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Jellyfin 10.10.0 media server released (jellyfin.org)

submitted 4 weeks ago by petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] mub@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 weeks ago (14 children)

I liked Jellyfin when I tested it last year but it had 3 show stoppers for me.

Samsung app was flakey and had to be side loaded.
Each profile had to use a password and had a full keyboard to enter. Needs a no password option, and a pin pad option.
Not everything played successfully.

Have any of these things been fixed?

[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Not sure what you mean by that. Jellyfin has had an up to date version in the play store for years.
Yes every Profile is separated into its own account, that's by design and will most likely never change. An easy PIN option in the local network existed for years. Now you can even login with your phone app by entering a displayed PIN.
I remember very few media that i had issues with in the past. Depending on the transcode hardware you have some things can be tricky

[–] EtzBetz 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I tried Jellyfin recently and for some reason it doesn't play any media at all when I disable hardware transcoding, even though my media all is 1080 h264/h265 and I don't want to scale. On Plex it always seemed like I could just play everything natively, but Jellyfin seems like it always wants to transcode.

Even if I enable transcoding, stuff won't play nicely because I'm currently on a Pi4 (going to switch in the coming weeks to a proper server), but Plex is fine.

[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 weeks ago

Basically, when you do not run server side transcoding and instead rely on client side support you will run from time to time into issues. Jellyfin does not have the ppl to get every client to work with all the different formats on every hardware.

1080 h264/h265 does not say much about the media format. Those codec differentiate in things like Chroma (4:2:0; 4:4:4, etc) or in color depth like 8 or 10 bit. So not every h264 media file does run on the same hardware. Audio codecs are even more complicated.

I think since i setup my hardware transcoding I ran into a not playable file once. But depending on the hardware it can be worse. On android TV you may have to play around with the settings.

I understand that this can be a deal breaker for some ppl.

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