2025-02-11, 05:16 AM
@niels I mean the important part of the comment is a critique on the development of the client. You made the decision to remove LibVLC. This is a feature used by many people and is asked for time and time again.
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-and.../pull/3663
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-and...ssues/4261
You are continually dismissive of the people that actually use the app and have issues with Exoplayer. I have issues with Exoplayer. Exoplayer is not feature complete, users need a fallback and an easy way to access it. It is a massive pain to switch players after discovering something doesn't work on Exoplayer once you've started playing it.
> If you want to try a different client, just do that. Don't complain to me about it.
You are missing the forest for the trees. I'm not making some "ooh you're gonna lose a customer!" threat about switching to Kodi. I'm probably to continue to deal with the inadequacies of the Android TV client, because on my setup they're not that bad. The point is that there are problems with this client that are significant and seemingly unprioritized compared to other changes. Android TV *should* be the most accessible client that I can recommend to users, but instead it requires power-user usage to switch players depending on formats that I can't expect my users to understand. Users shouldn't have to install VLC or Kodi as a fallback player. The built in playback handling should "just work." The player should be abstracted from the user.
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-and.../pull/3663
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-and...ssues/4261
You are continually dismissive of the people that actually use the app and have issues with Exoplayer. I have issues with Exoplayer. Exoplayer is not feature complete, users need a fallback and an easy way to access it. It is a massive pain to switch players after discovering something doesn't work on Exoplayer once you've started playing it.
> If you want to try a different client, just do that. Don't complain to me about it.
You are missing the forest for the trees. I'm not making some "ooh you're gonna lose a customer!" threat about switching to Kodi. I'm probably to continue to deal with the inadequacies of the Android TV client, because on my setup they're not that bad. The point is that there are problems with this client that are significant and seemingly unprioritized compared to other changes. Android TV *should* be the most accessible client that I can recommend to users, but instead it requires power-user usage to switch players depending on formats that I can't expect my users to understand. Users shouldn't have to install VLC or Kodi as a fallback player. The built in playback handling should "just work." The player should be abstracted from the user.