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[–] RxBrad@infosec.pub 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's been a year or two since I gave up on Jellyfin, so maybe it's better now... But the Android TV client was rough, rough, rough when I tried using it.

If you watched Live TV, the transcode buffer would just keep going and fill your entire disk over the course of a few days after you shut down the client and stopped watching.

It was a coin toss whether you'd actually be able to stream any given movie. If you had media with more than 6 audio channels, and also needed to transcode (because you live in the U.S. and don't have unlimited upload bandwidth).... playback would just die right around the 5-10Mbps range. I spent a weekend on the forums chasing down the exact scenarios that caused this one, someone had a Pull Request that fixed it in a matter of hours (by mimicking the transcode logicr of the official desktop client)... and the dev told them to kick rocks

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 2 points 3 months ago

Try with Wholphin. It's a great Android TV app for Jellyfin. Way better than the "real" one.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago
[–] Phantaloons@piefed.zip 2 points 3 months ago

"But my parents can't use a VPN!!"

Was that line in the sand drawn before or after footing the bill, installing a media server, and an entire arr stack?

Their house is right there, bro.

[–] remon@ani.social 2 points 3 months ago

Seems 80% of readers don't care ....

[–] Son_of_Macha@lemmy.cafe 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If I could get Jellyfin to work remotely I would never use Plex again quite happily. I pay £4 a month and my in laws have to pay £2 a month for remote access, it's starting to add up for content I download and host on my storage.

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