2025-04-05, 09:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 2025-04-05, 09:05 PM by AltoClefScience. Edited 1 time in total.)
(2025-04-05, 05:17 PM)Vinsss Wrote: Thank you for the option.
I could consider such a thing, it really comes down to the nature of the ads :
- if it's "only" some images within the Roku menu, it's fine
- if it's vidéo ads or pop up within Jellyfin itself, it's not fine
I have a Roku Ultra as my primary Jellyfin playback device. It does have some issues with codec and HDR profile support, but those are usually fixed by disabling the unreliable codecs on the Jellyfin client to force more transcoding. Fine if your server has enough transcoding performance, not fine if it can only handle direct play. In that case you either need to very carefully curate your content to only include things that will play on your Roku, or get another device.
Ads are increasingly annoying but they only come up on the Roku home screen, never inside Jellyfin menus or during playback. But those ads are getting increasingly obtrusive, now including auto playing video popups over the Roku home screen. Supposedly those ads can be stopped by blocking outgoing DNS requests from the Roku to Roku-owned DNS servers, and forcing it to use something like a local Pihole that blocks Roku ad domains.
Personally, I came to this thread to find a good Roku alternative with better codec support and no ads and tracking!