Jellyfin/Kodi Issue

[hjames19]

Hi,
I’m trying to use kodi as my movie player and jellyfin as my movie server to help organize and correct movie information. There are certain movies that play fine using the Jellyfin add on and some that won’t. I think it’s movies that have higher bitrate or have Dolby Vision 7 that stutter and buffer constantly. I'm not sure which one. 

After this happened I uninstalled the Jellyfin addon and added the movies directly to Kodi database from my HDD on my network to see how it would play. And it played the same movie that constantly buffer with Jellyfin without any issues. So I think the problem is somewhere in Jellyfin. I also have all the transcoding options disabled on the Jellyfin server side, I assumed this would allow for better picture quality when playing the movies through Kodi.


Is there another program that I could use to help maintain my movie library? I can’t stand how Kodi handles the movie info. 

Thanks!

[qwerty12]

After this happened I uninstalled the Jellyfin addon and added the movies directly to Kodi database from my HDD on my network to see how it would play. And it played the same movie that constantly buffer with Jellyfin without any issues. So I think the problem is somewhere in Jellyfin.

Heh. In my layman opinion, it sounds like you would benefit from the, as of Jellyfin 10.10.0, now-removed native mode. In native mode, Jellyfin supplies the movies' metadata and paths to the Kodi client, while Kodi itself handles reading the files' content itself over NFS, SMB etc. In addon mode/with the JellyCon addon, the Jellyfin server reads the file and handles serving it out over HTTP(S); Kodi gets what the Jellyfin server gives it.

If you have time to kill, you could try running a modified version of the Jellyfin for Kodi addon with this: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-kodi/pull/926
I should warn you that the Jellyfin for Kodi addon developers have said they don't use native mode themselves, and with official support for the feature removed from the Jellyfin server itself, well... While I would be very thankful for their mercy if they didn't remove the code responsible for native mode support on the Kodi side, I couldn't blame them if they decided to ease up the maintenance burden on themselves.

All that said, I'm not saying native mode is the solution to your problems; I'm a basic user and I don't know anything about tuning Jellyfin.

Is there another program that I could use to help maintain my movie library? I can’t stand how Kodi handles the movie info.

The main/well-known alternatives to Jellyfin still support Kodi with "native mode" functionality, but I don't want to mention them by name, as futile as that may be. I think it's a little crass to do on the Jellyfin forum and they're not really free as in beer or the Stallman sense. There's also programs that will write out Kodi metadata files (nfos), like tinyMediaManager and MediaElch, which Kodi will unquestionably use as the sole source of metadata for a movie but that question is better suited for the Kodi forum.

[hjames19]

Yeah I was trying to figure out the Jellyfin native method because I agree that I think that’s what I need here. But I couldn’t get it figured out and never got it to work. I’ll try that Jellyfin addon you posted above. Thanks!