Beware that Jellyfin is not good with duplicates, if you have a lot of those. You have to rename your files for duplicates to be recognized. Not great if your files come from the... sea.

Sir, this is an Onion article.

How many user profiles does it support?

that implies you may have a misconfiguration? I am pretty sure local access is still free, no? its possible your TV is connecting through remote due to either rebind issue OR some other local subnet setup you have.

IIRC it's a charge to use their relay servers, which you only need if you don't have a direct connection to your media server. Setting up a direct connection isn't always easy or possible especially for non-technical users, and does come at some small expense to Plex, so it's not that weird to be a paid feature. But if Jellyfin meets your needs that's a good thing, it's probably got a better shot at avoiding enshittification long term.

edit: I was not remembering correctly, even direct (remote) connections are paywalled. You'd need to use some kind of tunnel to make Plex think you're connecting locally.

Unfortunately for me, my TV does not support Jellyfin. I'll probably be getting a device for it that does though.

I mean it’s 2 fuckin dollars a month. If you’ve got a setup that can utilize plex you’re probably running at least $800 worth of hardware that costs more than $2 in electricity per month.

Can explain how the fuck to use Jellyfin. I can't get it to cast, unable to get it on the Roku app. All around it just doesn't work.

I left when I saw all the attempts to send logs back to the mothership.

Its the only thing that roku supports