2024-06-01, 12:37 PM
I'm trying to set up Jellyfin on a computer connected to a TV, which can be navigated only by a keyboard. Currently trying the official JMP, but it feels like this use case has never even been thought of.
- Navigating by the arrow keys is very choppy. There's no scroll animation when the screen scrolls, so with every keypress it feels like I teleported to some other part of the page, even though it just scrolled a tiny bit. I've enabled the smooth scroll setting, but it didn't do anything.
- Navigating the library is difficult. I'm trying to migrate from Jriver Media Center, and there you just start typing, and when you stop typing, it will jump to what you typed. Just the first letter or two is enough to get you where you want. With JMP, there's no such thing, and you're left with mashing the arrow keys to navigate to your movie that starts with a Z. There's search, but it's also unnecessarily difficult to navigate to, and as it doesn't let you jump to a certain point in your library, you have to know exactly what you're looking for.
- Choosing subtitles is very unintuitive. When choosing a movie, there's the drop-down menu for the available subtitles, but it's unreachable by arrow keys unless you "know the trick", which is very unnecessary. You default to the play button, but pressing down jumps past the subtitles to the tags. You have to first press right to the trailer icon, and then down, because apparently the page is a grid and the drop-down is in the second column.
This is just what I've gathered only after scanning my library, before I've even really started using it, so there's probably more issues coming. But are these solvable? Have I just missed something obvious? I'm using the Display Mode = TV setting already.
- Navigating by the arrow keys is very choppy. There's no scroll animation when the screen scrolls, so with every keypress it feels like I teleported to some other part of the page, even though it just scrolled a tiny bit. I've enabled the smooth scroll setting, but it didn't do anything.
- Navigating the library is difficult. I'm trying to migrate from Jriver Media Center, and there you just start typing, and when you stop typing, it will jump to what you typed. Just the first letter or two is enough to get you where you want. With JMP, there's no such thing, and you're left with mashing the arrow keys to navigate to your movie that starts with a Z. There's search, but it's also unnecessarily difficult to navigate to, and as it doesn't let you jump to a certain point in your library, you have to know exactly what you're looking for.
- Choosing subtitles is very unintuitive. When choosing a movie, there's the drop-down menu for the available subtitles, but it's unreachable by arrow keys unless you "know the trick", which is very unnecessary. You default to the play button, but pressing down jumps past the subtitles to the tags. You have to first press right to the trailer icon, and then down, because apparently the page is a grid and the drop-down is in the second column.
This is just what I've gathered only after scanning my library, before I've even really started using it, so there's probably more issues coming. But are these solvable? Have I just missed something obvious? I'm using the Display Mode = TV setting already.