When playing Jellyfin off an Nvidia Shield TV, is it possible to set a default external video player per TV series?
When playing Jellyfin off an Nvidia Shield TV, is it possible to set a default external video player per TV series?
As the title says, is it possible to set the default video player to use per TV series? I tend to switch between MXPlayer and JustPlayer depending on the content (JustPlayer for most content and MXPlayer for some sub heavy content). However, it's annoying to have to select the player every time I start an episode. Additionally, this makes playing a show on shuffle in the background pretty tedious.
Would it be possible to have it so that show A always just plays using JustPlayer and show B always plays using MXPlayer?
As a Shield user and new Jelly adopter, I'll be interested in this answer. (Plus, I didn't know there were player options.)
Edit: Happen to know where I find the player settings? 🤔
AFAIK, this is not a thing. I don't recall seeing any discussions about making this a thing.
@wilberfan@lemmy.world On the home screen, go to the gear in the top right, in Playback you can select the player. Either auto or specifically select a player. There is a separate setting at the bottom of Playback to set a different player for live TV.
My only available options are
- "Automatically choose"
- "ExoPlayer"
- "LibVLC (experimental)"
- "External app"
- "Always ask"
And ExoPlayer is the one already selected. Do I need to manually install JustPlayer and/or MXPlayer on the Shield?
Edit: Found 'em in the Play Store and installed them to the Shield. đź‘Ť
What are the differences between the players?
From my experience, JustPlayer looks best and does the best job at playing DolbyVision/HDR10 content with Dolby TrueHD+Atmos or DTS-HD MA w/ DTS:X. However, sometimes it has issues with subtitles. I haven't yet investigated why, but I think shows that warrant more complicated subtitles (like Gintama) tend to fall into this. Where by complicated I mean that it often has multiple layers of subs simultaneously.
MxPlayer works best with subs and still looks pretty good, but not as good as JustPlayer and it doesn't work as well with all the above mentioned technologies.
If you wouldn't mind, are there any other issues you've experienced, and can you provide more details just to make it easier to reproduce the issue?
I'm interested in starting to contribute to the project, and this sounds like a good issue to document. Seems to me like we'll always find different players falling short for certain media, so making this thing a sort of preference is not a bad quality of life improvement.