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Tried Jellyfin, but it doesn’t seem to have the capability to stream directly to my TV, it always wants to transcode it which strips away all the 4K and HDR nic

Tried Jellyfin, but it doesn’t seem to have the capability to stream directly to my TV, it always wants to transcode it which strips away all the 4K and HDR niceties. While Plex would try its best to preserve the original stream and only transcode what the TV can’t support. Also Plex’s clients are more polished, it actually feels like I’m browsing my own Netflix. You can always turn off third party content in Plex (by unpinning them). I only use Plex locally so maybe that’s why I’ve been missing all the cloudy bloat lol.

ekianjo 4y ago
Use a fire TV stick that costs virtually nothing and install the Jellyfin app. You are done.
- afavour 4y ago
  “Buy an entirely new streaming device to use this service” is never ever a good answer. “Buy an ad-infested, Amazon tracking streaming device” also feels entirely antithetical to Jellyfin’s open source mission so there needs to be a better answer than that.
  - ekianjo 4y ago
    > “Buy an ad-infested, Amazon tracking streaming device” You don't even need to use the amazon services. Just run the Jellyfin app and that's all you need to keep alive as a service, the rest you can blacklist. There are also ways to root those devices if you want to remove ads and more.
- vachina 4y ago
  Yeah these sticks tend to use low powered SoC that chokes on anything higher than 1080p, not to mention missing codecs (Dolby Vision, ATMOS, DTS etc.) and lack of compliance. If you don’t care about any of those or have a TV that don’t do 4K then yeah an Android box and lower fidelity source will do.
  - kennend3 4y ago
    >Yeah these sticks tend to use low powered SoC that chokes on anything higher than 1080p Is this the case on the "4k" version as well? i have both the original (1080p) and 4K version on my newer TV's and havent noticed it "choking"?
  - ekianjo 4y ago
    You have the 4k version of the stick these days that's still super cheap.
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ThrowawayTestr 4y ago
Emby has direct streaming but I've had problems with it. But it's free and the TV app is alright.
prometheon1 4y ago
I had issues getting it to stream directly to my TV. It wasn't easy to find but what solved it for me was changing the DLNA profile settings like this example: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-docs/issues/233 https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-docs/issues/233
- vachina 4y ago
  Does it do partial transcode? My TV doesn’t support DTS and Plex would transcode it to AC3 and remux with the original video stream before feeding it to my TV.
  - prometheon1 4y ago
    Sorry, no idea

ekianjo 4y ago

Use a fire TV stick that costs virtually nothing and install the Jellyfin app. You are done.

afavour 4y ago
“Buy an entirely new streaming device to use this service” is never ever a good answer. “Buy an ad-infested, Amazon tracking streaming device” also feels entirely antithetical to Jellyfin’s open source mission so there needs to be a better answer than that.
- ekianjo 4y ago
  > “Buy an ad-infested, Amazon tracking streaming device” You don't even need to use the amazon services. Just run the Jellyfin app and that's all you need to keep alive as a service, the rest you can blacklist. There are also ways to root those devices if you want to remove ads and more.
vachina 4y ago
Yeah these sticks tend to use low powered SoC that chokes on anything higher than 1080p, not to mention missing codecs (Dolby Vision, ATMOS, DTS etc.) and lack of compliance. If you don’t care about any of those or have a TV that don’t do 4K then yeah an Android box and lower fidelity source will do.
- kennend3 4y ago
  >Yeah these sticks tend to use low powered SoC that chokes on anything higher than 1080p Is this the case on the "4k" version as well? i have both the original (1080p) and 4K version on my newer TV's and havent noticed it "choking"?
- ekianjo 4y ago
  You have the 4k version of the stick these days that's still super cheap.
- deleted 4y ago
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ThrowawayTestr 4y ago

Emby has direct streaming but I've had problems with it. But it's free and the TV app is alright.

prometheon1 4y ago

I had issues getting it to stream directly to my TV. It wasn't easy to find but what solved it for me was changing the DLNA profile settings like this example: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-docs/issues/233 https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-docs/issues/233

vachina 4y ago
Does it do partial transcode? My TV doesn’t support DTS and Plex would transcode it to AC3 and remux with the original video stream before feeding it to my TV.
- prometheon1 4y ago
  Sorry, no idea