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So glad I built a PLEX server.
Have a look at Jellyfin, if you haven't. I moved from Plex because of restrictions in HW decoding.
I moved over to Jellyfin because to pay for Plex Premium just to be able to stream my own videos was too much.
The Jellyfin app is much faster for me on TVs too. Plex was always chugging like it was trying to load too many thumbnails at once. Jellyfin doesn't seem to have this problem.
Jellyfin never worked great for me on my older tablet and chromecast. Always struggled with either unsupported codecs or just buffering to hell. My plex server is also on somewhat limited hardware and jellyfin could never transcode fast enough, where plex has no issue.
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.
Yup much easier to use Plex, couldn't stand jellyfin