Is there any way to connect the bsky android app to the atproto.africa relay or a third party appview that uses the atproto.africa relay? I wouldn’t mind using bsky more if there was a clone of the android app that doesn’t use the bsky relay/appview. Looking at whtwnd it appears to be just web and not native apps?

I would like to host my own PDS and access bsky through a native app using third party relay+appview, but I haven’t seen a way to do this yet.

Some foreign language communities don’t seem to have their language marked so they still show up despite my language settings, so I blocked them to make things easier.

I get this 100% of the time now when trying to save photos, between this and comments sections showing up empty almost all the time when the post is from my own instance I’m considering using a different app.

No problems playing the Ethel or megusta releases here. Were you able to play the files initially? They might just be corrupted. Which release group did you grab?

Same experience here - I no longer can even cast from the new app because the cast list is just empty. My partner can cast from iOS, but the new iOS app design doesn’t appear to have a playback settings menu during cast playback, so we’re forced to transcode instead of direct stream. It also has fits of buffering several times a day when LAN streaming.

I have Jellyfin running in parallel but the only Jellyfin app I really find palatable is Findroid on android TV but it’s kinda in alpha right now

I do exactly this, both just docker containers in the same docker-compose. Both have the exact same media paths mounted. As long as you have good naming conventions (I let arrstack rename all my stuff) it pretty much just works and everything shows up in both just fine.

Immich is pretty good for this if you take pictures at each location. It has a global map that shows all your photos with a heatmap-style display and a drawer that shows a grid of the photos within your viewport as you can and zoom around. It doesn’t seem like you can view a specific album on the map currently but you can at least filter the map to favorites or a date range.

It seems like you can’t add to playlists in the new app.

Gotcha thanks for the info! It looks like I would be fine with ocis or opencloud, but since my main use case and pain points are with document editing which is collabora, it probably wouldn’t change much besides simplifying the docker setup (I had to make a gross pile of nginx config stuff pieced together from many forum help posts to get the nextcloud fpm container to work smoothly). But it already works so unless it breaks there’s little incentive for me to change.

What are the apps that you would miss? I basically only use my NC as a Google drive and docs replacement, so all it has to do is store docx files and let me edit them on desktop or mobile without being glitchy and I’ve really wanted to consider OCIS or similar.

That second requirement for me seems hard because of how complex office suites are, but NC is driving me to my wit’s end with how slow and error prone it is, and how glitchy the NC office UI is (like glitches when selecting text or randomly scrolling you to the beginning).

After I check the usual torrent sites, if I can’t find it on Usenet then I try finding random sketchy streaming sites (just by duckduckgoing title + year + stream) because usually you can youtube-dl them with a little fiddling, then my last resort is a DHT indexer like btdig. That’s more risk with viruses but if you’re paying attention it’s not that hard to avoid, but DHT indexes have lots of ancient stuff so be prepared to wait for seeds if you find it.

Sometimes I also find what I’m looking for on like page 7 of duckduckgo results at archive.org

Edit: also check soulseek - it’s primarily for music but you can share any file. I share my entire movies collection and get a constant stream of people downloading from me daily so it seems people search for and seem to also share TV and movies so it’s worth a check.

Have you done the steps under “How do I modify the default credentials?” and “How do I modify the permissions?” from the readme?

I think this is the tool you are looking for: https://github.com/luigi311/JellyPlex-Watched

I haven’t used it myself but I plan on it eventually when I do make the switch.

Nothing is missing per se, but mysteriously 100% of my friends prefer the Plex UI. I’d have to ask them why. I find the jellyfin UI a little bare but serviceable, my only real complaint is the mysterious transcoder errors.

And I’m sure it is just a misconfiguration! The problem is I hardly changed any settings from stock, aside from enabling hardware transcoding for Intel quick sync. I have an Intel Nuc10i7FNK that has a comet lake i7-10710U so based on the table on Wikipedia which lists which generations of quick sync support what codecs, I set Jellyfin’s hardware acceleration to QSV with QSV device set to blank (it works and I can see the activity using the Intel quick sync top command - I forget what the command is but I verified it when I set it up so it seems it’s auto detecting it fine), and enabled H264, HEVC, Mpeg2, VC1, VP8, VP9, HEVC 10bit, and VP9 10 bit. Leaving 12 bit and all of AV1 deselected which seems to match what isn’t available for decode according to the Wikipedia article. I left low power HW encoder off and enabled VPP with gain 28 and contrast gain 1, regular tone mapping disabled, tone mapping algorithm the default of bt.2390 and all the other settings left on default.

I know jellyfin is working on auto detecting the hardware acceleration settings so I don’t hold it against them at all. I should also mention that the file that wouldn’t play before plays fine now, so it doesn’t seem like there’s a specific file that causes issues but an intermittent issue that causes transcoder errors. The file that wouldn’t play before is just 8bit HEVC with aac2.0 and English srt subs.

I welcome any tips you have - one issue I have when looking for help with Jellyfin is that people see users asking for help as a challenge to “prove them wrong”, which is frustrating (and ironically sometimes how people approach proselytizing the fediverse). I genuinely want Jellyfin to be good and to use it, which is why I keep an updated jellyfin container running along side my Plex container, I have basically every jellyfin app installed on all my devices so I can keep up with their development, and I donate to developers of those apps even though they aren’t complete enough to use in the case of Findroid. I would have already opened an issue for jellyfin web if it was easy to reproduce, but like I said I haven’t had much time to troubleshoot between job and working on the arrstack so this is all the details I have right now.

I just set up traefik for both Plex and jellyfin - the config is almost identical. Unfortunately none of my friends choose to use Jellyfin, probably because the official apps don’t look as nice. I would use it but certain files just don’t play for some reason and I haven’t had the time to investigate. Plus I’m still waiting for Findroid on android TV to be in a working state.

Yes? Is that odd to you? If jellyfin supported it then that would be one less reason against switching which would be a good thing, wouldn’t you think? If you advocate for using jellyfin then shouldn’t you want such basic features to be supported for those who want to use them?

Even though I still use Plex full time, I very much want Jellyfin to succeed (I run it and offer it to everyone I share with), and so I want Jellyfin to be usable for people of all skill levels. I can’t get my parents to use an app that requires them to know anything about file sizes or codec compatibility or converting anything. That is why Plex is as successful as they are.

If you’re satisfied with Jellyfin lacking certain features, that’s your perogative. But I don’t think it’s that hard to empathize with someone wanting more feature parity, especially if the motivation is to make Jellyfin accessible to more people and increase adoption.

It’s honestly kind of silly to suggest that only technically minded users care about file sizes. We’re lucky enough to even know why the file is so big. My regular friends will just complain that it won’t fit, blame jellyfin, and then go back to Netflix.

You know that regular people with 64GB phones exist right? Suggesting that a non technical person should just know that they need to convert a 30GB remux using ffmpeg is absurd.

Half of my collection is DTS HD MA or TrueHD and many have HDR. Offline caching with transcoding is an essential feature if we want jellyfin to pull ahead. Berating people who are pointing out areas of improvement is not a winning strategy.

Tl;Dr

• Plex pass price increase (6.99/mo, 69.99/yr)
• Non-LAN streaming from a personal Plex server will require either server owner or user to have Plex pass or the new “remote watch” subscription tier
• No more $5 mobile unlock fee to watch in the mobile app, but now there will be a $2/mo “remote watch” subscription tier that unlocks remote streaming mentioned above

I’m glad this won’t affect Plex pass (lifetime for over a decade in my case) users who are sharing their server with non-paying friends, but I also hope this entices more development in Jellyfin. If Plex decided to make it so that my non-paying friends can’t stream easily from my paid for Plex server, I need jellyfin to be a good alternative, and it currently doesn’t appeal to any of the friends I share with so something like that would probably get my friends to switch back to paid streaming.

Yes. Also flaresolvarr is a good candidate to auto update since it needs to keep up with CF, I set it up with watchtower after having it fail due to forgetting to update it.