Android TV version 0.17

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I was wondering why overnight I went from 0 to 1 simultaneous transcodes to 6. all of my local clients were using LibVLC experimental player to get ASS overlay sub support. none of them had any audio/sub sync issues that were noticeable.

I'll try rolling them back or trying a third party player for now. just trying to avoid having to configure user friendly kodi setups on multiple nvidia shields and other players in the home.

I moved my local clients from Plex to Jellyfin a few months back after not trying JF for a few years. it's come a LONG way and I am very happy with it, but I do consider the removal of LibVLC a regression without a replacement in place for it.

I've tried MXplayer and VLC as external players, but they both have issues related to framerate matching and audio passthrough so they are both out, have not tried MPV yet.

I'd happily donate to get a replacement for libvlc up and running.

You'll be happy to hear that there will be work done in the future that will bring direct play support for ASS subs to Exoplayer on the Android TV app.

No word on when development is estimated to start/finish, but the main dev behind ATV has stated that he plans to work on this in the future.