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Yeah, sorry I misread your post thinking that Jellyfin had torrent plugins like Stremio.
I like the versatility that Stremio offers because sometimes you don't quite know what you or others want to watch in the spur of the moment. Stremio, like Netflix, offers instant access to whatever movie someone might want to watch, whereas it seems that Jellyfin requires that someone search a torrent site in a web browser for the content they want to watch, then load up a separate torrent client to download it, then watch the content in Jellyfin. It unfortunately isn't very user friendly to people that are tech-illiterate who just want a Netflix like experience for discovering and watching new content.
It seems to me the biggest advantage to something like Jellyfin would be on demand transcoding of already torrented video to other clients like phones to reduce the cpu usage on those devices.
Am I incorrect in my interpretation of the main use of Jellyfin?
Yes, you are correct. But I must say that Stremio does have its cons and is that it doesn't run everything locally.
When you run Stremio it runs a server in the background where you can access content from any browser in your network (port 11470) BUT the webpage itself loads external resources from app.strem.io, if you lose internet connection or for some reason app.strem.io is down then you won't be able to access the server to watch content. Jellyfin runs everything locally.
To me it is very sketchy how they hide their "guest login" option and force you to create an account to use stremio and authenticate with a remote server. There are no local accounts. Jelly does have local accounts, you can limit their download speed, control the devices they use and the movies they can watch.
I guess you could run your own stremio server but doesn't look like an easy task as they don't provide binaries and you have to compile and configure the different components yourself.
Your comment is helpful for understanding more. Thanks for your comment.