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The fact that Jellyfin lacks a AppleTV/tvOS app seems like it continues to make it a dealbreaker... at least for my setup.

I hear people recommending clients like Infuse, but it feels odd to swap out Plex at this point if I can't go all in on the open source side of things.

Am I missing something here wrt Jellyfin clients? I guess I could try running it side-by-side with Plex and see how it goes.

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Swiftfin is the tvOS app: https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin

It is in the pipeline at least: https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin/discussions/1294

As my needs are quite simple, I currently just use VLC with a SMB share. Works quite well, VLC is able to play standard .mkvs just fine! http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-appletv.html

Oh, and this just dropped - a new open source Jellyfin client: https://github.com/ghobs91/mediora

Even supports some of that *arr stuff

Jellyfin has three AppleTV apps!

SwiftFin is what I use, and it is the free and open source option. Works great.

Before that stabilized I used Infuse, but it wasn't great.

MrMC is another one I haven't tried, but it definitely supports Jellyfin.

Ah! I didn't realize that the official client's page was filtered by "recommended" by default.

I wonder why the officially developed SwiftFin isn't shown as recommended? I guess maybe because it's still considered beta.

That's exactly it- they've been putting a ton of work into it over the last two years, and their latest release is by far the best.

There is also VidHub which I've been playing around with. It's also paid but it's cheaper than Infuse.

I use Infuse on an appletv and simply point it at a samba share. Easiest setup ever. What am I missing out on by not using jellyfin or plex?

Jellyfin offers tracking across devices and easy notification of "new" media - Infuse alone had to scan the share now and then which was cumbersome.

I really like the infuse jellyfin setup. Only two things that bugs me are 1: Choosing a movie and then cast member wont show all shows/movies for that casr member, only the cached ones. No big deal but a bit of a petpeeve. 2: And I think this might not be solvable from Jellyfin but more than one version/quality of a tv show episode shows up as a seperate show episode and not version of the same episode. Might not be a Jellyfin issue since InFuse cant handle that in stand alone either. Havent tried the jellyfin clients to see the difference there.

There Swiftfin, Jellyfin Mobile, and Streamyfin at least. My forthcoming iOS-only music player has first-class Jellyfin support (beta sign-up: https://forms.gle/AGLePh9RtaYEfDH6A) if you're looking for a dedicated, offline-capable music app.

> Am I missing something here wrt Jellyfin clients?

Unfortunately, I don't think so. I had many issues with playback on ATV using Swiftfin. Infuse works very well, so it is worth the ~$15 yearly to me. I am hopeful that Swiftfin will improve over time, they have a few dedicated developers working on it.

I have Kodi running on a raspberry pi plugged into my Google TV. The Jellyfin plugin for Kodi works flawlessly so far for me. It’s just great! Sure if I could put Jellyfin directly on the TV, that would save me the RPi. But not a big deal for me.

Jellyfin has Swiftfin, I’ve been using it for a few years now.

There are some small bugs that you can work around. The rework to the new version has been in progress for about two years but it works just fine right now.

Small bugs? May be. But there’s a lot of lack of functionality and stability. I’d recommend InFuse if anyone is hitting those problems. If it has been running fine for you then there’s no need to switch. The problem is related to source codec. Depending on that you’ll have difference experience. So that’s why the experience varies because there’s vast differences in source formats. A good client not only handles well on some sources, but many if not all.

My parents and brother use Infuse. I would use it even over the official Plex app.

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