Emby VS Streama

I used to use Plex until I found Emby. I find Emby easier to use and it does the same thing. Just putting this here as a fourth option for OP. :)

Media Server: EMBY

I use https://emby.media along with private trackers and Usenet.

You can find it here! I have both installed, but I generally keep EMBY turned off until I want to play around with it. You can have both running at once and both accessing the same folders. You can check it out for free.

Emby: Offers premium features with some behind a membership.

I went with Emby, personally. Plex, Jellyfin, etc are all good choices too! :)

For clarity: Emby is still mostly open source (the source code is right here: https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby). Emby started incorporating closed source plugins that you only get with the paid version of Emby in order to try and get revenue.

I used Plex until I found Emby, which is far easier to set up and works very well with all my media.

I think this would be a bit of a hiding to nothing, an alternative considering you own all the DVD's, would be /r/selfhosting on something like Streama or Plex - assuming you have some spare hardware to do so, and can be bothered digitising your collection!

https://github.com/streamaserver/streama or Airsonic maybe?

I used Streama a few times. It's really great. You should check it out. https://github.com/streamaserver/streama Demo: https://streama.demo-version.net/

Ahhh I see! Jellyfin was great, but I ended up moving to Streama as it's got a nice interface akin to Netflix's one! It doesn't have the bells and whistles Plex and Kodi do though, and no TV stuff - I normally just pop an HDMI cable from a laptop into the TV.