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  • not OP, but this has reared its ugly face once or twice with my friends.

    i have been running into another issue, though it may be a firefox issue: playing some filetypes fail to play on web browser but work fine on jellyfin app (i believe my settings are correct for hardware decode on server where it can)

    i still have to put some time into figuring it out tho (havent really done my research yet)


















  • okay, i went at it for a few hours and got the ux to something minimally acceptable to me; however, the wife disagrees. the same pain points for me are hers, as well.

    i am not sure if this can be modified, but if so then i havent figured out how to resolve it. i have tried out a few skins, but i have changed to arctic zephyr to make sure the language i am using translates correctly.

    the biggest issue we currently have with UX is selecting a show/movie to watch. the multi-step process just to get into a poster list is something i am looking to curtail. the following examples are how i can browse movies by genre to select/play a movie

    on android TV’s jellyfin app:

    1. open jellyfin app
    2. select movies
    3. all movies are listed here as posters, select browse by genre
    4. movies are shown as posters in paginated rows to select under each genre and can be selected to play

    on Kodi jellycon app:

    1. select videos
    2. select video addons
    3. select jellycon app
    4. select jellyfin libraries
    5. select movies folder
    6. select genres (no posters yet, and i dont even use 4-5 of these subfolders)
    7. choose a genre.
    8. select a movie

    i believe i can reduce the steps count by 1 or two on kodi by booting to the videos or videos>addons menu, but in the current steps there is selectable content in androidtv>jellyfin app on step 2. in kodi>jellycon, selectable content doesnt appear until step 8.

    the steps to get here are still wife-unacceptable. it feels too much like using a computer to her instead of sitting down to consume passive media. do you know if there is a way to change this to be a bit more similar to jellyfin/netflix/prime/d+/p+/hulu/max/curiosity stream/every other major streaming platform by lowering the barrier steps to selectable content?