Streaming Has Reached Its Sad, Predictable Fate | What should I watch? is now a much easier question than How do I watch it? - eviltoast

Streaming Has Reached Its Sad, Predictable Fate | What should I watch? is now a much easier question than How do I watch it?::<em>What should I watch? </em>is now a much easier question than <em>How do I watch it?</em>

    • CaptainFortissimo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Yes. There is a legit plex app on fire stick and roku. It comes with free live TV and on Demand content, but you can also run your own server on your network with your own downloaded content. If you have an IPTV service you can stream that through plex as well.

      Note that Jellyfin is a similar app/server that works the same way and is totally free. Plex is also free, but there are additional features behind the pay wall like GPU decoding, PVR service for IPTV, and others.

    • HeyListenWatchOut@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Plex - in the way users here are describing (important context since Plex’s management has recently shifted heavily to trying to be like Pluto.TV with less emphasis on its original purpose) works as an application that acts like a library for your own media collection.

      There are 2 required parts to it :

      1. A “server” or “host” which acts as your library.
      2. A client - like an NVIDIA Shield, your phone, PlayStation, Roku, or eve your Fire Stick.

      Without your own server with content stored on it, or at least a friend’s server credentials you can connect to, you are limited to the “Pluto.TV” type ad-driven media collection.

      So the answer is “yes it works on a fire stick,” but you will need #1 also for it to be the single source library for your content and not just another ad-riddled garbage service.