I doubt the heat is doing it intentional or with malice, so it’s manslaughtery heat at best!

Jellyfin is free and open-source, which is why it is very popular with the lemmy crowd. But unless you value those two aspects extremely high, it’s not better.

Definitely Plex, it’s pretty much the entire reason I’m self hosting in the first place!

Haven’t watched or listened to any mainstream media in another way for years and it also gets plenty of usage from other people.

Heat-pump.