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How do/would you stream from Jellyfin to a TV?

Currently ripping my DVDs and building a Jellyfin server. Now on desktop and mobile streaming works fine but the Raspberry Pi 4 + Libreelec + Jellyfin/Jellycon Setup i tried has been somewhat janky - both in terms of navigation and also the framerate drops at times though it isn't really an issue.

Pretty sure the folks in the Jellyfin Subreddit/Forums would tell me to just get a Firetv stick, so I was more curious what experiences and recommendations you guys have.

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  • I know it’s an investment, but for the sake of stability and out of box simplicity I recently switched to an Apple TV with Infuse player. I run a Jellyfin server on my desktop PC and browse it through the Infuse app on the Apple TV. It plays everything natively and smooth as butter (including Dolby Vision), and the interface is polished. I wish the app was little more customizable, but it just works.

    • Yeah as far as "just works" goes AppleTV with infuse is really high up there.

      Support for all the lossless audio you want, dolby-vision, perfect framerate switching, etc. Either that or something like a Dune-HD box (no framerate switching bugs, lossless audio, DV, etc) or an NVIDIA Shield Pro (though the value of this last one is not great, hasn't been refreshed in years hardware-wise, more expensive than AppleTV, still has issues with framerate switching not working as well as the looming fact that it feels like Nvidia could kill it and its support off any year now).

      Biggest complaint with infuse would have to be lack of extras support after people have begged for it for a decade. Other than that and having not quite as many sort options as something like Kodi/Libelec it's pretty great. It allows for directplay and pretty efficiently connects to Jellyfin, Plex, etc. You do have to pay for a pro subscription to infuse if your library has 4k/HDR/DV video or uses any audio codecs but AAC and FLAC as they even gate regular Dolby Digital behind payment (the patent on it has expired) and claim it's because they use the official Dolby SDK and have to pay for that. Not a lot of money admittedly, $12 a year, it's peanuts compared to what most spend on streaming services, less than the cost of one month ad-free anything.

  • I have a living room HTPC connected to my tv and have Jellyfin Media Player on that, and it works well. Obviously thats more of an investment than a firestick. Mine was £290 when I got it, I installed linux and I use it for gaming (including locally and streaming more graphically intense games from my PC), watching some streaming services and browsing the internet on my TV.

    I do also have a Chromecast with Google TV stick in another tv. I use that purely for streaming and it also has the Jellyfin App installed.

    I find both my HTPC and Chromecast are good with Jellyfin. No issues at all, good consistent streaming. But note HDR in linux can be finicky if thats important to you. Of course most come with Win 11 so you have that choice too (I wiped windows off mine)

    I do have kodi on my HTPC, works fine with Jellyfin/jellycon but I prefer desktop mode and the jellyfin media player myself. I tend to use the pc with a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard, so dont really use Kodi.

    My PC was £290 but I got one that could do a bit more gaming. You can get them for £100-£160 and they'd likely be more than capable of streaming 4k content. Better than a Pi 4 and more versatile than a £60 4k fire stick (even if more expensive - might be justified if itnopens up new uses for your tv)

    Other option of course is a Raspberry pi 5 - more powerful than the 4. Ive not tested my pi5 with Jellyfin much so cant comment on how it suites the task.

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