You don't need Jellyfin (probably)

Title is somehow a rage bait, but I want to expand it a bit. You do not need Jellyfin if you use it only in your LAN and only for videos. I had Jellyfin installed to do this, and I know many people have as well. This post is not financial advice, read with caution! Explanation My setup was like this: QNAP NAS hosting videos Dell Wyse mini-PC with Jellyfin container and NFS access It worked, um, well, but it was pointless. Actually, main reasons to use Jellyfin are: video transcoding automatic metadata retrieval Video transcoding For the first one it took quite a long time to get it working inside a container. However, then I realized (after one year of using it) that the only devices I use Jellyfin on are: TV 1 (Nvidia Shield), TV 2 (Chromecast with Google TV) and sometimes my smartphone (Pixel 9). All these devices can play all my H.264, HEVC and VP9 encoded videos natively, without any transcoding. I paid for hardware capable of playing videos in modern codecs. Your hardware will…