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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What bugs have you had? I don’t use it heavily, but I haven’t run into any myself.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Works pretty well in Chrome in my experience. At least on iPad.

EDIT: though to be fair I mainly use it to cast.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Emby clients still work decently well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I use VidHub on my IPhone and MacBook, there is also phyn as an option. All are present in the AppStore

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Your definition of a year is not really correct: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They're referring to the two mobile client apps on iOS, not JF itself.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

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