Plex has announced a massive price increase on the service’s Lifetime Plex Pass. On July 1, the lifetime subscription option will go from $249.99 to $749.99, an increase of 200%. The price hike will only apply to new subscribers, with no changes to monthly or annual subscription pricing.
What kinds of issues? I put an Intel Arc in my server and it’s working fine AFAICT.
Like… say if someone hypothetically had an extremely high bitrate file that includes DolbyVision + HDR10+ on the video codec side… and Dolby TrueHD ATMOS or DTS-HD MA 7.1 on the audio side and an .ASS only forced subtitle track.
Let’s also then say someone outside of the original host network only has an older HD LCD panel with no HDR and no receiver to decode any modern / high-quality audio codec formats, so there would be a need to be able to transcode both the video and audio down to something like an SDR tone-mapped 1080p 20mb/s video track with those .ASS subtitle tracks hard-coded into the video stream and an AAC stereo audio track.
Can Jellyfin auto-configure for that or can someone manually choose some set of preferences based off of that…?
Also, would notably un-savvy users outside of that home network have to configure some esoteric set up with special side-loaded clients for playback and Tailscale so that they could securely access said media?
…Hypothetically speaking?
…Because if the answer is “no” or “it’s not THAT hard to set up” is even close to the answer to any of those questions, then it’s a non-starter.
I have an ~80GB movie that I can watch on a TV that can’t even handle the data rate for that file, nevermind the codecs.
But if the couple minutes to click “this client can’t handle anything over 60Mbps x264” is too much work, then by all means keep paying for Plex. Or “hypothetically” find a smaller copy of that movie.
I’m always amazed by the number of people who absolutely can’t leave Plex because they’ve got 14 grandparents streaming 8k rips all day every day.