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

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[–] HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Plex's transcoding may be better, but jellyfin's will work fine once you get the settings dialed in. A bit more info would be helpful, mainly: What kind of jellyfin install (docker, native package manager, podman)? What video codec is the file? Are you using hardware transcoding, and if so, what hardware?

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Docker (via CasaOS) running on a rasbury pi 5 with 16gb ram. Same exact hardware I’m running Plex on. I understand it’s not ideal hardware but I’m only looking for as good of performance as Plex.

[–] HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What about the video file that won't play? Do you have logs?

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don’t, and you’re right that’s the first thing I should have done. I was hoping it was set and forget but I obviously have to dive a bit deeper. I guess I’m wondering before I invest a lot of time, is it possible to get an experience as good as Plex, or should I expect to hit a wall at some point? I’m happy to donate to Jellyfin devs and consider this a longer term investment but I hope it surpasses Plex.

[–] HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I've never used Plex or apple TV, so IDK. But, I have been using jellyfin for a while and it's been quite reliable for me. You will need to invest a bit of time, but after that there's very little maintenance needed.