I migrated to Jellyfin from Plex several months ago and I’ve been struggling to get a good experience on my my Apple TV which is where I watch most of my content. I’ve been using the native Swiftfin app and I’m sorry but it’s awful. Lots of serious usability issues and there hasn’t been a release in over 4 months. I can’t anymore with it.

Gave infuse a try and it seems a lot more polished but it’s a subscription model and I don’t do software subscriptions, especially for something that’s accessing my local data. Not opposed to buying outright but it’s a bit steep at $94. I’ll gladly spend that if it’s worth it, but has anyone noticed any serious issues with Infuse that should make me steer away?

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[–] weedwhacking@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Infuse is so good I’ve been using it on my Mac too instead of the website

[–] tiwenty@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I agree with the others. It's 10€ a year, plays everything on every Apple device I get, and it gets shared to my family. I use it way more than the officiel JF players.

[–] moddy@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hate subscriptions too, but infuse is one of the rare exceptions. Killerfeature: Your appleTV gets DTS-Sound. The missing DTS-compatibility was the main reason I did not want an Apple TV!

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

DTS to PCM conversion. Essentially the same, but only essentially.

[–] rlhe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

I don't do subs either, but I think Infuse is so good I made the one exception. I've been using it for about a year and haven't had any issues. It does everything I've wanted it to do. However, at $10/yr for the subscription, that lifetime price is way too ridiculous. I'll pay the sub and move on to whatever looks better each time the subscription is up for renewal.

I've also read various app reviews that lifetime only applies to the current version (i.e. 7.x), so you'd have to pay lifetime again for the v8. I can't verify this of course, so take it with a pound of salt.

The only irritation I've had with Infuse is that it only understands "aired date" metadata. If you have something in "dvd order" it can't download that. This is a problem people have complained about for quite a while. I don't think this is an issue for you though since I think you're getting your metadata from JF anyway so Infuse doesn't have to do it?

[–] James_Baxter@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have had the same issues, so following for answers.

My best free solution at the moment is to just use the Plex app on Apple TV.

[–] eximo@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Swiftfin is the best free option on Apple TV. It's not perfect but works well enough.

[–] bakaMonoGatari@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It doesn’t work well enough.

on deck shows things at random. Shows that haven’t been watched/updated in years showing at the top of the list for no reason. It’s different every time the app is launched.
doesn’t automatically refresh. Several shows may have been updated/new episodes added while the app is in the background and they don’t show up unless I force quit and relaunch
watched flag on episodes not visible when viewing list of episodes. I have no idea what episode I’m up to without clicking into each one.
now for some reason it doesn’t save my server info and I have to re-enter/log in every single time.

If it weren’t for these bugs I’d be fine with it.