As for clients: Plex's clients are slick. Jellyfin's aren't, but the third party options are okay.
I'm using an #AppleTV and iPad. #Swiftfin is very much a work in progress for both. It doesn't support Music Video libraries yet, so I didn't stick with it for long.
I switched to Infuse, which is good. I wish it disclosed whether the server's transcoding or if media's playing direct, but I believe the devs who say it's probably always playing direct. It seems to do a better job of that than Plex did on my old Apple TV HD, but bear in mind: I chose codecs specifically for Apple platforms – YMMV. [3/]
Uninstalling #Jellyfin for the final time. Tried my best to like it, alongside #Plex, but it's just so horrible-looking, dysfunctional with absolutely no incentive for me to switch. The client apps for it look abysmal by comparison with Plex (and no, I'm not even using Plex Pass, just the free version) The AppleTV app in particular is janky as hell, the poster icons mode for shows literally overlap the titles of each show like the CSS is broken or something. Plex client is easy to install and set up, good looking and simply works.
Far as I'm concerned, IF and when that happens I'll reconsider. For right now it's way more polished than JF and simply works better for this household and its five TVs.
@NitP Absolutely not keen on switching now. However, I'll never know if something is better without trying it - I've actually spun Jellyfin up, and uninstalled it, a total of three times, including using the JF client and #SwiftFin on iOS along with Infuse. #Emby once. I constantly run comparisons because I'm just personally driven to use the most optimal "things" in my life - dun matter if we're talking apps, vacuum cleaners, smartwatches, televisions, cars or coffee machines.
You're right in that #Plex asks for online auth. I don't have a problem with that, and I likely will IF it goes away. But it hasn't and I'm not big on crystal-balling. I'm using the core of Plex right now, self-hosting and local streaming 100% with none of the other integrations used.
Took out the #AppleTV for one last ditch effort to try and force myself to like it. #Netflix app played a 4K movie but then stepped down in quality - like I had lower bandwidth or something. Endtasked it, started again, same deal. Endtasked and this time it played in proper quality. For at least 30 min. Googled the issue and apparently it’s a known and longstanding problem, NF and Apple have some sort of feud going on and NF doesn’t play nicely with Apple’s ATV app. Knew that already.
Next, installed #Emby on my Pc and tried the Emby app. Sort of worked but did not display Dolby Video file. The usual green/purple tint. Ditto #Jellyfin (aka “#SwiftFin” on ATV). #Plex works. Cannot try #Kodi because unavailable on ATV.
I cannot like this thing. Went to #GoogleTV built into my TV. Interface is just as fast. JF plays #DolbyVideo. Weirdly Emby goes into trial mode, it’s supposed to be free but I don’t care because it is not better than JF.