7 hours ago
(This post was last modified: 7 hours ago by timbone316. Edited 1 time in total.)
I used to have a Jellyfin server on my Raspberry Pi 3B that ran off of the Buster distro, I think. It was stable and nice, and I never had problems with it. I had one unnmet desire though, which is that I wanted to listen to commentary tracks on my TV as I watched my media. On the Jellyfin Media Player I could, but my Roku and my TCL Roku TV could not switch the audio track. In my journey to be able to watch a kung fu flick with the commentary track, I had to update my rasp pi OS, and that meant starting from scratch as I was not able to backup my library metadata and settings prior (I don't remember why). I updated to Bullseye in an attempt to get things to work, and it still didn't. I also noticed that my Jellyfin server started to be less reliable. I would browse and jump around in the libraries, and it would hang up and get stuck. I thought it was the Rasp Pi locking up, but I was able to access my Plex server and see my media fine. It was Jellyfin that was the problem. I have tried again and again to address it, even today starting from a clean Bookworm installation, only adding a Movies and TV Shows library (no other stuff, no collections or playlists) just to see if it was more stable. Even still, it crapped out on me just browsing to find a movie with a commentary track. After letting it sit for about ten minutes and trying it again, I was able to pick a movie with a commentary track, select it, but when it plays the movie, it plays the main primary audio, even if i click up on my Roku, click the music note button, and show that the commentary track is selected. I can pick any audio track I want, but only the main audio plays.
So now after all this in a vain attempt to be able to switch audio tracks on my TV while I watch, I wish I had stayed in Jessie and left things the way they were. When it hangs up on me, what can I look at to determine what might have happened? Sometimes it's coming back from a show or movie and starting to browse around for something else. Sometimes its just looking through the libraries. Its rarely if ever just from playing. Like if I pick a show, and just let it play, it won't hang up jumping from episode to episode.
Any help would be appreciated, as I am about to find an old Jessie distro, an ancient Jellyfin version that still works on it, and pretend its a few years ago now...
So now after all this in a vain attempt to be able to switch audio tracks on my TV while I watch, I wish I had stayed in Jessie and left things the way they were. When it hangs up on me, what can I look at to determine what might have happened? Sometimes it's coming back from a show or movie and starting to browse around for something else. Sometimes its just looking through the libraries. Its rarely if ever just from playing. Like if I pick a show, and just let it play, it won't hang up jumping from episode to episode.
Any help would be appreciated, as I am about to find an old Jessie distro, an ancient Jellyfin version that still works on it, and pretend its a few years ago now...