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Wouldn't Kodi be better suited then? Jellyfin's strength is its ability to transcode
For me Jellyfin's strength is that it can keep track of my wife's place in her shows independent from mine, and also that the metadata and watched state and progress is synced between phone, tablet, and TV.
Why not both? I use kodi when possible because it runs circles around the mostly dogshit Jellyfin apps for various platforms. Jellyfin for kodi and the kodi queue sync plugin import my library and watch status. I still have the option to use Jellyfin apps or web on devices that can’t run kodi (or when remote) and as a result can have all of my media accessible from all my devices without needing multiple copies and centralized metadata administration
Again, given that OP claims limited expertise, Kodi is a good starting point because of its simplicity.
I've mostly stopped using it because I find the Jellyfin apps adequate.
Wait I don't have a reverse proxy because I don't need one. I just installed the jellyfin for windows version and then you just connect to it.
Did you set up up the arr suite too? They run the background services for tracking and pulling titles, and qbittorrent downloads the files. They are all docker images and should be able to run on Win. I like Caddy as my reverse proxy, super simple to point router port 80 & 443 to the server ports for Https.
Did you?
Holy shit man.
I mean, I'd still prefer Jellyfin as its a server (we actually use Kodi for playing the content).
Even within the house, you could stream to multiple different devices. If you use something like Findroid you could download stuff for playing offline on your phone, no external access needed.
Well, I do use Jellyfin for in-home streaming as my TV has issue with HDR content tinting, and Jellyfin fixes that on-the-fly, but it's certainly more complex setup than pointing Kodi at a network share
Oh for sure Kodi would be easier, I was just clarifying that there are reasons to pick Jellyfin over Kodi even if it's only ever internal to your network.