[noicebrewery]

It IS a fork of Emby, however, which is quite similar to Plex in how it behaves. Crucially, Jellyfin does not make you log into someone elses website for your own content. Don't you find that kinda weird about Plex?

But yes, the downside is the lack of smooth integrations. When I tried Jellyfin about a year ago they did not quite have Chromecast support nailed down, however as of now they've got a fully functional Android app and proper Chromecast integration.

[slenk]

I will have to check out the IPTV streaming. Plex handles it incredibly poorly and rarely works, while with Emby I have to do hardly any maintenance.

[ses1984]

I'm pretty sure you can use plex without logging in for many use cases.

[duckMuppet]

You can whitelist certain private local IP's, however for any remote access it must be done through their app.plex.tv website or whatever unless you're going to setup a VPN.

I think that change was made a couple of years ago. I have ran plex on my freenas server for years and had an older version of it. When i upgraded my freenas to use iocage instead of jails recently, i was forced to update plex, and had no clue about this change. I was shocked to say the least and it is absolutely annoying compared how it was. Emby went closed source around the time as well.

I guess as they say, everyone's gotta eat, and filet and caviar are the menu items.