Some people who use my Jellyfin server have access through Roku. The Roku client doesn’t use the user language preferences and has been slow to gain Jellyfin features. They would like to replace it with something that can access Jellyfin and conventional streaming services. What do you recommend? FOSS is preferred but not required. Same for raspberry pi options.
Honestly as much as I hate google, Chromecast has been a pretty flawless jellyfin experience.
4k AV1 support (though I only have a 720p TV, so I got the full HD version), and the jellyfin client is one of the best and most updated.
In the 5 year future I want to be able to have a cheap N100 box (pis are too expensive and under powered in video, maybe the new RISCV SBUs will beef up decoding and be perfect for that a few revisions later) and then throw Plasma Bigscreen on it when it matures and have a fully FOSS streamer, but that won’t work well now.
Maybe it’s because I have a very old Chromecast. But my Jeffyfin+Chromecast experience is far from flawless. It has quite a few random stutter problems. Disconnects between JF on phone and Chromecast… Subtitles not rendered properly or double rendered on top of each other (and too few customization options)… Poor support for codecs so a lot of transcoding needed (which I think is the cause of the aforementioned stuttering, but I’m not sure). Compared to the android TV or web app it’s really not that good imho.
Yeah there is a world of difference between the microusb gen 1 and the newer AV1 enabled ones.
The old ones literally didn’t have their own OS IIRC, you could only cast to them which caused a ton of issues.
The newer ones literally run android TV
Hmm I put off getting a different Chromecast as I didn’t think it would matter. With newer ones you mean the Google TV ones? Or also the Ultra(?) one? I really don’t like what android/Google TV has become. But I can always just put flauncher on it with just JF.