I wish they’d fix the screen off while audio plays on android issue.

Thats a client config issue not a server issue.

Go to settings > client settings, enable the background audio with the checkbox:

Go to settings > client settings, enable the background audio with the checkbox:

That definitely does not fix the issue. Not sure if it is just certain devices or Android versions or whatever that have that issue, but having that checked makes no difference for me in recent months. Even with that setting enabled, if I start playing a video then switch to another app, the audio keeps playing for three seconds or so and then just cuts out. The video keeps playing in the background, but no audio.

Maybe you can try to enable the “run in the background” battery saving option?

It’s set to “Unrestricted":

Besides, like I say, the video does keep playing in the background, it is just the audio that cuts out after a few seconds.

How about battery saving settings? Or data saver? (I constantly use battery saver, and it’s pretty aggressive with restricting processes)

Did you disable the battery saver setting? On some android flavours it can ignore the battery/background usage

You can try streamyfin which is enabled by default, but what’s likely happening is that your phone is disabling it as a background app. I’d check your phone settings for power management/pausing background apps. I can tell you that audio only playback with the screen off and as a background app works just fine with JF (official client), I was just using it that way earlier today.

i wish they’d fix the black screen and not returning to home after episode ends issue/feature, and also not being able to scroll after manually returning home. can’t use old enough versions anymore where it still worked right (2023 versions and older i think)

Try Findroid. I found it to be a better overall experience.

Or if just looking for a solution too music, Finamp is pretty good as well

I’ve been using Jellyfin for years, on different hosts. Music has never worked on any of my devices - there’s a bug where you try to play a track and it ignores you and plays the first track off the album instead. You can literally never play anything after that. To be fair, I haven’t tested this in six months, but it was a consistent bug for years before that and I’ve tried every client under the sun. Nowadays I use Jellyfin for video and Navidrome for audio instead and it’s all good.

I really just want the fireTV app of Jellyfin to not be so dogshit.

I got tons of cool plug-ins running on my server that work fine via desktop/mobile… but access the server using the FireTv app and you’d never know. No mediabar enhanced, no seasonal, no achievements or local ratings…

That’s developed by a different team

You should see the Tizen version…

Though neither are made by the Jellyfin tram, and they’re both dealing with the constraints of the underlying dogshit hardware/software

Idk if Wholphin will fully fit your needs, but that’s what I use on my FireTV and we love it. It looks sleek as hell and has sone plugins like Serr requests. Weirdly though, it takes longer to load an ep on there compared to my laptop or phone.

Now THAT is a changelog.

Really excited about the query performance improvements, and the improvements to subtitle handling.

I’m wondering if this has anything to do with the team lead changing?

A big push in features that had been waiting on the back burner?

Can’t speak to that, I’m not involved. All I know is that,

• Jellyfin server gets significant upgrades in subtitle capabilities and performance,
• Jellyfin AdroidTV just released an RC that finally includes direct play for ASS/SSA subtitles,
• and on Monday, I FINALLY resolved a hardware issue (faulty cable) that made my Jellyfin almost unusable whenever ASS/SSA needed to be played (and only in that situation. Fun!)

So yeah, I don’t know or really care about leadership change, I just know it’s gonna run like a rocket now 😄

I’m so curious what the cable was and how it affected only ass/ssa subtitles?

Haha. Might have slightly exaggerated. But only slightly.

The Proxmox host in question has a 1Gbit connection to the NAS. (Unfortunately. The other hosts don’t have a GPU, but SPF+… Oh well, can’t have everything.)

At some point in the last couple of months, it must have been damaged, and negotiated down to only 100Mbit. This must roughly have coincided with the Jellyfin 10.11 update, since I remember thinking that it must be the cause, due to close proximity of update and first issues.

Anyways. For basically everything in my library, 100Mbit is fine. Streaming an episode NAS->Jellyfin and Jellyfin->TV at the same time basically never saturates the link.

BUT, from what I’ve gathered by digging through Jellyfin issues and PRs, there’s a separate issue where Jellyfin will pull the episode, and if you need subtitles extracted from the episode file server-side (to transcode them in, if the clients can’t play them), it will at the same time pull the episode AGAIN, and together with the Jellyfin->TV direction, that’s frequently enough that it saturates the link.

Symptoms is (was) either a 20-30s wait before the episode would start playing, or complete freeze.

However, I believe this particular issues has been solved for a while. I’m not sure, because I instead opted for the Subtitles Extractor Plugin, which runs nightly and pre-fetches all the subtitles and stores them on the Jellyfin VM itself.

Where it was still noticeable though was if one of [Library Scan/Trick-play Extraction/Subtitle Extraction/Media Segment Scan] ran while playing an episode, the server would completely lock up.

Long story short: cable swapped, 1Gbit, all issues gone.

whoops!! that’s an interesting overlap of issues! glad a new cable did the trick (and that jellyfin fixed that).

What a great software

The reason is the feedback we got after 10.11.0, which we first raised in January and confirmed in May. A release like 10.11.0 was, by any reasonable measure, a major release - it rewrote the library database - but the version number presented it as a minor update, and people upgraded with expectations to match. The leading 10. never changed and never told anyone anything, so all it did was push the number that actually mattered into the middle position and make “major” releases look minor. Dropping it means the first number moves when the release is big.

lol. All the Jellykins in here lost their minds when this was pointed out.

I dont get why they didn’t just call that update 11.0? Or use that for this update?

I guess if you’re changing the semantics of your version numbers its also a good idea to introduce a deliberate discontinuity to mark the change?

This one goes 1 more than 11

I was confused too, but I guess their logic is that 10.11.x is 11.x.x. They might have been more explicit about that.

My guess is that people would call the 10.11.x update something like .11.x instead of the full version because “they don’t change the first number anyway” and it would cause confusion to call the next update version 11.x.x so they just jumped to 12

Multiple versions for episodes

❤️

Edit: so I have two libraries, 4K and HD because of different viewing locations. Transcoding 4K to HD is not an option, hardware is too slow for that.

Now my multi quality tvshows get combined into one “view” per show which is nice. But it seems it still shows seperate episodes per quality and does not track viewing progress yet sadly or am I missing something?

Can you in theory set the servarr stack to fetch multiple languages of the same media now, when available?

I don’t think seer, sonarr, or radarr support that but in theory could. You’d also need your sources to have a good way to supply those details in a good way as well. I wish they had a good way to filter for languages now as I hate dubbed anything.

I don’t have the arr stack now, but when I fiddled with it a year or two ago I had to set one language. I ended up scrapping it because of it and just continuing with the streaming services. I also hate dubbed anything, but have small kids who want to see their shows in Norwegian. Switching them over to English on shows or movies they already know in Norwegian would be a great way for them to learn. Maybe I get to watch the Disney movies in English with them finally.

The annoying but workable answer is to run two instances, one for each language.

You’ll need multiple instances, which is what I do for different reasons.

So you have multiple servarr stacks as well as jellyfin?

Multiple sonarr instances, multiple radarr instances, one prowlarr, one qbittorrent, etc.

And one JF instance with different libraries for each.

I see! Thanks 😊

Are you able to differ easily between the jellyfins on client devices like Apple tvs?

There’s only one Jellyfin instance, its just additional libraries as mentioned.

Well, kind of, I have other JF instances as lxc’s but not for that reason.

Sorry, but why not just fetch a single media file with multiple languages?

Of course, if it is available then that would be a good option. But if not then I would want it to download one of each.

That’s not as common of an occurrence as multiple versions of movies, but I have sure had a few instances when I wanted that for a TV show episode as well. That is certainly a welcome feature that I am looking forward to.

Working as designed.
They mentioned this behavior in the notes.

I’ve been running the RC’s, smooth sailing in all regards.

Using Wholfin as my main client on all compatible devices, works great.

I’ve tried multiple Jellyfin apps for TV and all but VoidTV refuse to play Atmos with DV. 5.1 works, but 7.1 doesn’t. Including the offical Jellyfin app. It’s odd because it used to work until it didn’t.

Same here with DoVi profile 7. I installed CoreELEC on a USB stick and boot my player (Xiaomi TV box 3) from that if I need DoVi 7. My guess: Anyone setting up and maintaining a JF instance should be comfortable doing the same.

Ho ! Thanks, I was quiet pissed with the way Jellyfin on android TV was so slow (maybe the embeeded android is to blame), I will try Wholfin to see if anything enhances

FINALLY. it’s been so many candidates and every one has so many bug fixes

Let me guess, another price increase.

Jellyfin is free. What price? :D

linuxiac.com/plex-lifetime-pass-jumps-to-750-jell…

That’s the joke.

I can confidently say that the Jellyfin team intend to raise the price 10x the previous price.

Those bastards! I knew it!

Plexing their muscles, as usual.

Thank you for the reminder to donate to them <3

Please donate to your favorite client maintainer (if 3rd party) or another project.
The core team stated that they already have enough funds.
(Look at the funds that are still unusued): opencollective.com/jellyfin

The price increased 4 times over the previous price.

, and . scrub frame-by-frame during playback

That is exactly how MPV does it. But from what I remember, VLC devs claim it’s impossible, so VLC only allows you to scrub forward frame-by-frame, not backward. You can skip backwards in three-second increments or whatever, just not frame-by-frame at all. It’s the main thing that keeps me using MPV as my default video player, because I frequently skip around videos trying to get a screenshot of the perfect frame to use to make a meme or something. Being able to scrub frame-by-frame in both directions is a big deal.

There’s a VLC addon that is able to do it. addons.videolan.org/p/1154013/

So, every time I want to go back one frame, I have to open that plugin from the menu and then respond to that dialog window? That is certainly more cumbersome than the way MPV/Jellyfin do it, where scrubbing is just a keyboard shortcut. Even if I assigned a keyboard shortcut to activated that plugin (I assume that’s possible), I still have to respond to that dialog box?

When I scrub through a video to get the perfect frame to screenshot, the experience is usually something like:

1. Pause video, no that’s not the right frame
2. Scrub back five frames, not right
3. Scrub forward one frame, looks closer
4. Scrub forward one frame, looks closer
5. Scrub forward one frame, that’s almost what I want
6. Scrub forward one frame, that’s worse, I guess I went too far
7. Scrub back one frame, settle on that one

Using MPV, that’s pretty simple because each step there is just a keystroke that takes zero effort and zero time. But if each of those steps also required me to respond to a dialog box, that would just make the process tedious.

Updated on Ubuntu, installed package is 12.0 for Server+Web, but clients still show server version 10.11.11

Do you try turning it off and back on again?

Haha. I did.

From the changelog:

Packaging

• Debian Bullseye and Ubuntu Focal packages are no longer built

Are you maybe running Focal?

I’m on Ubuntu and it reports server and web to be v12. Also the ui is different. Same happening on web interface & Android app.

Cleared your cache?

I did (both web and app), but that’s not it. It shows one of three shown versions as 10.11.11, even when I open the web on my phone where I don’t open the web ui, so the cache is out of question. It is no big deal, everything works as it should.

What kind of client? In browsers usually CTRL + F5 solves those kinds of problems for me. In other cases (apps?) force quitting and restarting the client might help.

Just clear your browser cache ;)

Ctrl+F5

Is anybody who updated already using Findroid? Just wondering if the update breaks anything in terms of 3rd party apps.

Runs fine for me with jellyfin v12 and findroid on both tablet (LineageOS) and phone (GOS)

Awesome, thanks for the confirmation!

(Take a look at the patch notes which warn about it amd tell you to wait or look at the changelogs from the project)

How do you get this to work remotely easily for old people on smart tvs?

You go and meet them.
Best case if you can set up a s2s vpn.

Tailscale is a pretty good option if said old people have an Android or Apple TV, not sure about availability of Tailscale on any other OSs. Run it on your server and the TV client, grab the Tailscale IP from the dashboard and enter [Tailscale IP]:[Jellyfin port] when the Jellyfin app asks for the server address. You could homebrew a VPN too. Only other option would be a domain name and a reverse proxy.

Only other option would be a domain name and a reverse proxy.

This is how I set it up for my family and friends. Works like a charm, especially if you have a dynamic IP. Everyone just signs in through whichever app they want to use.

this is the way imo. I also took the time to disable internal authentication and hook up authentik via the ldap auth plugin. so for my users, I can text them a link, they set up their credentials and verify their email, then they can sign in to jellyfin with the same creds and it automatically creates a profile and everything.

Domain + reverse proxy. The security issues some people here claim are significantly overblown.

I’m so happy that I got the 253 years subscription.

Ha! Shows what you know. I got a 256 year subscription at only 10x the price!

Wao, I got ripped off. I’m a fucking moron.

best money I’ve ever spent

Are there different hardware requirements? I’m running on a raspberry pi 4, and as soon as it tries to load my movies the entire server crashes. This happened with the first release candidate, but seems to still be happening.

Did you report the issue?

Not yet. I’ll have to mess with it more when I get home tonight.

My wait for OIDC support for sensible client logins continues

I agree with you but also about 90% of watching on my instance happens on smart TV’s. So even though I would like to have oidc supported for the occasional phone/pc user I would still need something basic that a TV can use.

Smart TVs should be able to support OIDC easily out of the box.

And if it didn’t, you can just use a Device Flow

Looks like my move to navidrome for music is paying off :)

Seems strange to push books over Audio.

I’m happy to see such a huge list of achievements through. Especially the endpoint hardening.

Sad to see still no 2FA,

Progress is progress; it’s still free and open.

Most people I know run it behind a VPN, so 2FA is less critical.

Most people I know use Plex so they don’t have to.

I’m hoping we can change that eventually.

Is anyone else experiencing slowness and sometimes freezing after updating? This is mostly happening when I go to my home screen, and the server CPU load spikes.

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Is there a Samsung TV app yet? I’ve heard it’s out for some…

I had some issues with config changes, but it’s working now :)