Jellyfin Roku 2.0.0 To Be Released Monday!
Jellyfin is a FOSS alternative to Plex. In simple terms, is a media streaming software. Download and host your media on one computer, stream it to other devices
It's a media server that lets you access movies/tv shows/music from other devices via apps or a web interface. In this post's case it's talking about the Jellyfin app on Roku that lets you watch/listen to stuff through Roku devices.
In my experience it's been pretty nice and easy to use, and the Roku app's decent enough for what I'm after, which is simply watching stuff from my PC on other tvs in other rooms.
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Btw here's a link to the post OP screencapped: https://social.linux.pizza/@tgpo/111551351394147888
That's me 😀
I like to post video demos of new features I'm working on, so if anyone wants to see previews of what's down the pipeline, check it out.
Who are you? Who am I? Wait, is this a dream?
Seriously, though. Jellyfin is the bees knees
Anyone know what'll be included with this? I tell people that use my server to use it with a Roku since that usually gives the best experience on a TV.
The full list is SUPER long (we did a ton of work on this release), but here are some of the highlights:
Nice, I switched the main TV to Google TV, but my other den TV still has a Roku client, can't wait to see how this works on it.
For me I love the Roku client, but the lack of support for embedded subtitles was killing me for my local rips :(
I’ve been using emby. Which seems ok, but a little buggy sometimes like with handling video files it can’t play.
I’ve been thinking of switching to jellyfin for some time now. Should I expect the experience to be better?
I've been using it for a couple months now on a NixOS setup, I had issues before I split my media collection so shows and movies are in different collections. Now that I've done that, I haven't had any noteworthy bugs. There are some missing features on certain platforms, namely the current roku app doesn't support multi audio movies and shows and will only use the primary audio track. Hopefully that's resolved with this update.
I have been having a blast with Jellyfin. I run it as a docker container on an old computer. I went from Plex to Jellyfin, and I think it is comparable.