jellyfin-chromecast VS jellyfin-mpv-shim

Hmm interesting idea. You actually install jelllyfish on the chromecast itself? I am looking in the project... There is a repo jellyfin/jellyfin-chromecast with code only, no info. Some stuff on how to set up the networking. Docs seem to say you need to have google play store (not f-droid) version of the jellyfin app.

I see from this link ( https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-chromecast/issues/372 ) that the solution should be to switch the jellyfin chromecast setting to unstable. However, when I do this, no media will even begin playing.

After some research, I found this pull request which aims to solve the problem. Specifically, this commit. Unfortunately, after months of back and forth, the PR seems to have stalled out completely.

Hrm. This is the primary one I was thinking of: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-chromecast/issues/13

Yes. https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-chromecast/issues/366

My guess is that it's due to different factors such as device type, Android version, and the type of file being played. There are actually quite a few bugs open on both the Android TV and Chromecast clients. But Here's the bug I'm referring to on Android TV and here's one of the bugs I have when using Chromecast. Both of which are quite annoying.

Someone could correct this, BUT I believe that page is defined in the chromecast receiver application: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-chromecast/blob/master/src/index.html

You could try Jellyfin-MPV-Shim but it’s not much of a UI and I don’t know if the playback will be any different from Jellyfin Media Player. Same thing about playback goes for JellyPlayer.

You mean something better than Jellyfin Media Player? It works pretty great for me on my Mac. Some people like Jellyfin-MPV-Shim but I don’t think it’s much of a UI.

As others have said, MPV Shim is another option on PC that also uses the same player as JMP. It has more options too that you use for the player like enabling shaders, video aspect ratio changes, volume gain changes, and so forth. Though it works as a hidden player that only appears when you cast to it.

Support IPv6 addressing with a protocol prefix (#306)

Fix endless video skipping with auto profiles. (#323)

I'm wondering if there is a bug in the Jellyfin server that is causing remote control connections to get lost. I had to put some really aggressive self-healing logic into MPV Shim to get it to stay connected reliably. This doesn't exist in web so JMP may suffer these reliability issues.

I use Jellyfin MPV Shim with uosc and thumbfast.

Jellyfin MPV Shim v2.3.1