I’m looking to replace my Rock 5B running Android TV (the OS jank has finally gotten to me) with an x64 Linux HTPC coupled with an Rii remote.

What distro would one recommend for a “Jellyfin native” client setup? I’ve run Kodi with the Jellyfin plugins before and not been a fan of the experience.

  • PyrosisEnglish
    1•7 months ago

    I’ll be honest op if it’s on a TV I use the newer fire sticks with the jellyfin app. They already have support for various codecs and stream from my server just fine. Cheap too and come with a remote.

    If I were just trying to get a home made client up I would consider Debian bookworm and just utilize the Deb from the GitHub link here…

    https://jellyfin.org/downloads/clients/

    Personally I’d throw on cockpit to make remote administration a bit easier and setup an auto start at login for the jellyfin media player with the startup apps. You can even add a launch variable to launch it full screen like…

    jellyfin --fullscreen

    The media player doesn’t really need special privileges so you could create a basic user account just for jellyfin.