Might not be the answer you’re looking for, but Apple TV + Infuse is a fantastic media player. It has support for basically every codec so your server doesn’t have to be beefy — you can just direct stream everything. I stream full 4K UHD rips this way. And it supports Jellyfin, naturally.

No, unfortunately, it’s not a great player. Speed wise and aesthetically, yes, but codecs…

Blu-rays with Atmos use TrueHD Atmos, while streaming Atmos only supports Dolby Digital Atmos. Infuse does not support TrueHD Atmos, and there is no way to switch between the two, so giving up Atmos for the base 5.1 or 7.1 is your only option.

Similar case with Dolby Vision. Blu-rays use Profile 7, Apple TV only supports Profiles 5 and 8.4. So no actual Dolby Vision streams for you, just HDR10.

Does that profile limitation still apply with the latest Apple TV released? Now that they've added HDR10+ I'd imagine P7 is also doable?

Fair enough, though I figure those are “will work some day” limitations of the Apple TV.

That's a lot of money to pay just to get back functionality the previous poster already has.

It actually has slightly more features, it can play Dolby Vision and other HDR content that any regular reencoding process chokes on.

One might argue it’s cheaper than paying for a beefy GPU to do transcoding.

No need for a beefy GPU - Intel QuickSync on 9th gen is fine - I'm running a Core i3 9100T (25W) part that can take anything I throw at it.

In-house it doesn't do any transcoding to the TV's, only to mobile devices and off-network.

True, unless you already have one..

Agreed, but just to note: it'll cost ya.

I'm also waiting for the Jellyfin app on LG and following this issue: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-webos/issues/99

Current status LG QA is testing it and if it passes should be available in the LG Content Store soon after that.

I am excited it seems it'll be official soon, but it's been on the homebrew channel a long time:

https://rootmy.tv/

Kodi is pretty solid too but I'm not sure if they've added things like background music and other features yet.

It's been available for a very long time from the homebrew app list.

https://rootmy.tv