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After Years of Waiting Jellyfin Finally Lands on Samsung Tizen TVs (linuxiac.com)
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Samsung Smart TV owners can now use Jellyfin natively, as the open-source media server is now available on the Tizen platform.

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[–] 20 points 9 months ago

Game changer

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    [–] 13 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Wow this is great news!

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Literally just went through getting the app built /deployed for my parents and my partner's parents using the old method a few weeks ago. I'm super glad the app is on the app store, but it's just bad timing for me lol

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    • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    Wait, I don't have to update it through dev mode?

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    [–] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I had to practically hack my Samsung TV I order to get jellyfin on it. A little annoyed it took this long but at least its there now.

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    • [–] 66 points 9 months ago (24 children)

    People into Jellyfin use smart TVs? I haven't connected mine to the internet.

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  • [–] 82 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Not every Jellyfin user is also the server administrator. If someone sets up a server and shares that server with 5 people, most of those users aren't concerned with the privacy implications of how they connect to the server; they just want to consume content as easily as they do with Netflix, Disney, etc.

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  • [–] 39 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    I do? I don't love Android TV but I only have so much time to fight to the good fight with shit.

    I would like a less smart tv but I don't want to by a 7 year old Nvidia Shield and suffered paralysis by analysis trying to decide on on an Android TV box.

    So here we are, I use jellyfin on a smart TV

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    And how much better would a TV box even be compared to a smart TV?

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Not much if there isnt even much HDMI-CEC support.

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  • [–] -3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It pisses me off that the reason most tech get filled with ads and shit is because people want to use it but are not bothered to learn anything about it. Like input selection, they need to press one button and everything has to be setting itself up without interaction or they will complain it's too hard.

    Then the ad company makes shit to make it seem easy but fills it up with spyware and ads. Lazy People adopt the easy way and endure the shit that comes with it while bending for more.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Out of curiosity why are you reluctant to buy a Shield?

    I was on the fence for a while but I've been extremely happy with it and have only run into minimal issues (and significantly less than with my smart tv before).

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago*

    I have a shield. Without setting up a custom launcher it is an ad ridden nightmare (by default). Even though I spent a comparatively large amount of money for old hardware, I still get bloat.

    But I don't know any better option that is easy to use and has a simple android box like remote so. :/

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  • [–] 30 points 9 months ago

    Having a smart tv doesn't mean you must use internet to utilize it. Mine is blocked from internet connectivity but connects to my media server on the local network. If anything, I prefer this so I don't need an extra computer sitting in the living room and can instead use the same single media server my phones and computers do.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    It's handy to share media with my family! The Roku app works OK

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    We have both.

    Kodi use Jellyfin for its media library and Kodi is excellent for a lot of the TV we watch. catch Up TV has replaced the decoder for watching terrestrial TV.

    One thing that sucks in Kodi though is Arte (a franco-german channel that is a leans towards "intellectual"). For that, the LG WebOS app is much better than the Kodi add-on. Other than that 1 app, we could happily plug Kodi into digital signage panel if they weren't stupidly expensive.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    It's relatively easy to restrict a smart tv to TLS/HTTPS traffic only using your router and a dns adblocker.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Its even easier to never let it on the network.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (4 children)

    just saying its possible

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

    You have to do a lot of work. You would have to keep up on what domains it's using (which were in the dozens four years ago for samsung), and make sure it doesn't use some as kill switches if it finds something blocked.

    We aren't stopping just ads, we are stopping spying, data sharing, snooping, network mapping, etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah. To be honest on the DNS side it would probably be far easier to just do a whitelist instead, block everything except your specific service. and yeah, its a stupid amount of work. i hate smart tvs but i'll be damned if im gonna pay extra for a streaming box =|

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    pretty cheap relatively speaking, and usually a lot more flexible depending on what you use.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    to get something as flexible as my android tv i'd need an nvidia shield and those are going on ten years old at this point. maybe if/when they do a hardware refresh, assuming sideloading isn't completely impossible by then.

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    • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    That's awesome! I had to side load it and it was such a pain in the ass i just bought a Chromecast.

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    • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    i reckon ill unblock it from WAN long enough to get a new app

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    [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    I use it through tailscale. I can still use it locally (yay). Still would like to see tailscale on tizen

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    [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Omfg. I love you. 😭. I tried this very last week to make it work through their workaround and it never wanted to work out. Thank you so much bringing this up.

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    [–] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

    Just run a small linux pc and a wireless keyboard+mouse

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  • [–] 25 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I use libux btw

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  • [–] 25 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    My gosh I just searched for libux, thinking maybe there was a great new Linux user experience out there for my media library. I even got confused for a split second when it autocorrected my search to Linux before realising the typo

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    • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I'm still not connecting NY TV to any network, local or otherwise.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Apparently they will try to connect to open networks and try to tunnel through to get internet, so I set bogus manual DNS, gateway, and ip info so it can't connect to anything correctly.

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    • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    hell yeah

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    [–] 4 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Kodi running on an (old) Nvidia Shield Pro, reading from a NAS via dlnr. This works nicely and I don't get any quality degradation... Except for HDR+ which the shield doesn't support and I was stupid and bought a Samsung TV, which is bad for numerous reasons, but also this one.

    And of course, we are now closing in on the decade since it was released, and still no viable replacement.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

    Replacement for what? kodi? you'll pry kodi out of my charred and flayed hands! (American)

    EDIT nvm can't be kodi. forgive me.

    but yes i love kodi

    edit edit,

    any old Chromebook can run LibreELEC!

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I tried Kodi years ago when I heard about some guy getting busted at a local flea market for selling Kodi rigged appliances. I didn't download anything, but that UI was atrocious. After about 5 minutes of tinkering around, I just uninstalled it. Probably one of the worst UI's I've encountered.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I've hacked mine together with a control4 system i pulled out of a dumpster, with a handheld remote it is quite navigable!

    kore app/yatze on phone or direct selection of media from home assistant, you really don't have to see the GUI that much at all if you'd prefer not to.

    smart playlists, addons for other features.

    i think it's a swell front-end for a media server!

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    • [–] [B] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    IP Internet Protocol
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    Plex Brand of media server package

    4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 5 acronyms.

    [Thread #55 for this comm, first seen 2nd Feb 2026, 19:20] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

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    [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    I only own one Samsung TV. Its a really smart TV. Its magnificent. It never switches input which is a good thing since I never need to. This is because it has no built in services of the so called 'smart tv's"

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    [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I thought newer Samsung tvs ditched tizen?

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    [–] -1 points 9 months ago (21 children)

    Ok, now fix the shitty client on appletv...

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    yes, unpaid open source devs, do my bidding.

    fix it yourself, ExcessShiv

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    As an opensource dev I don't mind having people say this. It's good to get feedback regardless of whether it's a call to action or merely a suggestion. You can't know what direction people want the project to go in otherwise.

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  • [+] -16 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Dude no one is forcing them to work on the project, they can just ditch it if they don't want to do it anymore. Just because it's free people are still allowed to voice opinions on the project, sure my comment is tongue in cheek, no one cares...welcome to the internet, is this your first day?

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    As my parents said:
    The tone in your voice makes the music.

    There is a significant difference between

    "I just hope the devs can now focus on improving the AppleTV/iOS viewing experience"

    and

    Hopefully the devs will now fix the shitty Apple app.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    Just because it's free people are still allowed to voice opinions on the project

    Just because Lemmy is free, people are allowed to voice opinions on your comment, and judge you by it. It's my opinion that you're an asshole, and that your opinion is equally worthless.

    I wish I could go to your parents and say something like, "OK, now fix the shitty attitude on @ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com.", but you probably got it from them in the first place.

    Are you this shitty to people who submit pull requests to your dog-shit bug-ridden open-source software repos? Do you even have anything that's open-source and tries to solve a problem?

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  • [+] -11 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Are you this shitty to people who submit pull requests to your dog-shit bug-ridden open-source software repos? Do you even have anything that's open-source that tries to solve a problem?

    Of course, obviously I am the only infallible person in the universe...scrub

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    people are still allowed to voice opinions

    ...

    now fix the shitty client on appletv

    is not an opinion, it's just being a jerk

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  • [+] -22 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    Fix the shitty server first though.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    My server works fine with all other clients though, except the appletv one. In the appletv app I cannot change audio language or reliably change subs. Or, technically I can, it just doesn't select the language I actually choose, it chooses some random one. This only happens on appletv app, it works as intended on all other devices, both android, iOS, browsers and MS/Linux clients.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Infuse works great on Apple TV. It’s the best Jellfin experience. Although infuse is free to use it requires a subscription to play all media formats, in practice not free.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah it doesn't work with your own media server on the free tier, so they can go fuck themselves.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Mine's working just fine. Why isn't infuse free tier working for you?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    When I try to point it at my server, I'm prompted with a page saying it's only possible in the paid tier

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    • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Great news, but still not available on mine. I have to wait. Also dev way didn't work on mine.

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    [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Really wanted to like Jellyfin but it just can’t replace plex yet for me. Once it’s developed a little more I’ll definitely take another look since plex is shitting the bed.

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    [–] -3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    That looks like a web view. I have that webview installed for years.

    This is false news. Maybe, now it is in the store but the app is not new on tizenos.

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