I have been meaning to spin this up but life keeps getting in the way. I’ll have to try this weekend.

You can add IPs that are allowed to use it without auth. The software itself is running on your own server.

Plex is self hosting, the auth is not.

That and SSO.

That’s what I did back in the day. When blockbuster closed down I ended up with over 1000 movies and a few bad sets of TV shows. I had to encode low back then as I only had 4tb of space.

Data always helps, that’s why trump fired all the people with backbones.