anyone got Chromecast with Google TV 4K working with Jellyfin? it runs Android TV, gets the Jellyfin app and then stuff starts breaking.

It can’t connect to the server intermittently, playback stutters, stops, breaks… the server reports the file is direct play and no issues.

Five other devices have no problems of any kind, only this fucker has spells constantly.

  • ryannathansEnglish
    3·
    5 months ago

    Are you trying to play 4k content on a non-4k tv and making the chromecast rescale content? That will result in these issues because the chromecast is a slow POS that needs to play 4k content on a 4k tv

      • ryannathansEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        Jellyfin doesn’t know what screen resolution the chromecast is targeting, either that or the expectation is that on device down scaling is fast enough

        • NateSwift@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          Are you sure? The jellyfin client (web or app) knows what resolution it needs, and the transcode logs on my jellyfin server show an output resolution being explicitly defined. Both the source and player are 1080p (no 4K on my server) so I can’t be sure though

          • ryannathansEnglish
            2·
            5 months ago

            I’m sure, I have this problem on 2 4k chromecasts on 2 1080p TVs with 4k content

    • dingdongitsabear@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      no 4k content, no transcoding (disabled server side), plain ol’ 264/265 files, no other devices have issues. worked fine for the first day or two. it’s possible there was a system update but I don’t know, latest ATV app.