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Small plug to ask for help with the Apple TV App? Swiftfin is really rough but the best option. It’s quite terrible, never refreshes, overlapping text constantl

Small plug to ask for help with the Apple TV App? Swiftfin is really rough but the best option. It’s quite terrible, never refreshes, overlapping text constantly. It could use some love.

JamesSwift 3mo ago
I tried to get involved (in very minor ways) a while back but got basically no engagement from the project so I just let it be. I moved to infuse instead as my ios client and its been good overall. I really hate its list performance on large collections though.
- magarnicle 3mo ago
  Yeah Infuse is actually usable.
- dantetheinferno 3mo ago
  Same. I wrote a really big upgrade to the Jellyfin iOS App to support Chromecast (https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-ios/issues/16 https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-ios/issues/16), got crickets :( Best of luck to the folks leaving. Supporting OSS isn't easy.
clayhacks 3mo ago
There’s some alternatives. I like JellyTV, pretty smooth UI. Streamyfin has a beta for the TV as well, and continues to improve. But yeah definitely some of the tougher part of the ecosystem
dd8601fn 3mo ago
I had some issues with it too, though not as bad as you seem to have experienced. Good new is they're reworking it, heavily, and seem to be near a new release. For my own purposes I cloned it and pushed the build to my AppleTV... and it's considerably better than the last app store release (quite a while ago). I'm not suggesting anyone do the same, but just saying your problems might be about to solve themselves.
eisa01 3mo ago
They just released the first update in years, v1.5 I understand it will be kept in sync from now on Requires tvOS 26
stasomatic 3mo ago
Infuse is polished, I lack nothing in it on ATV.
- JamesSwift 3mo ago
  The way they do their list rendering is infuriating for large collections. Instead of showing titles + shimmer, its just big blobs of loading placeholders. So to find where you are in your list of movies you have to stop scrolling and let the content finish loading to get your bearings. Its minor overall, but as a former app dev, poor list performance drives me crazy.
  - jonpurdy 3mo ago
    Also, for files in a directory with the same prepended string with long filenames(like full_show_name - S01E01), it displays just a fraction of the full filename in a list. I need to sit there and wait for the filename to scroll horizontally to see what the actual episode number or name is. Instead of just showing the full filename on multiple lines, or showing the filename below the thumbnail. Also: - Flattens folders with a single file in it (so foldername/file.mkv shows up as just file.mkv in the parent folder), no way to disable this (https://community.firecore.com/t/avoid-flattening-tv-show-folders/18829/8 https://community.firecore.com/t/avoid-flattening-tv-show-fo...) - Doesn't show landscape artwork (embedded .png), only portrait, and if the embedded artwork is not portrait it grabs a random frame from the file instead of cropping the embedded artwork (https://community.firecore.com/t/use-landscape-artwork/26878/22 https://community.firecore.com/t/use-landscape-artwork/26878...) - If you exit a video before it's ended, but it's close to the ending, it marks it as played (so if you go back in you lose the playback position) (https://community.firecore.com/t/infuse-skips-end/23504 https://community.firecore.com/t/infuse-skips-end/23504) Yes, I have these links handy because I've been tracking these issues for years and they're still not fixed.
  - stasomatic 3mo ago
    Eh, my media is ephemeral, I don’t rewatch things. I’m sure as a former dev you could whip up your own in a couple of weekends and a Show HN :)
Hikikomori 3mo ago
I use moonfin on my shield, seems to exist for apple tv?
tbeseda 3mo ago
Keep an eye on Neptune. I used Swiftfin, switched to Infuse, and am now using Neptune daily. It's coming along really nicely. https://neptuneplayer.com https://neptuneplayer.com

Small plug to ask for help with the Apple TV App? Swiftfin is really rough but the best option. It’s quite terrible, never refreshes, overlapping text constantly. It could use some love.

JamesSwift 3mo ago

I tried to get involved (in very minor ways) a while back but got basically no engagement from the project so I just let it be. I moved to infuse instead as my ios client and its been good overall. I really hate its list performance on large collections though.

magarnicle 3mo ago
Yeah Infuse is actually usable.
dantetheinferno 3mo ago
Same. I wrote a really big upgrade to the Jellyfin iOS App to support Chromecast (https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-ios/issues/16 https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-ios/issues/16), got crickets :( Best of luck to the folks leaving. Supporting OSS isn't easy.

clayhacks 3mo ago

There’s some alternatives. I like JellyTV, pretty smooth UI. Streamyfin has a beta for the TV as well, and continues to improve. But yeah definitely some of the tougher part of the ecosystem

dd8601fn 3mo ago

I had some issues with it too, though not as bad as you seem to have experienced. Good new is they're reworking it, heavily, and seem to be near a new release. For my own purposes I cloned it and pushed the build to my AppleTV... and it's considerably better than the last app store release (quite a while ago). I'm not suggesting anyone do the same, but just saying your problems might be about to solve themselves.

eisa01 3mo ago

They just released the first update in years, v1.5 I understand it will be kept in sync from now on Requires tvOS 26

stasomatic 3mo ago

Infuse is polished, I lack nothing in it on ATV.

JamesSwift 3mo ago
The way they do their list rendering is infuriating for large collections. Instead of showing titles + shimmer, its just big blobs of loading placeholders. So to find where you are in your list of movies you have to stop scrolling and let the content finish loading to get your bearings. Its minor overall, but as a former app dev, poor list performance drives me crazy.
- jonpurdy 3mo ago
  Also, for files in a directory with the same prepended string with long filenames(like full_show_name - S01E01), it displays just a fraction of the full filename in a list. I need to sit there and wait for the filename to scroll horizontally to see what the actual episode number or name is. Instead of just showing the full filename on multiple lines, or showing the filename below the thumbnail. Also: - Flattens folders with a single file in it (so foldername/file.mkv shows up as just file.mkv in the parent folder), no way to disable this (https://community.firecore.com/t/avoid-flattening-tv-show-folders/18829/8 https://community.firecore.com/t/avoid-flattening-tv-show-fo...) - Doesn't show landscape artwork (embedded .png), only portrait, and if the embedded artwork is not portrait it grabs a random frame from the file instead of cropping the embedded artwork (https://community.firecore.com/t/use-landscape-artwork/26878/22 https://community.firecore.com/t/use-landscape-artwork/26878...) - If you exit a video before it's ended, but it's close to the ending, it marks it as played (so if you go back in you lose the playback position) (https://community.firecore.com/t/infuse-skips-end/23504 https://community.firecore.com/t/infuse-skips-end/23504) Yes, I have these links handy because I've been tracking these issues for years and they're still not fixed.
- stasomatic 3mo ago
  Eh, my media is ephemeral, I don’t rewatch things. I’m sure as a former dev you could whip up your own in a couple of weekends and a Show HN :)

Hikikomori 3mo ago

I use moonfin on my shield, seems to exist for apple tv?

tbeseda 3mo ago

Keep an eye on Neptune. I used Swiftfin, switched to Infuse, and am now using Neptune daily. It's coming along really nicely. https://neptuneplayer.com https://neptuneplayer.com