SOLVED: Jellyfin Keeps Restarting on LG TV

[AlternateWitness]

This is a client side problem and we have little or no information to work with.  Even if we have more information, it could very well be that its a bug that requires a code change.

We could install the debug version of the Jellyfin Android TV app and that would produce a stack trace that a developer could work with.  But, because of the nature of open source, who knows when it would actually get worked on.

IMO, and in a lot of other people's opinion, smart TVs are not ideal because of how rapidly Android changes vs how rarely TV makers updates their TVs vs how rarely most of us buy new TVs.  Then you have the issue of codec support being static and new codecs coming around, etc.

Hence my suggestion to get a cheap dongle.  You get the equivalent experience as the built in smart TV capabilities and can update it cheaply when needed.

Android tv app on nvidia shield crashes constantly too. There's definitely problems with the android tv app.

Thanks, I did some research and ordered a Roku. Apparently any streaming sticks I had in storage were way too outdated for Jellyfin. I know Roku is Linux-based, so hopefully I’ll have a bit more luck with that, and it’s one of the more popular streaming sticks out there, so I hope Jellyfin is more optimized for that also.

I’m kind of looking forward to it, at least the tv probably won’t be so slow anymore, and it would be nice to be able to decode AV1 now without getting a new TV. I think I got a decent deal on eBay. I’ll see what happens, thanks again!