2024-02-10, 07:10 PM
It's going to use storage, or it's going to use bandwidth. Pick your poison.
Jellyfin aims to be fully capable of running in offline mode with no internet connection. Directly relying on upstream metadata providers to provide images in real time is the exact opposite of this, and would undoubtedly result in a worse user experience because of the extra processing time required to request them from the providers in real time. Not to mention the immense increase in bandwidth from thousands of redundant network requests, both for users and the metadata providers.
Jellyfin aims to be fully capable of running in offline mode with no internet connection. Directly relying on upstream metadata providers to provide images in real time is the exact opposite of this, and would undoubtedly result in a worse user experience because of the extra processing time required to request them from the providers in real time. Not to mention the immense increase in bandwidth from thousands of redundant network requests, both for users and the metadata providers.