2024-03-19, 03:36 AM
(This post was last modified: 2024-03-19, 03:38 AM by baratazana.)
Quote:More or less known. Look at this and this.
Oh noes and it appears that some kind soul even went as far as producing a PR, but it eventually got abandoned
Quote:If you want to try another external player, Just (Video) Player is pretty light, free, open-source, ExoPlayer-based, supports a ton of formats and is in the Play Store. I can't remember what its subtitle-via-Jellyfin support is like (if I were to guess, I would say non-existent), but the ultimate reason I don't use any external player is because, understandably, they're not aware of Jellyfin and they can't report playback progress back to your JF server.
Wow, that's a nice tip, thanks! I'll try it right now!
Yeah this is the problem with the external players. Fortunately, I rarely watch something "halfway" and then go back into it. It's somewhat annoying that many times the "watched" reporting is incorrect too, causing confusion.
Quote:Kodi is the only application I keep on my Google TV box to play stuff from Jellyfin. When it comes to playback, I am completely satisfied with it. I don't play 4K content, so I can't speak to that, but I have had no problems playing back 1080p AV1, H.264 and H.265 video with E-AC-3, and AAC and AC3 audio on my onn. box (2023). Subtitles display perfectly fine, no problems whatsoever (SubRip; I don't watch anime so I don't have anything with ASS subtitles, and no rips of anything with bitmap-based subtitles). Even the little things, like being able to use your own fonts for SubRip/non-ASS subtitles, and the support for having data shunted over SMB (with the Jellyfin for Kodi plugin) are plusses for me.
When it comes to choosing what you want to watch, I do find it slightly clunky there (custom skins are a rabbit hole I don't wish to go down) - the official Android TV app looks much cleaner and better organised to me. Getting Kodi working the way I wanted it to was a little time-consuming as someone new to it.
I used a kodi server on a RPi for quite some time in the past. I have to confess however, that I don't understand how Kodi fits in with a Jellyfin player. So at that point I'm supposing you don't use the JF app, but the Kodi app that via some plugin can talk to the JF server. Is that correct?
Quote:The third-party, mpv-based Android Jellyfin client, Findroid, added an Android TV-specific interface, which looks great. It wasn't ready to use on Android TV when I tried it a few months ago (and, in all fairness, it wasn't described as being so) but I'm kinda looking in that direction for something that "just works" in the future.
Another one I'll keep an eye on, thanks!
l also tried the VLC app in the past, but it had absolutely terrible performance. I was very surprised as it works so well on the PC.
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(2024-03-08, 06:27 PM)abpjf Wrote: I offload all playback ("Play With" / "Play Using" - I don't recall off the top of my head) to an external player. Generally either VLC or MVP. Haven't run into anything that won't play properly (subs, codecs, etc).
Yes, I've been offloading to MX player. I've tried VLC and it just can't play anything right. Lots of stuttering. The LibVLC option is better but has the "micro stutter" subtitle issues identified above. The tricky part is that it does not happen with all movies, only some, but when it does, it's extremely annoying.
I didn't know MVP. Will test!
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