Never thought I’d see a screenshot of myself posted like this. It’s… kinda weird.
Lol you’re famous now
What is jellyfin? What is this?
Jellyfin is a FOSS alternative to Plex. In simple terms, is a media streaming software. Download and host your media on one computer, stream it to other devices
It’s a media server that lets you access movies/tv shows/music from other devices via apps or a web interface. In this post’s case it’s talking about the Jellyfin app on Roku that lets you watch/listen to stuff through Roku devices.
In my experience it’s been pretty nice and easy to use, and the Roku app’s decent enough for what I’m after, which is simply watching stuff from my PC on other tvs in other rooms.
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Btw here’s a link to the post OP screencapped: https://social.linux.pizza/@tgpo/111551351394147888That’s me 😀
I like to post video demos of new features I’m working on, so if anyone wants to see previews of what’s down the pipeline, check it out.
Who are you? Who am I? Wait, is this a dream?
Seriously, though. Jellyfin is the bees knees
Anyone know what’ll be included with this? I tell people that use my server to use it with a Roku since that usually gives the best experience on a TV.
The full list is SUPER long (we did a ton of work on this release), but here are some of the highlights:
- A reworked User Select Screen and Auto Login setting
- New OSD with chapter skip functions
- Music Video support
- Quickplay support expanded to entire app
- TV show season extras support
- TV episode version select
- Search honors library permissions
- New “Use Web Client’s Home Section Arrangement” Setting
- Native support for the AV1 codec (no more user setting)
- Boxsets now sorted by release date by default
- View your music library by Album Artists
- Custom subtitle support (required for CJK support) expanded
- Alpha menu now wraps from bottom to top & top to bottom
- When connecting to a new server, automatically attempt connection using default protocols and ports if not specified
- Updated loading spinner similar to the video player spinner
- Use TV show posters (if available) instead of channel posters for the “On Now” home section
- Device Profile has been rewritten and improved
- Improved “Next Episode” button logic
- Movie and music libraries now sorted A to Z by default
- Fixed several bugs that could crash the app
- Many (oh so many) bug fixes
Nice, I switched the main TV to Google TV, but my other den TV still has a Roku client, can’t wait to see how this works on it.
For me I love the Roku client, but the lack of support for embedded subtitles was killing me for my local rips :(
I’ve been using emby. Which seems ok, but a little buggy sometimes like with handling video files it can’t play.
I’ve been thinking of switching to jellyfin for some time now. Should I expect the experience to be better?
I’ve been using it for a couple months now on a NixOS setup, I had issues before I split my media collection so shows and movies are in different collections. Now that I’ve done that, I haven’t had any noteworthy bugs. There are some missing features on certain platforms, namely the current roku app doesn’t support multi audio movies and shows and will only use the primary audio track. Hopefully that’s resolved with this update.
I have been having a blast with Jellyfin. I run it as a docker container on an old computer. I went from Plex to Jellyfin, and I think it is comparable.
Release notes are now available here.
So very many!
