

This may have been due to exiting while the program was still scanning folders when the media library was still enabled, but it's stupid Java, so who knows. jellyfin is much rougher around the edges, especially depending on what client youre using, but has no cost. It was originally based on PS3 Media Server by shagrath. Plex is much more polished and has some neat features like being able to skip intros but some features cost money to unlock and it also has a lot of bloat and things that you dont really need if all you want is a lean clean media server. One time so far the javaw.exe process stayed stuck in memory on exit, consuming over a GB of RAM. Universal Media Server is a DLNA-compliant UPnP Media Server.

And it doesn't mention that the server has to be restarted to recognize this change. I personally heart Universal Media Server a bit more, since its free and open source and worked nicely with my old PS3 when Plex bugged up for some reason.
UNIVERSAL MEDIA SERVER VS PLEX MP4
I had to disable transcoding of mp4 and others, because it was transcoding most files even though my WDTVLive device supports them directly just fine. I disabled and forego the media library to avoid this. Universal Media Server, PS3 Media Server, Serviio, KooRaRoo, Plex. Only caveats I've found: - The database size it creates for a modest media library it rather large, and takes forever to scan. The following is a list comparing UMS to other popular media servers. But the program is nicely configurable, and does work rather well. Well, it's still a thing made with yucky Java, but at least now it includes its own runtime of it, so there's no ancient security risk, system polluting, full Java install required anymore! Of course, being Java, it's a RAM, CPU, and disk space hog.
