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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[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

For a client on apple tv, ios, etc, check out Infuse. Hands down best client on Apple.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Infuse is not free. It's not Open. Its devs are a bit obscure.

But, hands down, it's the best option for tvOS. It's the only subscription I pay for.

[–] firepenny@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Anyone remember when infuse was a jailbreak tool for the Apple TV 2?

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wait, whaaaat?

[–] firepenny@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, so Fire core built infuse off the software call Seas0npass that was used to jailbreak the AppleTV 2. Infuse was what would inject code into the AppleTV.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

lol thanks for that!

[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah. It'd be great if it was open source, but it is what it is.

When I was on apple stuff it was the only subscription I paid for as well.

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

I actually already purchased infuse. Same issues with playback so I guess that means it’s definitely on the backend. Apparently the Rasbury Pi version of Jellyfin no longer supports hardware acceleration. Anyway, sound like Infuse isn’t FOSS but I did appreciate that it’s a one time purchase and not a subscription.