2023-10-12, 02:37 AM
that clears things up quite a bit
yes i use kodi but also the official jellyfin app, and also custom compiles of forks of the official app
kodi will indeed use smb or addon, i use addon which uses http streaming
i was not recommending kodi, in fact i am building custom versions of the official app to get away from kodi
if you are using external player then the official app is no longer in control
it is doing no more than executing an external app with a command line parameter (basically the same as adb shell am start com.packagename -d path
/to/jf/file.mkv)
at that point it would be the external app which opens the location/file and plays it - the jellyfin app is backgrounded)
if exoplayer is not an option then my opinion is contacting the developer of the app that is actually doing the playing
f.e. i would not contact the jellyfin people with help when kodi will not play and i would not contact them if the vlc app would not
as far as jellyfin is concerned my files are 'local' to it but they are actually mounted to the host server running docker, docker just interprets them as local
edit:
my setup is 'file server' -> 'home server' -> 'jellyfin in docker'
file server does serve other functions but they are external to my intranet
yes i use kodi but also the official jellyfin app, and also custom compiles of forks of the official app
kodi will indeed use smb or addon, i use addon which uses http streaming
i was not recommending kodi, in fact i am building custom versions of the official app to get away from kodi
if you are using external player then the official app is no longer in control
it is doing no more than executing an external app with a command line parameter (basically the same as adb shell am start com.packagename -d path
/to/jf/file.mkv)at that point it would be the external app which opens the location/file and plays it - the jellyfin app is backgrounded)
if exoplayer is not an option then my opinion is contacting the developer of the app that is actually doing the playing
f.e. i would not contact the jellyfin people with help when kodi will not play and i would not contact them if the vlc app would not
as far as jellyfin is concerned my files are 'local' to it but they are actually mounted to the host server running docker, docker just interprets them as local
edit:
my setup is 'file server' -> 'home server' -> 'jellyfin in docker'
file server does serve other functions but they are external to my intranet