It’s actually really easy to beat the integrated apps, you use a device actually meant to stream, not your TV. TVs lack pretty much everything to be a real streaming solution except for the video and audio output part … that they do well.
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piranhaphish@lemmy.world 10 months agoI loath Plex. A year or two ago I tried to switch to JellyFin but there was no app for my then 2-year-old LG TV. Apparently that was too old, and that’s just a natural manifestation of a non-commercial app.
Maybe I would have better luck with a Roku but it’s hard to beat the integration of built-in apps.
TK420@lemmy.world 10 months ago
xaxl@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is much more hassle. Apart from having to actually set up and configure such a device, every time you want to use it you’ve got to switch it on, switch your TV input and use a different remote to control it. This is far inferior to just using the TV remote to open Plex and navigate with the same remote. That’s without considering that Plex is more polished and has an overall better UI as well.
pirat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I only use my TV with an AndroidTV box (never without it), and always just use the Bluetooth remote that controls the box. Linking the devices through HDMI-CEC makes the TV automatically power on/off when I power on/off the box. It even lets the TV remote control the AndroidTV box through HDMI, but since I’d rather use the box remote which I don’t have to point at the IR receiver, I only use the TV remote if I ever need to change audio/picture settings.
SYLOH@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I use Jellyfin on Roku because my Samsung TV was too old for it. It sucks on Roku.
I have not figured out the pattern for why some UHD videos don’t play remotely while others do, only that debugging it is fiendishly difficult since it all works fine locally.
If you ever resume a video, the subtitles are out of sync. And I haven’t found a way to adjust them.
Some videos with certain encodings play only on the PC app, but not Roku or Android.
For that matter Android is basically there to just easily download a copy, I don’t even bother trying to play with it.