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GitHub - damontecres/Wholphin: An OSS Android TV client for Jellyfin (github.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Just wanted to share it. I just discovered it. Looks cool

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

I've been using it for a little while now - I prefer the UI of the official app, but Wholphin is the only way I can consistently and properly play everything in my library with 0 transcoding.

I have a ShieldTV+AVR setup that can handle every media format out there, but for some reason the default app always transcoded Atmos & DTS audio (or just refuses to play if I disable transcoding entirely).

Wholphin does not have this issue, and now everything plays flawlessly with 0 overhead.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Might be a jellyfin setting. I discovered that while the players report the device capabilities (with some caveats), some edge cases make the server still transcode video because it instructs certain formats to always transcode. There are too many variables and the server plays it safe. The biggest culprit is bitrate.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Have everything set to max (AndroidTV is wired, easy gigabit rates to NAS). I've tried literally every setting I can think of and it just continually spits back transcodes for DTS & DA content.

    Doesnt matter if video is 4k HDR Remux or 1080p encode.

    It's the second most commented open issue on the Jellyfin Android TV Github (https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-androidtv/issues/281). If you can crack the case you'll make a lot of people happy :D

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