Some people who use my Jellyfin server have access through Roku. The Roku client doesn't use the user language preferences and has been slow to gain Jellyfin features. They would like to replace it with something that can access Jellyfin and conventional streaming services. What do you recommend? FOSS is preferred but not required. Same for raspberry pi options.

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[–] Decq@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Maybe it's because I have a very old Chromecast. But my Jeffyfin+Chromecast experience is far from flawless. It has quite a few random stutter problems. Disconnects between JF on phone and Chromecast.. Subtitles not rendered properly or double rendered on top of each other (and too few customization options).. Poor support for codecs so a lot of transcoding needed (which I think is the cause of the aforementioned stuttering, but I'm not sure). Compared to the android TV or web app it's really not that good imho.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yeah there is a world of difference between the microusb gen 1 and the newer AV1 enabled ones.

The old ones literally didn't have their own OS IIRC, you could only cast to them which caused a ton of issues.

The newer ones literally run android TV

[–] Decq@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Hmm I put off getting a different Chromecast as I didn't think it would matter. With newer ones you mean the Google TV ones? Or also the Ultra(?) one? I really don't like what android/Google TV has become. But I can always just put flauncher on it with just JF.

[–] Bronzie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Agree, the old ones are not good.
I just swapped the 4k one with the TV Streamer and been very happy.
4k high bitrate files play easily.

Your server of course matters, so make sure it’s up to the task.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Really? I have one of the old ones and I have no issues casting to it (though I don't use subtitles).

I do have issues casting web streams, but that happens even if I transcode on my phone, so I don't think it's the Chromecast's issue.