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[Cognicom]

Most 4K films can't be watched on Android TV anymore as the client always plays the 1080p version instead, no matter what you select.

I only have FHD (1080p) TVs connected, so have the clients set accordingly - though I only have a tiny handful of 4K files. Is this a problem that's developed recently?

But - behold - the default resolution on a phone is 4K, and it does play the 4K version without issues - on a display that fits in the palm of your hand, using 4G traffic.

Yes, a major bugbear of mine, but Jellyfin's far from the only culprit. I have the Jellyfin client on my 'phone set to 720p maximum, as (1) I herald from an era when 1200 baud was considered fast, (2) I don't believe in paying a fortune for mobile data when I don't have to, and (3) my eyes are far from good enough to tell the difference (hence my 1080p TVs).

The media player displays some yellow star right inside the controls, which seems to be the movie rating. Is this supposed to encourage you to carry on watching or stop instantly if the rating's that bad?

Something needed to be put there, to make it more exciting? I've learnt to mostly ignore IMDb & RT ratings due to the prevalence of shills and idiots giving movies ridiculously high or ridiculously low ratings - but I agree, it's not something that should be displayed there.

Libraries don't update anymore in a browser when adding films unless you open a different library first, then switch back.

I noticed this when re-creating my custom library. It seems to be caused by overly-aggressive caching, as it can be fixed with Ctrl-F5 - but I don't remember it being an issue previously.

The search button in the dashboard has disappeared. Now you got to press two buttons before you can check something quickly.

This is a real pain (I know, I know, first-world problem). The first rule of UI design is uniformity.

The only thing that actually works better in 10.9.6 than in 10.8.13 is the search. Or, let's say, it probably would if it didn't all of a sudden show lots of films whose title doesn't even contain the search phrase.

This (searching abstracts in addition to titles) seems to have been put in to make life easier for idiots users who don't know how to use a search box properly, but just as with everything along these lines, making things easier for idiots users makes life more difficult for those with knowledge/experience (Windows 10/11 is a good example).