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Re:Higher fees, more ads: streaming cashes in by using the o... by magicalhippo on Sunday January 07, 2024 @05:17PM (#38905729)
Subtitles were mostly not working for me in Jellyfin, which makes it not very usable as a Plex replacement for us (Android TV client).

I wasn't overly pleased with the seeking either, but I could definitely live with that if subs worked, as the rest was quite nice indeed.

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Re:Higher fees, more ads: streaming cashes in by using the o... by glimshe on Sunday January 07, 2024 @05:52PM (#38906064)
Yeah, seeking is still a bit flaky. But subtitles work great for me, at least when using the Web and Roku clients. I got a better experience in some corner cases on the Roku client by making sure that the filenames ended with ".en.srt" so Jellyfin correctly associates them with the English language.
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Re:Higher fees, more ads: streaming cashes in by using the o... by magicalhippo on Sunday January 07, 2024 @06:06PM (#38906183)
Ah, my subs are mostly embedded, IIRC that's what Jellyfin has issues with.
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Re:Higher fees, more ads: streaming cashes in by using the o... by BHSPitMonkey on Monday January 08, 2024 @03:18AM (#38909390)
Embedded subs worked for me in Android TV after going into the app's settings and changing the "Preferred media player" to "LibVLC (experimental)".
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