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v2.0.5

Jellyfin on Roku v2.0.5 is scheduled for release on the Roku channel store Wednesday, February 21, 2024 10:00 AM Pacific Time

What’s Changed

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix sporadic crash when viewing libraries by cewert
• Prevent crash when homesection setting is invalid by 1hitsong
• Fix 2 sporadic crashes on home view by cewert
• Only show Next Episode button if there is a next episode by 1hitsong

Release notes

v2.0.4

Jellyfin on Roku v2.0.4 is scheduled for release on the Roku channel store Monday, February 12, 2024 10:00 AM Pacific Time

What’s Changed

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix crash when attempting to play an in-process recording by VTRunner

Release notes

Right now I'm running Jellyfin on an old mini-PC with a Celeron J4105. That seems a bit underpowered. I'm using Linux Mint and the installation is with Docker. I'm looking to replace it with something better, so what would you recommend? My criteria are:

• Easily available (second hand is fine)
• Budget friendly (under € 500 would be nice)
• Repairable
• Upgradable (at least SSD and RAM)
• Low power consumption at idle
• Handles all the transcoding stuff without breaking a sweat
• Plays nice with Linux

I guess my best bet would be some sort of second hand mini PC like they're being offloaded on eBay by the truckload. But I have no idea which particular models would be a good fit for me. I'm also fine with buying something new, of course.

Hi everyone,

I have put together a simple python script to automatically transcode all your favorited music on Jellyfin to a directory, for use with, for example, Syncthing. This has made it dead simple to manage the subset of my music library I keep downloaded on my phone: simply favorite to add, unfavorite to remove.

I'm hoping that someone out there finds it useful. Let me know if you have any questions.

Jellyfin on Roku v2.0.3 is scheduled for release on the Roku channel store Tuesday, February 6, 2024 10:00 AM Pacific Time

What’s Changed

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix crash if video has no audio stream by 1hitsong
• Fix playback of movie additional parts by 1hitsong

Release Notes

I spent a decent amount of time making a nice web application to wrap up the functionalities of yt-dlp, makes it really easy to follow content through Jellyfin!

Have a look if you have the chance, I think people could make good use of it: https://github.com/MattMckenzy/ToothPick

I have my JellyFin on a dedicated server outside my home. I use a domain, with and SSH certificate. Before I moved to the domain and the cert I just had an IP:Port setup. At that time JellyFin worked perfectly fine with the windows app, but after moving to the domain and adding an SSH cert, it no longer wants to connect. It works perfectly fine in FIreFox though, so I'm curious if it's worth trying to figure out why it won't work in the app, or is using FireFox just as good.

Server: Ubuntu.
Client: Roku.

When I play an episode of a TV show, if I pause I see the name of the episode, but it doesn't show which season or episode number.

E.g. I might see:
Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life

But I would like to see something like:
s22e05 - Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life

Or maybe even better, something like:
The Simpsons - s22e05 - Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life

Is there some way to enable this?

Additional question...

This is even more annoying because sometimes when I pause, or fall asleep, or shut off my tv/roku, the "Continue Watching" list on the home screen doesn't even have where I left off. (Sometimes it does. That seems like a bug to me.) So then I have to go track down the season and episode number where I left off.

The easiest I found was going to each episode and editing the subtitles then uploading the file (even though they are in the same directory)

I’m assuming if I named better then it wouldn’t be an issue since the subtitles are named “e1, e2, etc”

Something like displaying a banner or a pop-up message?

TL;DR if the Roku app is failing to play back some videos recently, try turning on "Text Subtitles Only" in playback settings

So I'd been having this issue where certain videos would fail to playback in the Roku player (but only on Roku, playing from the Android app, the browser, or directly all worked). The video would get stuck buffering at 33%, but after a minute or so it'd finally stop with "There was an error retrieving the data for this item from the server". Transcoding issue? I'd been trying to figure this issue out for a few hours over the course of a few days. I don't recall having this issue before mid-December, and as I learned today apparently there was a big update to the Roku app.

Anyway, my first real clue was using "ffmpeg -i video.mp4" to compare the codecs of a known working video and a not working video. The non-working video was showing an issues with subtitles. So after poking around in the Roku client's settings I saw the "Text Subtitles Only" option in playback settings, and enabling it worked!

Hopefully someone sees this and it saves them a headache. I had to postpone my personal movie night like three times trying to figure this out

Jellyfin on Roku v2.0.2 is scheduled for release on the Roku channel store Tuesday, January 16, 2024 10:00 AM Pacific Time

What's Changed

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix default text subtitles not showing when Text Subtitles Only option is enabled by 1hitsong
• Allow default subtitles to enable global caption mode by 1hitsong
• Prevent unneeded video stop/start when turning off text subtitles by 1hitsong
• Fix saved credentials when using multiple users by cewert
• Fix song data out of sync if changing songs quickly by 1hitsong
• Fix QuickConnect by jimdogx
• Fix sporadic crash on home screen by cewert

Release notes

I have all my TV and films stored remotely. However having installed Jellyfin, I've noticed that the metadata folder is quite large. Is it possible to stick that all on my NAS too?

Can I essentially have

        volumes: 
          - /opt/jellyfin/config:/config
          - films:/data/movies
          - TV:/data/tvshows
          - jellyfinmetadata:/config/metadata

As the title says, is it possible to set the default video player to use per TV series? I tend to switch between MXPlayer and JustPlayer depending on the content (JustPlayer for most content and MXPlayer for some sub heavy content). However, it's annoying to have to select the player every time I start an episode. Additionally, this makes playing a show on shuffle in the background pretty tedious.

Would it be possible to have it so that show A always just plays using JustPlayer and show B always plays using MXPlayer?

Hello!

My router is an Archer AC1350 and it has a USB port for plugging an external HDD as a network shared storage.

I was wondering if anyone tried that kind of setup with Jellyfin on Android, specifically on an Nvidia Shield?

Does it work? How well? If not, then should I invest in another kind of network storage soluion?

I guess its as the title asks, is it worth hosting Jellyfin if you already have a DLNA server set up?

Bugfixes

Disable tunneling #3296, by @nielsvanvelzen

When the video is nearly finished this little box pops up prompting you about what video is going to play next, could we get a button to mark the current video as a favourite?

My jellyfin server is all set up and ready to go.l, but I want to replace my Kodi box, it is just painful.

Is there a nice way to setup a rPi to run as a client, that just turns on and looks like a media centre? Ie, it loads up and is ready to go at power on?

Ta

I've looked everywhere and it's looks like there isn't any. I'm running jellyfin on windows and I'm using it to access my image and videos library from my phone. The default jellyfin for android is great but its lacks performance and using it to play videos feels too clunky, also i know there are other solutions like immich and photoprism that are doing the same thing and they have a solid android clients but using docker is too much for my needs.

Jellyfin on Roku 2.0.1 is scheduled for release on Tuesday, January 9, 2024 10:00 AM Pacific Time.

What's Changed

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix startup crash by cewert
• Fix selecting episode using OK button on episode list view by 1hitsong
• Fix selection and display of subtitles that are not encoded by 1hitsong
• Fix video playback for Roku devices running a version of Roku OS less than 12.0 by 1hitsong
• Make music artist presentation views honor the Item Titles setting by 1hitsong
• Fix launching Live TV channels from outside the guide by jimdogx
• Fix default subtitle track selection by 1hitsong

⭐ Additional Updates

• Fix version check job (again) by cewert
• Make GH jobs work with new branch workflow by cewert
• Update What's New content by 1hitsong

Release Notes