I've recently adopted Jellyfin and overall I like it a lot. It fits my model for how I want my media to work almost perfectly, and I really appreciate its open source and self hosted nature.

But, seeking in the Android (TV) app makes no sense to me, and I find it difficult to use. On almost any app on Android TV while watching a video, I simply press the left or right arrow, and I'm almost instantaneously brought (usually near) -10 or 30 seconds from where I am now. Miss a line of dialog? Press one button and listen again. Skip a bit of filler? Press one button, maybe repeat with fast feedback about if you've gone far enough.

But the Jellyfin app? Press left or right and "nothing" happens (well, it brings up the UI). Press left or right again and you sort-of seek. But actually, you pause the video permanently and move into "seek mode". Where rather than jumping by N seconds, it jumps to a multiple of N (which could be as little as 1 second, depending on the current playback timestamp -- so e.g. if I just happened to be X minutes and 11 seconds in, and I seek left once, I end up at X minutes and 10 second in -- I expect/want X minutes and 1 second). And we're still in not-playing paused UI mode -- I can neither see nor hear where I am, so if I want to seek forward past filler, rather than "right/watch/right/watch" it's right/right/ok/watch/right/right/ok/watch to find the right point). Now I have to press OK again, to resume playback.

In other words: in most apps, to repeat a missed line of dialogue: Press left once, and that's it. In Jellyfin: Press left (or any other button) to bring up the UI, press left again to actually seek, press OK to resume playback.

Most unusually, the Jellyfin web app behaves like I expect: open it on my computer, start playback, and left/right works like most video playback: instant seek, relative time motion, single keypress.

It's jarring. Is this intentional? Is there an option to change this? Might this change in future releases?