I was on the Jellyfin train for a while. It has enough frustrations (absolutely forsaken anti-support for subdirectories, trashfire Chromecast sync/control issu

I was on the Jellyfin train for a while. It has enough frustrations (absolutely forsaken anti-support for subdirectories, trashfire Chromecast sync/control issues) that I switched back to UPnP/DLNA. It's been pretty good! Gerbera has worked pretty well as a MediaServer. Every TV I have has a builtin MediaRenderer, and some of my controllers like BubbleUPnP on my phone let me cast to Chromecast. I love that gmrender-ressurect is a really good MediaRenderer I can run on laptops and desktops. Bubble also has a media transcoder that as part of their pro package, which was pretty affordable & an easy to use proxy.