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I love Jellyfin and the fact it exists is amazing, but I try it every three months or so and it feels like while there's amazing progress, it's still on the last 20% of work left before it's entirely painless. The web player would just not load subtitles every other video, and there's no native player (yet!) for my family's TV. From what I've gathered from Github, all problems I encountered are being worked on (I even tried to fork it and fix a thing myself but failed miserably), so hopefully in a year or so it'll be the Emby killer.

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I switched to Jellyfin fully (from MythTV) shortly after its fork from Emby a couple of years ago.

I would suggest taking another look at it. It has really improved over the last couple of years and seems to have a very active development community that is engaged with its users. They have a dedicated subreddit and they post there a lot. [0]

I find the web interface functional enough, but the dedicated "Jellyfin" apps for Roku or Android are slightly disappointing still. They are definitely usable, just not as slick as better commercial apps. However, there is an excellent Jellyfin for Kodi addon, and that is what I use on PC and Android TV. [1]

I do have an actual mini ITX PC to host the media, an old-ish i3, which I would strongly recommend over something like a Pi.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/

[1] https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/kodi.html

Came to say I too am quite happy with the Kodi Jellyfin plugin. (The webapp is great too).

Yeah I literally meant that I try it every three months or so, and it really does improve continually. As they say, I'm watching its career with great interest, at least until the time I'm using it and I don't find a frustrating bug where the easiest workaround is to go back to Emby.

> The web player would just not load subtitles every other video

I had the opposite problem where it would not stop showing subtitles every time I opened a new video. I think it's reading a default provided by the video file and just using that.

Yeah, I tried Jellyfin, but I had problems when running from a Pi 4. Severely slow and unplayable on both Roku and Android clients, with and without hardware acceleration. Emby seems to work fine though, as does Plex.

I've gotten it to work hosted on an RPi4, but only if you can completely prevent video transcoding.

I've got it running from a Pi3 with no issues serving to multiple roku clients simultaneously. I'm also really happy with how the roku client has gone from just working to well polished in the past year, even on my first gen device.

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