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I have Jellyfin on my home server and use it occasionally on my Apple stuff.

It’s good, but Plex is just better. In addition, it just won’t play some media that Kodi will play. I feel like Kodi will play just about anything, Plex frequently gives me issues with certain formats.

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In Plex I occasionally have to force disable Direct Play (which I think means it transcodes) even though it’s a 264 from the same source as everything else. I’ll try Kodi for the one thing I didn’t manage to get working.

That sums up my experience. I found Jellyfin’s media organization better for personal videos (ie. not movies or shows). Plex tries hard to make it match its brackets but the end result is a bit chaotic.

I ended up choosing Plex because of Jellyfin’s issues with transcoding (I’m lazy to pre-transcode all media to Apple native/ compatible formats). It would randomly just crash on me.

And second reason was the really poor AppleTV app. (It was in TestFlight back then, not sure where it’s at now).

And third, unavailability of downloading to devices.

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