2025-01-10, 01:56 PM
(2025-01-09, 09:32 PM)HokieRulz Wrote: 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.
Thanks a ton for this! I changed the width and height to 5 as suggested. I then just scheduled a random show to record to see how it would work. When the recording was completed, I checked on the Roku and the thumbnails were showing, but only for the first couple minutes of the show. I went back to the PC and under scheduled tasks I clicked to generate trickplay images hoping it would complete the thumbnails for the new recording. About 20 minutes later when the progress was only at 32.6% I realized it was regenerating thumbnails for my entire library (movies, home videos. TV recordings, etc...). I also discovered in the "metadata/library" folder, the trickplay folders now contained both 10x10 thumbs and the new 5x5 thumbs.
11 hours later (this morning) I was able to quickly test one previous recording that never had thumbnails but now it does (for the entire recording, nonetheless). I will check the Roku later this weekend to see what does and doesn't have thumbnails. Considering that I now have 2 sets of trickplay thumbs for each movie, show, etc...I will likely delete all the trickplays and regenerate them once again with the new settings.
Overall, this appears to be a promising solution!