All dependent on the hardware you run the server on. Give it a good GPU and you're off to the races

Infuse player with jellyfin or direct nfs/samba if in same network

I can't speak for client capabilities on Apple devices, but what's your server hardware? CPU or GPU transcoding?

I have an AMD GPU in my server and have no issues transcoding AV1 and H265 for my lesser capable clients.

You can also setup Jellyfin in parallel to Plex and give it a whirl.

If you’re ok with Plex, then you’ll be ok with Jellyfin

And we also have metadata manager, so you don’t have to rename your TV show files every time!

Running Jellyfin off of a Dell Optiplex 3060 and encoding all of my media in AV1. I'm able to stream my movies just fine via the Apple TV.

Introducing "Plex pass plus"! With no advertisements!

I paid 79€ almost a decade ago. I got more than my moneys worth. Even the current lifetime (on sale) is less than a year of Netflix. More expensive than piracy + Jellyfin ofc if that’s your benchmark 😀

I have a Jellyfin instance running anyway, I’ll switch to that if Plex enshittifies.

Bought a lifetime pass, switched to Jellyfin after way too much Tidal promotion on my server.

Have the lifetime since like 2012, every time a post like this surfaces I wonder if the contents of it are finally going to force my hand to use jellyfin instead

I should not have paid for it.

Oh I'm fully aware I'm just to lazy to set up jellyfin and navidrome quite yet.

This is a "slippery slope' argument and thus a fallacy.

Let users decide how they want to run their own stuff. Right now if you have Plex pass this isn't an issue. If it becomes an issue, then you're in the exact same position you'd be in today if you decided to move away from Plex now.

I moved away from Plex years ago, but I don't blame users for sticking with it, it still has a lot of advantages over jellyfin.

EDIT: Y'all are trippin' over yourselves to complain about what other people choose to deploy on their own hardware.

Unfortunately this idea that open source is free is a bit toxic in a way. It's definitely not free to make, it takes years of dev time, and sure, those people often do it without any compensation. And therein lies the problem. People here bitching about jellyfin not doing x or y, but doing nothing to support full time development of it's creation, then shitting on the devs for not having a perfect product, leads to good devs leaving OSS behind.

Edit: I'll also say, I get the issues that come with proprietary software in the modern age, especially anything online, but there's almost this push towards not paying for software. Because some software is free and open source, paying for closed source software makes you a rube or something.

I display my movies and music in the order they were added by default, but I do recall a lot of historical problems with that functionality. It has not been a problem for me the last year or two, I would say, but I do remember it being a problem.

There's still lots of room for improvement, to be damn sure. But can't beat the feeling of freedom, you ask me.

Don't know all the answers but the home screen has the "Recently Added" rows if you scroll down.