Jellyfin AndroidTV Client Thread

Discussion in 'Jellyfin for Zidoo' started by andy22, Jun 18, 2022.

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  1. mattmarsden

    mattmarsden Active Member

    Awesome, and glad everything is sorted with you.
     
  2. azon1951

    azon1951 Active Member

    Is it possible to integrate Real-Debrid in this app?
     
  3. Markswift2003

    Markswift2003 Well-Known Member SUPER Administrator Beta test group Contributor

    Been away on vacation for the last couple of weeks and now looking forward to the 0.15 release...
     
  4. Rob W

    Rob W Active Member

    Thanks for this, I installed Jellyfin on my Pi yesterday to test and I really like it. Think I will use Jellyfin instead of Plex now. It's perfect for the Zidoo box and opens really quickly and is responsive.
     
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  5. evmann86

    evmann86 New Member

    Hi there -

    Thanks for all your hard work on this, I'm loving my new Zidoo w/ the Jellyfin app installed.

    However, I do have a few issues. I am on the lastest Zidoo firmware (came shipped that way), and on Beta11 JF app.

    1) Every time I exit out of a show or movie (by pressing back twice on the remote), the app crashes back to the Zidoo home screen. [Note that I have installed Beta11 fresh, not an upgrade from previous version.]
    2) It will occasionally crash during playback, too - when fast forwarding or rewinding, but not all that often.
    3) The "My Media" categories will only show in these really small poster-sized versions, with the images mostly cut off, and with a folder icon on them. They won't show the full Card image. Note, this happens whether I'm on "My Media" or "My Media - small" (although "Small" is smaller).

    I'll get a picture of issue #3 when I'm home this evening. Any recommendations for issues #1 or #2? What is the best way to currently upload crash logs?

    Thanks again!
    -E
     
  6. evmann86

    evmann86 New Member

    Oh, and also: I'm using SMB sharing, although I also tried NFS and it was the same behavior for at least issues #1 and #3 (didn't use long enough to test #2 this way).
     
  7. Gilgamesh

    Gilgamesh Active Member

    no crashing or any playback issues for me also using SMB sharing from my unRAID server.
     
  8. evmann86

    evmann86 New Member

    See pictures here, regarding the cut off / smaller "My Media" folders.
     

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  9. evmann86

    evmann86 New Member

    Hi all -

    I did end up finding the logs, and found that "java.lang.NullPointerException" errors were causing the crashes. I've attached one of those logs to this post.

    That said, I am happy to report that I have resolved the crashing issues (Issues #1 and #3 in my above post), or at least found a workaround. I'm not sure which of these 3 did it, but here are the 3 things I did before it started working properly with no crashes:

    1) On the JF server dashboard -> Users -> "Open" user preferences, I changed "Maximum number of simultaneous user sessions:" to "1". It was previously at -1.
    2)On JF Server -> Devices, used the "Delete All" button to clear the list of devices
    3) Enabled Auto-Sign in for my user within the Zidoo JF app settings


    I also disabled "Allow Live TV access" and "Allow Live TV recording management" for my user but I don't think this had anything to do with it.

    So this is awesome! Hopefully Andy can eventually take a look through my log and find the bug on a future release.

    Let me know if I should open an Issue on the GitHub page and post this log there as well.

    Also, I still have the "My Media" folder image issue, referenced in my pictures above - has anyone else ever seen this?
     
  10. Goodyear77

    Goodyear77 New Member

    Just as an FYI if you’re using Plex or Emby but decide/need to use Jellyfin on the Zidoo; I found this container that syncs watch state between Plex, Emby and Jelly:

    github(dot)com/ArabCoders/watchstate

    The caveat is that the episode or movie is marked as watched only when it is fully watched, meaning you can’t get resume points, but that’s about it.
     
  11. chadamir

    chadamir New Member

    Any updates?
     
  12. martinstraka8282

    martinstraka8282 Active Member

    I am also very interested in updates and hope this project lives on.

    I've been using this as my preferred choice over Emby and Plex options for Zidoo and my only complaint is the spacing really.

    Plex works well, but it is a pain with all the manual input needed for PlextoZidoo to work with the internal zidoo player with how my libraries are set up.

    Emby's layout is the best on there imo, but it fails playback or seems to transcode on the odd movie that work fine in the other apps or base media player, which sours that experience.
     
  13. Gilgamesh

    Gilgamesh Active Member

    would be nice if it's possible to choose external subtitles before starting a movie, now it's using PGS even though I've chosen external subtitles in the Zidoo settings. :)
     
  14. 3DBuff

    3DBuff Well-Known Member

    Newbie question here, I don't have Jellyfin set up yet.

    When the source NAS is down or disconnected but the Jellyfin server is running, are all the movies still showing on the client app like Kodi or do they disappear like in HT?
    What happens if the connection to the server is lost, do you still see the media database or you loose it all together? If you have it on the phone and loose connection to you local network with server.
     
  15. Hippoponderous

    Hippoponderous Active Member

    If the server or NAS is connected/running, the client will automatically launch to the last selected server's home screen displaying media (if you run multiple Jellyfin servers). However, if the NAS/server is off or disconnected, the client will automatically (upon launch) take you to a server selection screen where you will be prompted to choose/add a server. So, you cannot see or browse any media.

    If the client is already running & you happen to lose connection to the server, media will still be visible, you just won't be able to play it & you will get some kind of "playback failed..." error message.
     
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  16. hi guys i have never installed jellyfin. I would like to know if doing this type of installation harms the image or video quality in any way? does it have many errors?
     
  17. salora

    salora Member

    Hi is there a way to secure the user/password chain in the smb path?
    And not have it plain like that

    • smb://andy:123456@192.168.1.101/htpc-share/series
    Thank you
     
  18. nc88keyz

    nc88keyz Active Member

    I see nowhere to delete media when done watching it except under chrome: ser options via ip admin, Is this an android issue with permissions. The user has deletion permissions in the dashboard of Jellyfin. Seeing this on official client and zidoo client. I stepped away from jellyfin for a while and am back at it. What is the issue. ? Have updated docker to latest version. have checked permission on volumes. all have read write, correct Group and user id.[/QUOTE]
     
  19. nc88keyz

    nc88keyz Active Member

    [/QUOTE]

    Short Answer: I should have went to the github page where apparently, they devs of Jellyfin decided it would be good for many to remove "delete media from the "Android TV" client, but have decided to add it back after some mild backlashing. It requires a lot of code rewrite and while they did decide to add it back after fixing the lines of code having to do with permissions, it is NOT available as it will make a welcomed re-appearance in the v 0.16.x cycle of updates to Jellyfin for Android TV. We are currently at v 0.15.6 as of 4/20/2023. I knew I was not crazy, It works on Appletv and also via android phone, just not android tv clients such as Nvidia Shield, Tivo Stream 4K, and apparently the code that is used for our Jellyfin Client which I believe is taken from the official Jellyfin Android TV code base even though the Zidoo uses Android Mobile OS. or a highly customized version of Android. I believe it is a mobile variant because of the services that run and the way it handles apps for Android v. Android TV format. Not so short, but bottom line. We wait. for v 0.16.

    If you dont want to loose the feature, dont update your clients or server side as that affects compatibility sometimes.
     
  20. Hippoponderous

    Hippoponderous Active Member

    I have an unusual playback problem with a single TV series that results in the "Zidoo player failed...check network path substitution...sharing permissions..." error message.

    The problematic series/folder is in the same correctly set up parent directory that contains 99 other series, none of which have this playback/network path issue. The series also plays fine via my other Jellyfin clients.

    The issue seems to be the folder or series itself (metadata maybe?). Trying to play dummy files in the same folder results in the same error message. Same if I try renaming or recreating the folder. I've checked the folder properties on my Synology NAS & there's nothing out of the ordinary. By default, it should inherit the permissions from the parent folder.

    If I remove an individual episode from the problematic folder & place it in a different series folder (giving it a new dummy episode name/metadata), it plays without issue.

    I've also tried re-scraping the series (using different scrapers), as well as deleting it from & re-adding it to Jellyfin to no avail.

    The series is The Midnight Club (2022) & is scraped, like all my media, by TMM.

    Does anybody (@andy22?) have any idea WTF is going on here?

    Edit:
    I don't use HT but as an experiment, I thought I'd add this troublesome series/folder as a source to see what happens. As it turns out, HT refuses to scan that folder & add it to the library (it did with a couple of other series I tried, though). However, while HT won't scan or add that folder, I can play those files in Media Center.

    It should also be noted that this series was not the most recent series added to the parent folder. More recent series/episodes play without issue.

    I'll post this issue in a more appropriate thread.
     
    Last edited: Apr 22, 2023

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