Cool implementation. Never occurred to me Jellyfin could serve as a streaming platform on its own! I’ll probably find the answer after sending this reply (may be helpful to others), but does it come with this functionality out of the box, or is any plug-in needed?

How probable is it that this kind of method can be patched or obfuscated further? I assume that since the HLS stream is always at the core, it’s a matter of just finding alternative ways to dig through it.

Any quirks this implementation has wrt. things like quality or additional delay? Thanks! I’d like to try out if your methods could be used to make some sort of snippet that could be sent to VLC that’s running on a TV or streaming device.