> Jellyfin

I wanted to self-host Jellyfin, but hit the problem. It's bad at the main thing that player should offer - media playback.

If you open https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/codec-support/ you can see that this doesn't support HDR and that doesn't support H265. There is Jellyfin Desktop and it breaks when display scaling is over 100% (what year is it?). Some clients have atrocious subtitle support. And then none of them apparently can't properly pace frames so I still see judder as if I'm on 60 Hz screen (24->60 can't be even translation). But my screen can do up to 165 Hz, so that should never be the issue.

In then I just went back to playing media files from Samba share with MPC + madVR. No automation or catalogization or anything, but it is supreme at actually displaying things, and that's what it's important to me.

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ivanjermakov 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I understand use cases for Jellyfin and selfhost it myself for music (in combination with incredible Finamp[1]), but for movies/shows plain MiniDLNA[2] works like a charm and is accessible from any device.

[1]: https://github.com/finamp-app/finamp

[2]: https://minidlna.com/

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singron 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I used jellyfin-mpv-shim. You select what to play from any ui and it starts playing in mpv, which seems to have excellent support for everything you would want a player to do.

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flaunf221 14 hours ago | parent [-]

Tried it too, it still had judder as all other clients I've seen. I think it's either server software problem or maybe all clients fail to do this properly.

	▲	rossy 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		video-sync=display-resample in jellyfin-mpv-shim's mpv.conf should fix frame pacing

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viceconsole 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Fair, I just never use the web clients. I mainly use the Android phone or TV apps, which do support H.265. The Android TV subtitle support seemed ok, I think I did have issues with the Roku app and subtitles.