn't that long.
I should've fully switched to Jellyfin ages ago. As long as my wife is cool with the Jellyfin interface (at least, in the Roku client), I can fully delete Plex Media Server and forget about it.
The only feature that Plex has that I don't see any way to make work easily with Jellyfin is sharing my library (or shows from my library) with people outside my household. I never actually used that feature on Plex, since it also requires a Premium subscription, but it would be cool if Jellyfin could figure something out like that.
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