Request - "External video player for Movies only" option #3303
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MORE than ever this would be amazing. |
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I don't think this would happen, It's more a personal preference/choice, Not everyone would want a default player for movies and an external for TV shows, It's easier to just have either default or an external for all, |
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Maybe try mpv player, It seems to work flawless for me, I had issues with videos playing at one time as well. I didn't have great results with nova in Jellyfin, But MPV just works for me. https://github.com/mpv-android/mpv-android |
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I tried it, but the interface appears made for cellphones, and it seemed unable to handle any dolby vision video. There also seemed to be nearly no customization or features to speak of. I had just grabbed one of the .apks from their github repository, I didn't try fdroid. |
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Ok, Well I am just trying to help in what ever way possible. I don't use Dolby vision because my setup doesn't support it yet, There is also "Just (Video) Player" which supports Dolby Vision per their readme https://github.com/moneytoo/Player?tab=readme-ov-file#supported-formats. I know you say you have your choice in video player that you like. Here is also another list of open source software if that's what your looking for. https://github.com/Generator/Awesome-Android-TV-FOSS-Apps?tab=readme-ov-file#media-player |
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I've tried Just Player in the past, it's pretty nice as well. So far I haven't found anything that integrates with Jellyfin better than Vimu Player, the one I'm using right now. I think it's the only one that is able to inform Jellyfin of the video progress point when I exit it, instead of just marking things as watched/unwatched. And it integrates with Google Home, giving a notification with controls on my phone while a video is playing. The only thing it doesn't do is take commands/give feedback to the Jellyfin server, since it IS external, so the server doesn't know when something is playing and it's not able to send Intro Skipper commands to it. I just want the option to not use it on TV Shows. The Jellyfin AndroidTV app seems to be able to know what is a Movie and what isn't, so being able to toggle "Use External Player for Movies Only" as an advanced option (defaulted to Off obviously) shouldn't be that complicated or controversial. There's tons of settings in this app that are about customization and personal preference. |
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Oh ok, Gotcha, Makes sense now that you explain it more, Well I hope they can implement this feature for you, Maybe create a feature request? |
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This is still SORELY needed, now more than ever. The internal player is AMAZING for TV shows - now with trick play images and official segment skipping support I REALLY want to use it. But for movies the internal player is just not good enough - it straight up crashes on a bunch of formats or needs transcoding/remuxing for this thing or that, it's completely unpredictable and unreliable. |
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As it stands, the built-in player options are great for format compatibility, but they're not very fast to load and you can't customize almost anything about them, making them a bit...clunky. External players are much better in the latter category, so it would be great to have an external player set to default for TV shows and use the integrated player(s) by default for movies. The slower loading up and worse UX doesn't matter so much for a movie since you put it on once and don't touch it for a long time, while the better format compatibility is obviously crucial.
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