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Jellyfin FTW!
Problem is my user base are TV and mostly non technical people. No way they setup and maintain a JellyFin install. That’s why Plex just wins.
What? Why would they need to setup a whole install to use your server? Just connect to the server in one of the numerous apps and login to your account?
Made the switch to JF about 6 months ago, Never looked back!
JF has no proper chromecast support… ☹️😤
Yes it does.
You have to use the Play Store version
iPhone has no Play Store. I got the app from the AppStore for iPhone, no luck, chromecast does not work.
Ohhh, that's too bad then.
What do you mean? I have used chromecast with Jellyfin many times.
Chromecast in JF never worked...
When I click the chromecast icon in JF "Play On" (top right) I get "Google Cast Unsupported".
How did you manage to get it working?
This is why! It's a crappy implication...
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/6840#issuecomment-1042905147
Android required, no iphonies
Jk, i eagerly await ios support but for now android only
Windows browsers such Firefox, Chrome, Vivaldi, Brave have the same issue. It's not OS or device related, it's how Chromecast has been implemented in Jellyfin.
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/6840#issuecomment-1042905147
I am also strongly considering to make the switch now. Any notable drawbacks/learnings from using it for 6 months?
Is it supported on tv makers?
https://jellyfin.org/downloads/clients
No Apple TV client. Bummer.
There is your answer.
It says available for Android TV and WebOS. Which are the TV OSes now most of the time.
I also recently installed it on Tizen(Samsung's OS) and using the docker container(https://github.com/babagreensheep/jellyfin-tizen-docker) it was stupidly easy and the hardest part was enabling developer mode.
Guess it's too late to change the stupid name.
Wdym TV makers?
They mean Smart TVs. My Dad's Samsung TV has a Plex app, but no way to install anything like Kodi that would let him use Jellyfin instead of Plex to serve media.
There's a Jellyfin app for Tizen (Samsung TV) but it's kinda stupid to get installed and is kinda sluggish. Actual playback is perfect however.
Not sure about if Samsung TV has Google play store where the jellyfin or infuse app exist, but you can do chromecast / airplay if not Google play store
Definitely no Play Store on his TV. I don't think it has any Chromecast /Airplay apps either, but even if it does I don't think they're any substitute for Plex or Jellyfin.
Just don't use Samsung tv then and get an inexpensive android TV box...
Infuse is Apple only AFAIK
Amazon stick is the cheapest (easy) way to turn any TV into a Jellyfin TV.
Personally, I'm getting increasingly annoyed with my Fire Stick. It's kind of sluggish, and very locked-down. You used to be able to sideload a custom home launcher, but Amazon is cracking down on that. Their launcher is filled with bloat and ads. Recently I've noticed mine auto-playing Amazon Prime video trailers on boot which makes me want to throw it out the window.
I have JF installed on my Samsung (Tizen) TV and it works great. And the TV will auto-launch back into JF on boot... something I wish Fire Stick allowed.
I've been tossing the idea around to set up a cheap mini NUC-like box, like a Beelink or something similar. About the same prices as an Apple TV or higher end Roku, and you can either use Windows, Linux, or even Android on it. Just needs a convenient remote to navigate it without needing to hook up a mouse and keyboard, or gamepad, and it would be a great little set top box.
Also I'm kind of surprised there aren't more Linux distros for this already. We've got gaming console-like dedicated distros in Batocera, Lakka, RetroPi, Recall Box, etc. even stuff like SteamOS, or customized clones like Bazzite, Holo and Chimera. Where's the TV focused OS? The closest I see are typically just running Kodi on boot, which is ok I guess, but I want something more like an all-around HTPC where Kodi is just an application I launch when I want to watch something, rather than the sole UI.
How has been your experience with higher bitrate/quality stream directplay?
On my 4-5 year old Samsung TV I notice sluggish playback with 4K and high bitrate files with the Tizen Jellyfin app.
With plex the same files were working fine.
On my Desktop (using MPV) all files playback fine.
Now I think about buying something like a FireTV stick or Xiaomi TV Box...
I’m also not a fan of Amazon’s streaming devices. I grabbed a 4k fire cube for $50 last year during one of their sales. This thing already lags like crazy and recently started playing an ad when you first turn it on. Annoying.
My 2017 NVidia Shield still rocks.
Strange, I haven't experienced that, but I'm also connected to Amazon Canada, so maybe it's different.
Even side loaded Steam Link to stream games and it works pretty well.
Amazon Fire days being based on Android appear to be numbered. Doesn't mean JF or any other client can't have a React-based client for whatever Vega becomes if/when launched, but I'd expect it to take some time. The prior effort for a React-based client seemed to have died a number of years ago.
Why would you install Kodi to use Jellyfin?
AppleTV + Infuse
And if JF won't work for you, Emby is pretty decent as well.
Is there some way to send a invite to someone from your jellyfin where they just need to install the app and follow your link? Or some other way to seriously streamline install and setup?
The whole use this hostname and managing reverse proxy etc is the reason I have not switched. It's just not user friendly for a grandma or typical consumer. That's the majority of my users.
What's the safe way to expose jellyfin for users to access without a vpn or cloudflare tunnel (tos)
I would love to switch but their agent is so bad. It only finds like 10% of my videos. I dont want to spend 80 hours searching the metadata one at a time.
Plexamp?
Does Jellyfin have an adequate apple TV iphone and android client with library sharing thats comparable to plex? Im not trying to start a war here, i just want to know. Only reason I don't use jellyfin is because back in the day it didnt have library sharing or a decent apple tv app.
Unfortunately Jellyfin is just missing features. Opening and Credits skip? Nope. There is a plugin, but it doesn't work with the Android client. On that front the Android client is so temperamental. Half the time it just doesn't work on my Nvidia Shield. The UI is really clunky as well. I was using it for several months and the app just frustrated me so much I just went back to Plex.