I rate it a 10.10.0 out of 10.
Jellyfin has been rock solid for me, especially since the move to .NET 8. Looking forward to this release.
I liked Jellyfin when I tested it last year but it had 3 show stoppers for me.
- Samsung app was flakey and had to be side loaded.
- Each profile had to use a password and had a full keyboard to enter. Needs a no password option, and a pin pad option.
- Not everything played successfully.
Have any of these things been fixed?
1: The official Android app didn’t work?
That’s strange as I run it on a Samsung and Pixel straight from the PlayStore. What were your problems?2: This is not required as long as the profile is set up wthout a password.
3: This depends on the client and codecs supported by it. Newer phones support most, or is able to transcode. Weaker/older units are not.
They’re probably talking about Samsung TVs, not their android phones/tablets. Installing jellyfin on those things can be a chore. My experience with LG was similar. The official build was out of date and riddled with issues that didn’t exist on other versions. It refused to play videos that worked well enough on other devices, transcode or no.
That thought didn’t cross my mind, and you must be right.
I’d say go for a streamer of some sort as a solution. Not had many issues on the CCWGTV.
Yeah tizen based TV. So no android apps.
Wtf is a Samsung app?
Samsung TVs
I just recently converted from kodi to jellyfin after a Nas hardware crash. I run the server in a docker container on my Nas and the client on a Nvidia shield. Works great, but there is one niggle I haven’t figured out and had much better experience on kodi. Subtitles.
I can’t seem to find any adjustments for the subtitles in case they don’t fit the video completely. There is no menu I have found that allows for adjusting the timing of subtitles.
How are you all coping with this? I use the arr stack and get subtitles through bazarr.
How do you all handle these things?
Are you using subtitle sync in bazarr? I don’t use jellyfin, but have found that bazarr has fixed most of my subtitles that were not in sync just by enabling the option. I think it’s CPU intensive though, so don’t do the whole library at once.
Depends on the platform you’re using. Mobile you have the integrated player that doesn’t support subtitle offset and the web player that does. Everything else is a version of the web player basically and they all support subtitle offset
Nvidia shield is a android device so it tracks that this is the mobile player without srt adjustment. That sucks though. Maybe I should look at kodi and jelly plugin…
If it uses he android client there should be a setting to choose which player, at least with mobilie there is.
On the client go to settings -> client settings -> video player
It might let you change it, you’ll want the web player.
Oh? Very interesting! I was not aware that this was available as a setting. Thanks for the heads up
Shame about the network location regression. That’s the only thing that keeps my kodi device from taking 5-15 seconds to load each sub menu.
What’s this about? I didn’t hear anything about it.
Network paths in libraries have been fully removed and will no longer work. This functionality has been deprecated for a long time, and most of it was removed in 10.9.0, but this removes the remainder. See PR #12446. Third-party clients relying on this functionality should be able to re-implement it as required.
from the article.
Last time I tried it it was a much worse experience than Emby across all devices and for all media types. I don’t understand all the love it gets.
Worse how? Jellyfin was forked from Emby, and since then has continued to improve in my eyes.
It was forked but somehow lacked a huge amount of functionality that Emby had (and still has) Like I think it only supported films, not music or TV shows. The app infrastructure was awful across fire stick, Roku and android and wasn’t backward compatible with the Emby apps. I just didn’t see the point of forking it if you’re just going to make it worse or only address the server side and neglect the clients. The whole thing has to work together with good clients and server.
Jellyfin has supported Music and TV shows since the start
