Try newest Jellyfin IOS app, enable native player and fpm4, its actually quite good, it will still transcode EAC3 but hopefully that will be fixed soon, but its only transcoding audio, and the video looks great. The biggest factor is that the development is transparent, I think plex served a great use for years, im just saying its clearly not getting the same love for local library people anymore, and if you look at the moves they’re making at the company i think the message is crystal clear unfortunately. I still run both plex and jellyfin because you’re right, neither are perfect or honestly “very good” they each have dumb issues that prevent carefree movie watching on a saturday night, i just see more potential now with JF.
Well i’d agree but I think plex views us as power users, mostly because we actually notice when issues pop up. It is a normie audio format, but unfortunately that’s where we are now… begging for basic compatibility 
True, true.
I can totally live with Plex shoving its bloated content in every damn platform, but I’m just so annoyed basic playback issues that have been reported almost half a year ago, something that’s easily reproduced, has not yet been addressed.
The fact that they released the latest update with this specific changelog also grinds my gear:
Player: Error messages shown when unable to start playback.
If they did indeed implement error messages when playback fail to start, the error message should’ve appeared in our case. Since it didn’t, it can only mean two thing: that specific changelog is a lie (I doubt it), or their code is a mess.
Why else would the error message not appear? Playback clearly fails to start.
Ah well.
