I’ll have to check out Infuse, thanks for the recommendation.

They are effectively one and the same. You cannot use JellyFin without a client.

There is a huge disparity in the quality, UX, and features of the clients. Many clients are missing basic features like scrubbing, subtitles, saving position, etc… Many platform-specific clients are people’s pet projects and quickly lose support or are half baked.

Furthermore my wife and kids are not technical the way I am—when things don’t work properly they can’t debug & diagnose, they simply can’t use it. And I personally don’t want to spend my time diagnosing why I can’t fast-forward a TV show and so on.

Show me an AppleTV JellyFin client that “just works”. Something my mom & dad could use to watch a movie. Something that can do normal media player things like seeking or subtitles.

There is a huge disparity in the quality, support, and features of the various clients.

The quality and features of JellyFin are nowhere close to Plex. I have used both for years.

Why out of 7?

This is pure insanity. Chaos.

You are spot on about the new Beetlejuice. It’s much like the first one just without any sort of story arc.