@sun Kodi really is more of a HTPC thing than a server, if you want it to interact with a server it's probably gonna be samba/nfs, as for "real" media servers, all i know is jellyfin. Plex has been pretty cringe for me.

My current setup is just Kodi+NAS, which means I don't have a "media server", all the encoding/decoding happens on Kodi side, while NAS just serves files, downside to that is that it never really leaves my house and support for NFS on mobile is rather rare and honestly not a good usecase for high-latency networks anyway, upside that it's just kodi that does decoding, server is simple.

I do want to move to Jellyfin, but the problem is that it kinda wants relatively beefy (read: not an SBC) system so it can do transcoding and all the good shit that kodi typically does, and I don't have that. I would also want an intel GPU for that as well.