iOS Jellyfin solution

Hey! Since Jellyfin and Swiftfin weren’t updated for about a year now, and there are some bugs that bother me, I’m wondering what you guys use instead of them :)

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Infuse is the answer, but I hope someday that the regular clients can compete.

I use Infuse both on iOS and tvOS and it works quite well with Jellyfin. Overall a significantly nicer and more native app.

The Infuse app has a connector for Jellyfin that works fairly well.

What bugs have you had? I don’t use it heavily, but I haven’t run into any myself.
- The Jellyfin app itself doesn’t support Direct play, which ruins it for me straight away. Not to mention it’s just the web version in an app anyway.
  Swiftfin app is fine, but it doesn’t have PiP, when you open a series, the episodes don’t show up until you select the season again. (There is an issue on GitHub for it and it’s been there for a year now https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin/issues/653 ). You can’t mark episodes as watched, no support for some audio codecs, sometimes wrong audio/subtitles picked and other little things. Still prefer it to the other one but yeah…
  
  Your direct play and Picture in Picture issues might be resolved if you enable “Use Native Video Player” in playback settings. That being said, Picture in Picture doesn’t always work properly for me.
  
  Thanks, for this list. Although I thought you could mark episodes as played. Maybe I’m misremembering.
  Lack of Picture in Picture is annoying, I forgot it couldn’t do that.

Works pretty well in Chrome in my experience. At least on iPad.
EDIT: though to be fair I mainly use it to cast.

Emby clients still work decently well.

I use VidHub on my IPhone and MacBook, there is also phyn as an option. All are present in the AppStore
- I tried vidhub but I don’t know if I trust them, they don’t seem to have micro transactions, nor donations, nor is the app paid. The app is not open source, and not really known. So free closed source app with no visible business strategy. Unless they’re really good samaritans. No idea about phyn
  
  I understand ur reluctancy, i used them on my Mac, MPV doesn't support MacBooks anymore so the Jellyfin client took a hit ( video decoding isn't the best). Phyn is almost the same compared to VidHub but they propose an all in one Jellyfin/Jellyseer app for a subscription, it's free if u re just gonna use for Jellyfin.

Your definition of a year is not really correct: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases
- They're referring to the two mobile client apps on iOS, not JF itself.
  
  Exactly, if you check GitHub, there are commits to both. But they were updated 1 year ago for Jellyfin and 11 months ago for Swiftfin

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