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Have a look at Jellyfin, if you haven't. I moved from Plex because of restrictions in HW decoding.
Do you mean hardware encoding, because that's what's paywalled in Plex.
I personally migrated from a Jellyfin ecosystem to a Plex with Lifetime Pass one when building my current server - while both are highly capable media servers, Plex has, by far, the better clients.
You migrated to a closed source for profit app to get away from the enshittification of streaming companies?
You don't believe Plex will go down a similar path?
You are aware that this isn't a lifelong commitment, right? A Plex license doesn't make using it mandatory. In fact, had you read a bit further, you'd have seen that it's no commitment at all, and I'm still running and maintaining a Jellyfin server simultaneously, reverse proxy and all. Not just as a fallback, but also for the things it still does better.
I migrated my household use to Plex, though, because this evil "closed source for profit app" offers an on-device user experience that is as good, if not better, than that of a commercial streaming services. This makes the rest of the household use it happily, instead of seeing it as an inferior alternative.
Jellyfin's user experience is simply not there yet, not even close. Its clients, if available at all for the system in question, are (mostly) functional, but certainly not fun.
I had the money to spend on the evil "closed source for profit app" and it made my family's life a little better for it - are you sure that trying to shame me for that was the right reaction?