I loaded my entire Plex movie library in to Jellyfin and at first everything was going great. Realized pretty quickly some files won’t play on my Apple TV. I tried multiple Jellyfin apps for ATV but I imagine the issue is the transcoding on the backend.

I understand mixing open source software like Jellyfin with closed source Apple products is a weird combo. But I’m not willing to ditch my Apple TV right now.

I confirmed the video files that weren’t playing via Jellyfin played no problem via Plex. Plex continues to make decisions that make me want to switch to Jellyfin, but it also seems Plex’s transcoding is better. Am I doing something obviously wrong?

Edit: Looks like Raspberry Pi 5 doesn’t pay nice with Jellyfin when it comes to hardware acceleration :(
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/post-install/transcoding/hardware-acceleration/#raspberry-pi-hardware-acceleration-support-deprecation

  • SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Infuse is not free. It’s not Open. Its devs are a bit obscure.

    But, hands down, it’s the best option for tvOS. It’s the only subscription I pay for.

    • harsh3466@lemmy.ml
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      Yeah. It’d be great if it was open source, but it is what it is.

      When I was on apple stuff it was the only subscription I paid for as well.