2023-10-24, 06:58 AM
(This post was last modified: 2023-10-24, 08:20 AM by zaudio. Edited 2 times in total.)
(2023-10-20, 04:17 PM)zaudio Wrote: So far maybe. I did test play another movie ('The Matrix') after restarting my container for the time zone fix, and it was not playing well at all... unsure why. Anyway I reset everything and called it a day. Will watch that same movie file soon to verify if is actually OK via JF. As usual rewinding and replaying 'bad play' sections then play totally fine... so the file is fine. I even checked that disk for fragmentation... none.
For sure JF on my NAS seems very temperamental but playing media directly using my Zidoo player is not... I am just hoping I can get it to a place where I can use it with some confidence, as I much prefer the interface and playback tracking.
Sadly I continue to get the smaller glitches often enough despite all the optimizations I made. I can only conclude that I cannot stream my media (particularly UHD) through JF server on my Synology Nas's container to my Zidoo Z9x and expect glitch free playback.
I never experience these glitches playing using the Zidoo player directly...
There is clearly a limitation here with my setup that would be avoided by being able to also play my media truly directly when using the JF UI. Just hoping now the JF team will add the feature I asked for. Until then I'm going to skip using the official JF client as I find the glitches take me out of the movies... Even one glitch in a movie is more than I would expect. Sucks.
I will give this fork of the JF client a go before I totally give up (it might allow the direct path I need), but I'd like to be able to use the latest JF apps: https://github.com/Andy2244/jellyfin-androidtv-zidoo
Thanks for the help and advice though... shame I could not 100% resolve my problem with just that.
UPDATE: Andy's JF Zidoo client fork from late 2022 works! Direct play to external player using the direct network path setup for the libraries... Just as I want. Let's hope the JF team add the same feature, as Andy is no longer supporting that Fork, and it's always good to get the latest features.