Submitted 1 day ago by yodeljunkmanenvy@piefed.social to selfhosted@lemmy.world
https://linuxiac.com/after-years-of-waiting-jellyfin-finally-lands-on-samsung-tizen-tvs/
Samsung Smart TV owners can now use Jellyfin natively, as the open-source media server is now available on the Tizen platform.
I had to practically hack my Samsung TV I order to get jellyfin on it. A little annoyed it took this long but at least its there now.
There’s a funny one-click tool here: github.com/…/Samsung-Jellyfin-Installer but I guess it’s not necessary anymore
Damn that looks like it would have saved me some time.
Just run a small libux pc and a wireless keyboard+mouse…
I use libux btw
My gosh I just searched for libux, thinking maybe there was a great new Linux user experience out there for my media library. I even got confused for a split second when it autocorrected my search to Linux before realising the typo
I’d rather use an Android TV box, so I can have Dolby Vision, etc.
I’m still not connecting NY TV to any network, local or otherwise.
Apparently they will try to connect to open networks and try to tunnel through to get internet, so I set bogus manual DNS, gateway, and ip info so it can’t connect to anything correctly.
If they’re going so far as scanning open networks & tunneling, why would they bother obeying dns gateways you specify?
Game changer
Ok, now fix the shitty client on appletv…
yes, unpaid open source devs, do my bidding.
fix it yourself, ExcessShiv
Dude no one is forcing them to work on the project, they can just ditch it if they don’t want to do it anymore. Just because it’s free people are still allowed to voice opinions on the project, sure my comment is tongue in cheek, no one cares…welcome to the internet, is this your first day?
As an opensource dev I don’t mind having people say this. It’s good to get feedback regardless of whether it’s a call to action or merely a suggestion. You can’t know what direction people want the project to go in otherwise.
That’s the beauty of open source! I’m sure they’d love another helping hand! github.com/jellyfin/swiftfin
Fix the shitty server first though.
My server works fine with all other clients though, except the appletv one. In the appletv app I cannot change audio language or reliably change subs. Or, technically I can, it just doesn’t select the language I actually choose, it chooses some random one. This only happens on appletv app, it works as intended on all other devices, both android, iOS, browsers and MS/Linux clients.
I only own one Samsung TV. Its a really smart TV. Its magnificent. It never switches input which is a good thing since I never need to. This is because it has no built in services of the so called 'smart tv’s"
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
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Wait, I don’t have to update it through dev mode?
Wow this is great news!
Literally just went through getting the app built /deployed for my parents and my partner’s parents using the old method a few weeks ago. I’m super glad the app is on the app store, but it’s just bad timing for me lol
Omfg. I love you. 😭. I tried this very last week to make it work through their workaround and it never wanted to work out. Thank you so much bringing this up.
Kodi running on an (old) Nvidia Shield Pro, reading from a NAS via dlnr. This works nicely and I don’t get any quality degradation… Except for HDR+ which the shield doesn’t support and I was stupid and bought a Samsung TV, which is bad for numerous reasons, but also this one.
And of course, we are now closing in on the decade since it was released, and still no viable replacement.
Um…. Okay?
Replacement for what? kodi? you’ll pry kodi out of my charred and flayed hands! (American)
I tried Kodi years ago when I heard about some guy getting busted at a local flea market for selling Kodi rigged appliances. I didn’t download anything, but that UI was atrocious. After about 5 minutes of tinkering around, I just uninstalled it. Probably one of the worst UI’s I’ve encountered.
That’s awesome! I had to side load it and it was such a pain in the ass i just bought a Chromecast.
Yeah, I’ve had to help two friends connect to my server from Samsung TVs. It was annoying to say the least.
Great news, but still not available on mine. I have to wait. Also dev way didn’t work on mine.
i reckon ill unblock it from WAN long enough to get a new app
I use it through tailscale. I can still use it locally (yay). Still would like to see tailscale on tizen
That looks like a web view. I have that webview installed for years.
This is false news. Maybe, now it is in the store but the app is not new on tizenos.
Yes, it’s not available on the Store. Not many people are able to turn on developer mode and install the app through other means.
I thought newer Samsung tvs ditched tizen?
hell yeah
Joelk111@lemmy.world 1 day ago
People into Jellyfin use smart TVs? I haven’t connected mine to the internet.
rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio 1 day ago
Not every Jellyfin user is the server administrator. If someone sets up a server and shares that server with 5 people, most of those users aren’t concerned with the privacy implications of how they connect to the server; they just want to consume content.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
That’s true but every Jellyfin host has to be.
tempest@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I do? I don’t love Android TV but I only have so much time to fight to the good fight with shit.
I would like a less smart tv but I don’t want to by a 7 year old Nvidia Shield and suffered paralysis by analysis trying to decide on on an Android TV box.
So here we are, I use jellyfin on a smart TV
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
And how much better would a TV box even be compared to a smart TV?
charles@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
Out of curiosity why are you reluctant to buy a Shield?
I was on the fence for a while but I’ve been extremely happy with it and have only run into minimal issues (and significantly less than with my smart tv before).
Mikelius@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Having a smart tv doesn’t mean you must use internet to utilize it. Mine is blocked from internet connectivity but connects to my media server on the local network. If anything, I prefer this so I don’t need an extra computer sitting in the living room and can instead use the same single media server my phones and computers do.
iamthetot@piefed.ca 1 day ago
This feels like some really niche gatekeeping.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Family connect to my server with tv. If tv is in the same house everything is blocked and select things are whitelisted.
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s handy to share media with my family! The Roku app works OK
1hitsong@lemmy.ml 21 hours ago
“works OK”
🤘 I’ll take it!
ccunix@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We have both.
Kodi use Jellyfin for its media library and Kodi is excellent for a lot of the TV we watch. catch Up TV has replaced the decoder for watching terrestrial TV.
One thing that sucks in Kodi though is Arte (a franco-german channel that is a leans towards “intellectual”). For that, the LG WebOS app is much better than the Kodi add-on. Other than that 1 app, we could happily plug Kodi into digital signage panel if they weren’t stupidly expensive.