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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[–] horse@feddit.org 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In my honest opinion it's not worth trying to get Jellyfin working if you plan to use an Apple TV as the client. The only client that is halfway decent for Apple TV is Swiftfin and it's nowhere near as polished as Plex. The watched/unwatched indicators also don't work currently (at least for me), which is a dealbreaker imo.

I'm running Plex and Jellyfin side by side. The only thing I'd use Jellyfin for is remote streaming. It's a shame, because I really want to switch to Jellyfin, but it's just not working for me because Apple TV support is so bad.

[–] timmytbt@sh.itjust.works 5 points 21 hours ago

Disagree. Jellyfin and ATV could definitely be better, but for the most part it works for me without issue.

Try using the Infuse app instead of Swiftfin. Again, not perfect but it’s the best client I’ve found.

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

That was kinda the vibe I was getting. What’s holing Jellyfin back atm? I would be willing to donate if that would help

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Client support is imo one of the major weak points of Jellyfin. Jellyfin itself does not need donations at the moment, but developers of various clients do [1].

But many client devs don't take donations. E.g. Swiftfin links to Jellyfin's OpenCollective page instead of taking donations themselves [2].

[1] https://opencollective.com/jellyfin/updates/were-good-seriously
[2] https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 day ago

Donating would not help unless you're a dev willing to donate your time to develop the client