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(10 hours ago)akesh Wrote: 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.You can see what is being worked on for the ATV app here: https://github.com/orgs/jellyfin/projects/47/views/1
The main ATV dev is doing their best with what time they got free.
They are not a machine that can afford to deal with the extra work that comes with maintaining extra players. There's already a roadmap of planned things.
I understand your issue with the playback support. The current player will get improvements over time.
You can see the current progress here: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-and...ssues/1057
And if you read the start of that playback rewrite post you see this:
Quote:The rewrite is a very long project because I'm just one person volunteering to work on Jellyfin in my spare time. There is no hard deadline or specific version goals. This issue contains a task list of the bigger features/changes.
A big complaint when libVLC was removed was about the direct playing of ASS subs.
As you can see, that has been addressed and will be slowly worked on in the future.
This wouldn't exactly happen if they were dismissive of the issue.
(10 hours ago)akesh Wrote: 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.Android TV having to be the most accessible client, but it not being so currently is entirely your opinion.
I have been using it too and Exoplayer has not given me any trouble. Anything it can't play gets taken care of by a transcode from the Jellyfin server.
So from my perspective, the playback handling does "just work".
And of course I'm not dismissing the other issues it has because my experience doesn't equate to it having no issues entirely.
