2025-01-09, 09:32 PM
(2025-01-09, 01:46 PM)Mushie Wrote: I'm more interested in having trickplay thumbnails actually work on Roku. I don't mean to come across as indignant but the competition has had this feature forever, it seems. Is there a timeframe for this feature? Or is there a behind-the-scenes issue that is making this difficult to implement?
I was able to get TrickPlay working on my Rokus some time back, but now can't find the article that helped me. The essence is that Trickplay images are stored as a grid of images whose size is defined in Jellyfin under the Admin Panel->Playback->Trickplay, and the Jellyfin default produces a grid that is too large for most Rokus to handle. In the Trickplay settings screen look for "Tile Width" and "Tile Height". I remember the default being 10 for both. I had to reduce each of these to 5 to get Trickplay working on my Rokus.
The catch is that after you change the trickplay grid size then you need to delete any existing trickplay image grids and regenerate the trickplay grid for this to be effective. I have the option set on my libraries so that the Trickplay images are stored at the same location as my library, but the Jellyfin default stores the trickplay images somewhere else (https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-trickplay-a...e-location).
The point is, to test you can delete the trickplay images for a single show and then go into "Scheduled Tasks" and initiate "Generate Trickplay Images" to regen the trickplay images for that single show using the smaller trickplay grid, and then verify that it works on your Roku. If it does, then you would need to delete all of your trickplay images for everything, initiate the trickplay image generation, and wait for it to complete for all shows using the smaller grid size - which could take quite some time if you have a lot of shows.