Aweful experience on small bandwith

[heeelga]

Hi,
I'm running Jellyfin for a couple of months now.
I've put so much time in migrating everything from Plex to Jellyfin, I just needed it to be good. Tbh I was always a great fan of Plex and its third party tools like Tautulli but privacy got me concerned over the last years.

Yesterday I went to my girlfriends appartment and we tried watching a 4K movie. The performance was aweful as she doesn't have a great internet connection, but at least 30mbit/s and nothing else was streaming/downloading/etc.

I can't believe there is still no option to reduce the quality per movie/episode in Jellyfin on AppleTV?!

We ended up using a Macbook screen with Jellyfin over Safari, reduced the quality there which was ok but not a pleasant experience.

It's hard enough to get people convinced Jellyfin is the better option over Plex which runs on a every possible device and your toaster.

I can live with a lot of Jellyfins limitations but this missing feature is almost a deal breaker for me.

What do you guys think?

Cheers
Markus

[thornbill]

Use what works for you. 🤷‍♂️

[mildlyjelly]

You could probably make a feature request: https://features.jellyfin.org

I doubt very much Jellyfin is better than Plex, but I still like Jellyfin better.
When recommending a media library to someone, I make sure they know of Jellyfin, but I suspect for most, Plex is the better option.

Plex is a for profit product and so they have a lot of money and incentive to make it an easy, feature rich experience because if they don't, they don't make money.

Jellyfin is a free open source project built and ran by volunteers. The only money involved is their expenses, which they have recently asked people to stop making donations to the project because the donations have far exceeded their expenses. https://opencollective.com/jellyfin/upda...-seriously

You could also try contributing to the project: https://jellyfin.org/contribute/
Doing so will free up time and resources of others to implement the specific features you want.

[ThomasPGH]

We ended up using a Macbook screen with Jellyfin over Safari, reduced the quality there which was ok but not a pleasant experience.

On slow connections I usually download the film early enough, then watch the downloaded copy with VLC.