Comment by flaunf221
4 days ago
> Jellyfin
I wanted to self-host Jellyfin, but hit the problem. It's bad at the main thing that player should offer - media playback.
If you open https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/codec-support/ you can see that this doesn't support HDR and that doesn't support H265. There is Jellyfin Desktop and it breaks when display scaling is over 100% (what year is it?). Some clients have atrocious subtitle support. And then none of them apparently can't properly pace frames so I still see judder as if I'm on 60 Hz screen (24->60 can't be even translation). But my screen can do up to 165 Hz, so that should never be the issue.
In then I just went back to playing media files from Samba share with MPC + madVR. No automation or catalogization or anything, but it is supreme at actually displaying things, and that's what it's important to me.
I understand use cases for Jellyfin and selfhost it myself for music (in combination with incredible Finamp[1]), but for movies/shows plain MiniDLNA[2] works like a charm and is accessible from any device.
[1]: https://github.com/finamp-app/finamp
[2]: https://minidlna.com/
I used jellyfin-mpv-shim. You select what to play from any ui and it starts playing in mpv, which seems to have excellent support for everything you would want a player to do.
Tried it too, it still had judder as all other clients I've seen. I think it's either server software problem or maybe all clients fail to do this properly.
video-sync=display-resample in jellyfin-mpv-shim's mpv.conf should fix frame pacing
Fair, I just never use the web clients. I mainly use the Android phone or TV apps, which do support H.265. The Android TV subtitle support seemed ok, I think I did have issues with the Roku app and subtitles.