moseschrute

I loaded my entire Plex movie library in to Jellyfin and at first everything was going great. Realized pretty quickly some files won’t play on my Apple TV. I tried multiple Jellyfin apps for ATV but I imagine the issue is the transcoding on the backend.

I understand mixing open source software like Jellyfin with closed source Apple products is a weird combo. But I’m not willing to ditch my Apple TV right now.

I confirmed the video files that weren’t playing via Jellyfin played no problem via Plex. Plex continues to make decisions that make me want to switch to Jellyfin, but it also seems Plex’s transcoding is better. Am I doing something obviously wrong?

Edit: Looks like Raspberry Pi 5 doesn't pay nice with Jellyfin when it comes to hardware acceleration :(
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/post-install/transcoding/hardware-acceleration/#raspberry-pi-hardware-acceleration-support-deprecation

I'm going to run this as a poll by creating some responses you can upvote. If you wouldn't mind upvoting a an existing comment so we get get a really nice count. See the comments I'm Leaving to get an idea of how the poll works. Try to follow my comment structure, but add your own options if you really feel I'm missing something.

I really hope this works how I'm envisioning. I really want to get an idea of operating system and platform preference skew for Lemmy.

How to vote:

1. Upvote the operating system you use
2. Upvote how your download the app of choice

If you use a browser

1. Find the "Browser" comment and upvote
2. Upvote the browser you use

If you use multiple, feel free to upvote multiple

For anything that isn't a vote, please search for the "bump comment" and reply to that. I know this isn't exactly open ended, but I really wanted to pose this question to a community that didn't skew towards a specific topic. I hope that's ok with this community and the mods. I would love to discuss the results of this poll at some point. My goal is to collect those results in a way that informs that discussion so we're not all guessing how people use Lemmy.

Edit: because there is a troll downvoting comments randomly, you should look at just the upvotes, not the score, to get the correct poll results.

Google requires a dozen or so beta testers before you are allowed to launch an app on the Play store publicly. Given that this community lives on Lemmy, and it’s full of Android users, I was hoping I could recruit a few people.

My app, “Blorp”, is already listed on the official Lemmy website for iOS, but Android has been delayed due to this requirement.

Would greatly appreciate your help, and if it turns out you like my app, I’m happy to make changes based on your feedback.

For closed testing, Google requires you join a linked Google Group before downing the app.

Step 1: Join the testing group

🔗 https://groups.google.com/g/blorp-android-app-testers

Step 2: Download the app

📱 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=xyz.blorpblorp.app

Thanks in advance!

Edit: there’s also a Lemmy community if you want to stay up to date or ask questions [email protected]

See button at the top of the screenshot that says “New posts ⬆️”.

Basically I wanted to indicate if there are new posts at the top of the feed. But I don’t want to throw you to the top of the feed without you confirming that you want that. So this button says “hey, there are new posts to see if you’re interested”.

I like the idea, but I also don’t love that it eats into the screen real estate for your feed.

For context, you can consider current Lemmy pre V1 and the upcoming update V1.

Lemmy has some big updates coming soon. Initially, when I wrote Blorp, it made sense to keep things simple and coupled to Lemmy since Lemmy is what I’m personally the most interested in. However, supporting current Lemmy versions and future Lemmy versions is going to require me to decouple Blorp from a specific version of the Lemmy API anyway.

A bunch of people have asked about PieFed support, and I’m realizing the groundwork I’m going to need to lay to support Lemmy v1 will likely make PieFed support much easier. I haven’t looked into MBin, but I imagine it may be similar.

I’m not really sure what the point of this is, other than a routine update post and bouncing ideas off you all. Likely, Lemmy will always be my top priority, but my plan is to update Blorp so it allows you to write adapters to plug into different but similar projects like Lemmy, PieFed, etc.

This is a combination of a bunch of releases from the past week. iOS updates have been a little delayed, but as of today this is all on the App Store.

• updated settings page look and feel
• manage blocks from settings page
• add button to block community
• indicate when a post has been cross posted
• default create post to most recently visited community
• confirm before leaving community to prevent accidentally leaving
• make sidebars a lot better
• improve inbox notification indicators when using multiple accounts
• make markdown rendering more closely match official Lemmy UI
• fix scroll jumping when collapsing comments

We're also now listed on

• https://join-lemmy.org/apps
• https://www.lemmyapps.com/

I only have so much time to text other Lemmy apps, but I'm pretty confident that you aren't going to find a cross platform Lemmy app that handles account switching as smoothly as Blorp.

If you're enjoying Blorp, please take a moment to leave a comment, star us on GitHub, or share it with a friend ❤️

That's all for now. Keep Blorping

Android requires I have a dozen beta testers before I'm allowed to push my app, Blorp, out to the store. My app is FOSS, has matching web, iOS, and MacOS versions with more to launch (e.g. Linux). My goal is to ship one unified Lemmy experience for all Platforms.

I'm really hoping to launch Android in the next few weeks, but I need a few more testers. If this sounds like something you're interested in, DM me with the email associated with your Android account. Google requires I add people by email to complete the required closed testing.

Hope this is ok to post here. Genuinely I want to deliver the best Android experience possible.

Some helpful links:

• Source code
• Blorp's Matrix chat
• Blorp's Lemmy Community [email protected]

Basically Ctrl+K or Cmd+K would trigger a menu that would let you search for pages, communes, users, maybe more without touching your mouse. The goal would be for you to say “I want to jump to this community” and be able to do that in less than 3 seconds and without touching your mouse. This would be more of a power user feature.

It would be powered by this library https://cmdk.paco.me/

I’m not really sure how many people are using Blorp on mobile vs desktop/web as I don’t collect any analytics data. But likely this would primarily benefit desktop and web users.

Btw, I’m starting a Matrix Chanel if you’re interested in joining. I would love your feedback in helping to shape Blorp. https://matrix.to/#/#blorp:matrix.org

Blorp is released to the App Store!

View Blorp on the App Store!

This is just the beginning! Hoping to launch Android very soon.

Try it!

I haven’t seen another Lemmy client that lets you write code in your post with real-time syntax highlighting. It’s not just code. Write your posts in rich text without toggling between Markdown and preview.

There are a lot of Lemmy clients, so I’m sure someone else does this. But I wanted to share in case anyone else finds this helpful.

The entire app has been rewritten. This is to address performance issues, make Android possible, but most importantly, it lays the groundwork for more work to come!

Theres also a ton of small bug fixes included in this release.

Download

• iOS TestFlight Beta
• macOS

Android Beta - looking for testers!

• Google requires me to do some closed beta testing before I can open it to the public
• DM [email protected] with the email associalted with your Google account for access (this is temporrary)

Edit: iOS is waiting on approval from Apple. Expect an update from TestFlight in the next 24-48 hours. Web, macOS, and Android area all ready to test today!