How is the Jellyfin app for the Roku? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 6 months ago by UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca to c/jellyfin@lemmy.ml

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I'm thinking of getting a roku streaming stick for travelling

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[-] UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

I was thinking of getting this Roku, at the moment the most advanced content I'd be watching is h265 1080p.

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 6 months ago

The person you were replying to was talking about complex subtitle formats. All Roku models only support .srt style subtitles, whereas a lot of anime has .ass/.ssa subtitles encoded and bluray/dvd rips have image-based formats like PGS. Those more advanced/complex formats can't be played by the Roku directly, so your server needs to transcode the video to burn the subtitles in.