I think that would be something related to your DE. In my case, I have the Plasma Integration plugin in both Firefox and Chromium-based browsers, allowing me to play videos full screen for long periods, the only nag being that if I have it full screen on one of my displays but there is any other window focused, it triggers the screensaver. For those cases, there are a few ways on KDE to prevent the displays to enter any saving mode with no more than 2 clicks, or a shortcut if you prefer to configure those
I’ve found that as well with some files. At first I thought the issue was with the jellyfin instance had not enough capabilities, but after trying the same file with its subtitles, it worked on any other client: flatpak, web, and regular android. So for me it is the chromecast/androidtv device, so I am now looking what to replace it with