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by Someone1234 850 days ago
Unfortunately I've had nothing but headaches with Jellyfin's media streamer. I'm doing a local Jellyfin to their AppleTV client, and it is just glitchy as heck.

Plex is almost as good as Netflix's player, meaning completely reliable. Jellyfin's server maybe good, but their clients leave a lot to be desired.

The main problem with Jellyfin is that there isn't much money to pay for development. Open Source is great, but developing a half dozen or more clients to unfun work.

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Use Infuse instead of the Jellyfin client that way you avoid having to transcode media. I'm running jellyfin on a raspberry pi and I have no problems whatsoever.
I've had very few problems (though I'm using an NVIDIA shield), but yeah that polish is what made Plex appealing at first.
Hm? Can you share what's your problem with Jellyfin? I am actually working on hosting my own media library through it lately.
Try Infuse Pro, it works perfectly with a Jellyfin server.