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I find plex works "better than anything else" too but it's in desperate need of an open source alternative.

The media player they just released is open source … https://github.com/plexinc/plex-media-player

I suppose their server software isn’t … I’m not sure.

Correct, the server software is not open source. If you want an open source alternative: https://emby.media/