Jellyfin clients are the weakest aspect imo. Sort of hit or miss, and the ios client is inferior to a 3rd party paid offering (infuse)

Fair, I handle subtitles in my ingestion pipeline and so those are ready to go by the time Jellyfin gets involved.

Skipping, do you mean skipping intros and such? Or something else?

> I handle subtitles in my ingestion pipeline

What do you do? Separate file? Not sure if I've noticed a pattern other than "mostly doesn't work well".

> Skipping, do you mean skipping intros and such?

Sorry, I meant jumping back and forth. On Plex I can just press left/right arrows on the remote, and it jumps a few seconds. On Jellyfin I have to press ok/confirm to actually do the jump. Very annoying.

The *arr stack is what people usually use.

Bazarr specifically in this case, it can search multiple locations for missing subtitles automatically.

Some Plex clients will fail to direct stream DTS + PGS.

Jellyfin somehow just works on all my devices.

> First is subtitle support is quite limited in comparison.

I always watch with subtitles, but haven't noticed worse support in jellyfin vs plex, really. Granted, I mostly use srt/ssa (text based subtitles).

> Second is the lack of skipping.

You just need to install the intro skipper plugin :)

https://github.com/intro-skipper/intro-skipper

Hm, I too primarily have srt's. No idea why just says "failed to load" or somesuch and I haven't been arsed to figure out why when I can just hop over to Plex and watch.

That said, I've had a few HDR movies which Jellyfin handled a lot better, so it's a bit here and there.

As for skipping, I primarily skip backwards when I miss dialog (so much mumbling these days), or forward when it's a TV show which has segments I don't care too much about, like say some irrelevant love subplot.