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I just _refreshed_ my setup replacing my shield and trying to get Emby and Kodi working together… This looks great especially since I have complete collections

by Glide 2y ago

I just _refreshed_ my setup replacing my shield and trying to get Emby and Kodi working together… This looks great especially since I have complete collections of various sci if stuff I loved growing up (Star Trek: TNG, Star Gate). The big thing for me is how this supports sitting on the couch and looking for something to watch.

unethical_ban 2y ago
I've been using Jellyfin on Windows server (Arc GPU) for server, Shield for client, it's been working pretty well. What hardware are you using?
- VTimofeenko 2y ago
  I am thinking about picking up a shield as a client in a similar setup. If you're using subtitles -- does the shield handle them well? That's the part that keeps breaking in the native TV client.
  - entropicdrifter 2y ago
    The Shield uses the same Jellyfin client as any AndroidTV/GoogleTV box. You can use Kodi on the Shield if you want native support for more subtitle formats, but that's also true of other AndroidTV/GoogleTV devices.
  - JeremyNT 2y ago
    I use Kodi with the jellyfin plugins on my shield and it works well. Subtitle support is pretty good but occasionally I need to restart the app to get new subs to display for a show. The native jellyfin client is ok for simple things but it's far more limited than Kodi.
  - unethical_ban 2y ago
    The subtitles I use are most often ones in separate files alongside the video files, named appropriately for the jellyfin server to see it. I think embedded subs work well too, sometimes needing burning in, but my server can handle transcoding.
    - gh02t 2y ago
      There are some quirks with using Jellyfin+Kodi with external subs. It used to be solved by the "direct play" feature in Jellyfin4Kodi where it would just pass Kodi a link to the SMB/NFS shares, but the newest releases of Jellyfin have deprecated and hidden the server side feature that enabled that. I had a talk with the devs about it on GitHub and they don't really know if/when it's gonna come back.

by Glide 2y ago

unethical_ban 2y ago

I've been using Jellyfin on Windows server (Arc GPU) for server, Shield for client, it's been working pretty well. What hardware are you using?

VTimofeenko 2y ago
I am thinking about picking up a shield as a client in a similar setup. If you're using subtitles -- does the shield handle them well? That's the part that keeps breaking in the native TV client.
- entropicdrifter 2y ago
  The Shield uses the same Jellyfin client as any AndroidTV/GoogleTV box. You can use Kodi on the Shield if you want native support for more subtitle formats, but that's also true of other AndroidTV/GoogleTV devices.
- JeremyNT 2y ago
  I use Kodi with the jellyfin plugins on my shield and it works well. Subtitle support is pretty good but occasionally I need to restart the app to get new subs to display for a show. The native jellyfin client is ok for simple things but it's far more limited than Kodi.
- unethical_ban 2y ago
  The subtitles I use are most often ones in separate files alongside the video files, named appropriately for the jellyfin server to see it. I think embedded subs work well too, sometimes needing burning in, but my server can handle transcoding.
  - gh02t 2y ago
    There are some quirks with using Jellyfin+Kodi with external subs. It used to be solved by the "direct play" feature in Jellyfin4Kodi where it would just pass Kodi a link to the SMB/NFS shares, but the newest releases of Jellyfin have deprecated and hidden the server side feature that enabled that. I had a talk with the devs about it on GitHub and they don't really know if/when it's gonna come back.