It is undoubtedly one of the best media apps out there. What I really like about this project is the attitude of the maintainers towards open software and donations [0].

Kodi is also an alternative that IMO would work better than SMB and VLC, but I personally don't like the Kodi user interface.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/comments/10pe5pd/a_quick_n...