Eh, a Windows box with Jellyfin installed. Whoever is the maintainer needs to be somewhat tech literate. IP addresses, folder navigation, torrenting, and vpn I think would cover a bare minimum setup.

But when users are on the same network, Jellyfin is not difficult to use from an end-user perspective. My kids can navigate Jellyfin on our Roku TV. My tech illiterate wife can navigate it on her phone.

For the maintainer, I speculate it’s a tradeoff of time and money. I save $70 a month, don’t have to navigate multiple BS streaming providers, and get to feel like I’m putting it to the man.

Jellyfin is really easy to setup and use. Just sayin’…

There should be a starter pack for newcomers :) “Here you go, a collection of the top 100 movies and top 10 tv shows!”

Arrrrr

Projects like Plex, they started out from the open source community, had free contributions, and then monetized. People are bastardizing open source.