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What do you recommend for a TV client? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/jellyfin@lemmy.ml
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Some people who use my Jellyfin server have access through Roku. The Roku client doesn't use the user language preferences and has been slow to gain Jellyfin features. They would like to replace it with something that can access Jellyfin and conventional streaming services. What do you recommend? FOSS is preferred but not required. Same for raspberry pi options.

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[–] 2 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Honestly as much as I hate google, Chromecast has been a pretty flawless jellyfin experience.

4k AV1 support (though I only have a 720p TV, so I got the full HD version), and the jellyfin client is one of the best and most updated.

In the 5 year future I want to be able to have a cheap N100 box (pis are too expensive and under powered in video, maybe the new RISCV SBUs will beef up decoding and be perfect for that a few revisions later) and then throw Plasma Bigscreen on it when it matures and have a fully FOSS streamer, but that won't work well now.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    It was actually a good choice, as the 4k one doesn’t support AV1 for some weird reason.
    Mine died and I replaced it with the TV Streamer and been very happy with it.

    Yeah it’s Google and the HW is barely better, but the codec support and upgraded remote are awesome.
    Plays anything I throw at it with ease.
    I host on a N100 and it is really good with transcoding files for older devices.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (4 children)

    Maybe it's because I have a very old Chromecast. But my Jeffyfin+Chromecast experience is far from flawless. It has quite a few random stutter problems. Disconnects between JF on phone and Chromecast.. Subtitles not rendered properly or double rendered on top of each other (and too few customization options).. Poor support for codecs so a lot of transcoding needed (which I think is the cause of the aforementioned stuttering, but I'm not sure). Compared to the android TV or web app it's really not that good imho.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah there is a world of difference between the microusb gen 1 and the newer AV1 enabled ones.

    The old ones literally didn't have their own OS IIRC, you could only cast to them which caused a ton of issues.

    The newer ones literally run android TV

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Really? I have one of the old ones and I have no issues casting to it (though I don't use subtitles).

    I do have issues casting web streams, but that happens even if I transcode on my phone, so I don't think it's the Chromecast's issue.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Hmm I put off getting a different Chromecast as I didn't think it would matter. With newer ones you mean the Google TV ones? Or also the Ultra(?) one? I really don't like what android/Google TV has become. But I can always just put flauncher on it with just JF.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Agree, the old ones are not good.
    I just swapped the 4k one with the TV Streamer and been very happy.
    4k high bitrate files play easily.

    Your server of course matters, so make sure it’s up to the task.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    I picked up an N100 box and put Bazzite on it. The HTPC build of Bazzite wasn't working well for me and I don't like the Kodi menu system compared to the Jellyfin UI. Regular Bazzite it is for now. I will be jumping to Plasma Bigscreen at the first chance. Honestly if I could just boot to the Jellyfin UI, I would be a happy camper.

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