[Glide]

I just _refreshed_ my setup replacing my shield and trying to get Emby and Kodi working together…

This looks great especially since I have complete collections of various sci if stuff I loved growing up (Star Trek: TNG, Star Gate). The big thing for me is how this supports sitting on the couch and looking for something to watch.

[unethical_ban]

I've been using Jellyfin on Windows server (Arc GPU) for server, Shield for client, it's been working pretty well. What hardware are you using?

[VTimofeenko]

I am thinking about picking up a shield as a client in a similar setup. If you're using subtitles -- does the shield handle them well? That's the part that keeps breaking in the native TV client.

[JeremyNT]

I use Kodi with the jellyfin plugins on my shield and it works well. Subtitle support is pretty good but occasionally I need to restart the app to get new subs to display for a show.

The native jellyfin client is ok for simple things but it's far more limited than Kodi.

[unethical_ban]

The subtitles I use are most often ones in separate files alongside the video files, named appropriately for the jellyfin server to see it. I think embedded subs work well too, sometimes needing burning in, but my server can handle transcoding.

[gh02t]

There are some quirks with using Jellyfin+Kodi with external subs. It used to be solved by the "direct play" feature in Jellyfin4Kodi where it would just pass Kodi a link to the SMB/NFS shares, but the newest releases of Jellyfin have deprecated and hidden the server side feature that enabled that. I had a talk with the devs about it on GitHub and they don't really know if/when it's gonna come back.

[entropicdrifter]

The Shield uses the same Jellyfin client as any AndroidTV/GoogleTV box. You can use Kodi on the Shield if you want native support for more subtitle formats, but that's also true of other AndroidTV/GoogleTV devices.