Yes.

Use a custom launcher. I use Flauncher as my home page so it only has jellyfin visible. No ads ever.

You can theme Kodi to look pretty close to Netflix, but not out of the box. As my library doesn’t update too often, I can live with the slower refresh as it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make for the ability to play everything in my library.

Really, for the moat compatibility, a PC with a wireless keyboard is going to 100% of the time work with subtitles.

I switched to Kodi on my Chromecast 4K to fix most of my video playback issues. However, I still have a few cases where Kodi can’t decode the subtitle track, so I use subtitle edit to extract out the srt. Also, getting Kodi to always play subs is tricky, so I remapped the up key on the remote to always enable subs.

Kodi is also slower to show library updates on start, maybe a minute or so later and then it’s don’t with the sync. Maybe I didn’t setup something correctly… Anyway, give it a try. On my Sony with google tv the jellyfin app is great.

Have you tried Kodi?

What’s TDD?

If it just language add the audio track to one of the mkvs. Ignore me I see your episodes are different cuts.

I found using Kodi helped resolve video codec support in my case. It was for AV1 nlon the Chromecast 4k, which doesn’t support AV1, it seems to mostly work for smaller AV1 encodes. I guess it is using software decoding.

Playing them for hardware only is different from paying for hardware and then providing all your personal information 24/7 to them.

Encoding to AV1 is good to cooking CPUs.

I think you can do some settings related to transcoding per user account. Maybe that will help.

This is my take as well, and yet I have an 70+ file PR still pending a complete review… But to be fair that pr required me to change half the code base to change to a new network stackm.

I’m currently on the ZeroMQ boat. What made you go to Rabbit Mq? I need the Pair socket for zeroMq for a project.

I’m running jellyfin docker container on my Synology. Works great, but I don’t transcode. … Which is another rabbit hole.

Ok, just don’t go too far until you are sure the config and database won’t be wiped when you update the image.

Hopefully you setup your configuration folders as an external mount outside the container. 👍

And I just updated my server to the .3 release 😅

I’m hosting on a Synology, but not transcoding.

It’s likely more affordable to host a second jellyfin server on a desktop that is used for transcoding vs getting a NAS with the hardware.

As also mentioned you may not need to transcode unless you want to down mix to reduce bandwidth when not home. For those cases I would recommend you use handbrake and have multiple versions of the content at different resolutions/codecs as needed. Yeah it’s work.

The majority of issue I have when running locally is audio codec compatibility. So I use ffmpeg to reencode and remux my mkvs with the new audio stream. (Typically eAC3)

Does android auto support need a change to the custom rom to work? From their site it just says to install a few apps and it’ll work. I have yet to try a custom rom. I’ll do that when my current phone goes out of support.

TV is working as expected today and yesterday. Also I updated to .2 release this morning. Maybe my TV was updating the other days and killing the app, not sure.