Exoplayer VS Swiftfin

Also in regards to having to tell PC rtspt:// and Quest rtsp:// and waiting for ExoPlayer to fail over to TCP (8 seconds delay) https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/issues/11069

See the full changelog of ExoPlayer 2.18.2. Some notable changes are:

This started happening on Android when they enabled DRM on the streams. Assuming you use a device with Android 12 or later, you can just use Race Control TV to fix the issue. With Android 11 or earlier, Race Control TV also stutters due to this issue, which can be fixed by a custom build of the the app and force-enabling the fix mentioned in the issue.

It seems it not yet supported by Exoplayer https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/issues/6225

Google drive client with only one purpose that is to stream video files unlike the official app, this app streams the actual files instead of transcoded streams. This app is powered by [Google Identity SDK](https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/android/start-integrating) and [ExoPlayer](https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer). Source code: [GitHub](https://github.com/itsZECHS/DriveStream)

Is there somewhere it's being discussed other than in https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/issues/8435 ? Because it seems like they're actually working on it in there.

The ExoPlayer developers are theoretically working on implementing better support, but as they don't want to just use an existing library like libass to handle it and it's evidently pretty low priority, don't hold your breath on it happening upstream any time soon.

plex 8.28 had exoplayer 2.16.1. V 2.17 had a lot of changes. https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/releases

One suggestion I’ll make to the Jellyfin team is to post this call at the point where users are requesting things too.

In the example in the blogpost (Chromecast support), in the issue I was asking a bit about how I could help implement the feature (https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin/issues/271#issuecomment...).

Even if there’s nothing I could have productively done to contribute to that feature, I would absolutely have gone to those getting started features.

So, I’d encourage the team to have a pretty quick hand in issues when people are asking to help to link to this blog post and getting started resources.

Finally, none of this is in anyway a criticism of how any interaction was handled. I super appreciate everyone that works on Jellyfin, and I know onboarding developers can often feel like/be more work than not. Just a suggestion for a good spot to add some CTA links that I think would convert reasonably well

Jellyfin is my jam, it just works. Its administration interface is intuitive, pretty solid, personally I think the dashboard looks good aesthetically, and most importantly it’s open source so if anything is broken I can just fix it myself. If anyone is interested in feel free to check out Swiftfin (https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin) a native iOS client

Some examples are Jellyfin Media Player, Swiftfin, or Kodi with the Jellyfin for Kodi Addon or JellyCon Addon. I watch a lot of anime with various subtitle formats and these clients always direct play my media.

Swiftfin issue

My understanding is it works on the Jellyfin Mobile app for iOS, but not the new Swiftfin app.

Absolutely not. It was just published to the App Store 10 days ago and there is a massive refactor of the playback code currently in progress.

Apple TV using Infuse (3rd party with some paid features) or the Swiftfin app that is in beta (although the TestFlight is full at the moment)