• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Love my Jellyfin server, but I have 2 gripes over just using VLC.

    • Can’t use the scroll wheel for volume. It’s a pain aiming for the volume from across the room on the couch.

    • JF won’t boost volume past 100% like VLC.

    Know of any fixes?

    • Bronzie@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      Are you playing directly on your server?

      For the first one at least you could solve it by running JF with a Chromecast or similar device.
      Feels cleaner than a wireless mouse in the living room too, IMO

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      6 months ago

      It’s weird to me that anyone would use a PC hooked up to a TV from a couch in 2024, but I’m sure it (otherwise) works for you.

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          6 months ago

          Instead of using a streaming or other settop device? That’d be far, far more normal for the use cade.

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            6 months ago

            I have one of those Google streaming devices but I hate giving up my privacy. Also, I saw fast food ads on the device’s home screen one day and I couldn’t disable those. That was the last straw.

            So now I use a raspberry pi 5 running arch with Firefox to stream everything to my TV. I even got a remote working with it that works fairly well, moves the mouse and everything. It was a lot of work but now I own my experience and don’t have to give Google my data in that particular way anymore.

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      6 months ago

      You might want to consider streaming it on your TV. Modern TVs should have a Plex app at the least. Or use a Chromecast or other setup. I watch on my couch with the TV remote. Its the same experience as watching Netflix.

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        Plex isn’t Jellyfin though. Lots of TV’s/TV OS’s have Jellyfin app but it’s pretty basic. I’d recommend an AppleTV with Infuse, it’s super built out with all sorts of great features. It’s a better app than all of the streaming services

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                6 months ago

                Macbooks beat the shit out of any comparable windows laptop. And iPads beat the shit out of any android tablet. And AppleTV is the best TV OS by far. Life must be hard when you just hate things because its popular to hate them.

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                    6 months ago

                    Same here! That’s why it’s so amazing that I can buy different brands for different uses! So free to do what’s best for me! Wowzers!

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Can’t use the scroll wheel for volume. It’s a pain aiming for the volume from across the room on the couch.

      apparently this is supposed to be coming in the 9.0 feature release. So soon™ I’d have to look to be sure, but apparently it’s coming.

      Volume is weird, i feel like i’d almost like either a “volume target” option, to match volume levels between content, or some sort of fixed audio boost level. Idk.

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        Volume is weird, i feel like i’d almost like either a “volume target” option, to match volume levels between content, or some sort of fixed audio boost level. Idk.

        Adding replaygain tags to your content could help here, but it’s a manual process, particularly since it’s not normally included in released videos. And I’m not sure if jellyfin supports replaygain tags from video (presumably it does for audio only files).

        mpv definitely does support it at least, with “–replaygain=track”.

        Of course, none of this helps with OPs situation, because enabling replaygain will actually lower the volume on most files, so it can account for high dynamic range content.

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          yeah considering i have literal terabytes of youtube content on my jellyfin, i think i’ll probably abstain, unless i do some really dirty automation on it, in which case i might not, because that would be funny.