The best application for watching your media.

I still remember finding out about Kodi and remember thinking it was as amazing as VLC, except with an amazing library.

Since using it over the years, on multiple TVs, a couple raspberry pi via librelec I have since settled on:

Kodi, with Jellyfin add-on, over native paths.
I get the power of Kodi with a centralised metadata service. Finally I can watch something on one tv and have it sync onto all other devices.