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I think it depends on your clients. If you're using Roku, you can skip Jellyfin..sadly.
Still gotta pay for guide data iirc. Has that changed?
An update for the Roku app was released 5 days ago which massively improves it (finally an OSD!). It's getting there.
I use zap2xml or whatever it is. Simple script and crontab job and it's worked without issue for near two years now I guess (since I initially configured it.) All free. I'm in the States so not sure if it's location dependent or not.
Well not better, just cheaper.
Never used Plex, but if being open source is a feature Jellyfin is better than Plex.
Not requiring an external authentication server is the biggest drawback of Plex. I don't want Plex to have my watch history and info about my media library.
With Findroid supporting the intro skip plugin I'm fine since I don't need many platforms.
And Android TV, it's gotten better, but generally still sucks.
I use Jellyfin because it's FOSS, private, and it's also written in a tech stack I'm very familiar with.not because it's better than flex, because it really isn't.