> You can get a modern chatbot to produce this experience in a single prompt.

If you value your time that little and you get more joy out of building apps for multiple platforms instead of watching movies then this is the best choice. For everyone else it's probably better to just go with any of the hundres of solutions that went through years of bug fixing and pain already to get it working on all these platforms.

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bob1029 a day ago | parent [-]

Quite the straw man we've constructed here.

I am the exclusive user and I only watch from browsers on laptops and desktops attached to whatever display and audio outputs. I suspect this describes a non-trivial portion of the audience here as well. I don't care about someone being able to watch my media collection on Xbox because I don't have one.

	▲	dewey a day ago \| parent [-]
		> I am the exclusive user and I only watch from browsers on laptops People doing that don't need a media server like Plex or Jellyfin, you just need a directory on your computer. People who use Jellyfin or Plex have a very different case of running it on servers, then streaming it to TVs, streaming boxes and mobile devices.