Hey! Since Jellyfin and Swiftfin weren’t updated for about a year now, and there are some bugs that bother me, I’m wondering what you guys use instead of them :)

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[–] nezbyte@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

The Infuse app has a connector for Jellyfin that works fairly well.

[–] Bimbleby@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Infuse is the answer, but I hope someday that the regular clients can compete.

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What bugs have you had? I don’t use it heavily, but I haven’t run into any myself.

[–] jaykay@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The Jellyfin app itself doesn’t support Direct play, which ruins it for me straight away. Not to mention it’s just the web version in an app anyway.

Swiftfin app is fine, but it doesn’t have PiP, when you open a series, the episodes don’t show up until you select the season again. (There is an issue on GitHub for it and it’s been there for a year now https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin/issues/653 ). You can’t mark episodes as watched, no support for some audio codecs, sometimes wrong audio/subtitles picked and other little things. Still prefer it to the other one but yeah…

[–] atomWood@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

Your direct play and Picture in Picture issues might be resolved if you enable “Use Native Video Player” in playback settings. That being said, Picture in Picture doesn’t always work properly for me.

[–] LienNoir@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I use VidHub on my IPhone and MacBook, there is also phyn as an option. All are present in the AppStore

[–] jaykay@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I tried vidhub but I don’t know if I trust them, they don’t seem to have micro transactions, nor donations, nor is the app paid. The app is not open source, and not really known. So free closed source app with no visible business strategy. Unless they’re really good samaritans. No idea about phyn

[–] LienNoir@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I understand ur reluctancy, i used them on my Mac, MPV doesn't support MacBooks anymore so the Jellyfin client took a hit ( video decoding isn't the best). Phyn is almost the same compared to VidHub but they propose an all in one Jellyfin/Jellyseer app for a subscription, it's free if u re just gonna use for Jellyfin.

[–] kotnik@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Your definition of a year is not really correct: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

They're referring to the two mobile client apps on iOS, not JF itself.