There is some discussion regarding JMP (Jellyfin Media Player) and its lack of development the past year. Jellyfin Official appears open to replacing JMP with an alternative, meaning pushing users to a different application.
What desktop clients are people using currently? Are there any in the works that you believe could replace JMP?
If you are developing one, please reply and advertise it here!
I mostly use Jellyfin on Firefox, except on My Steam Deck where the JMP worked better in gaming mode.
Also, for Music I use Finamp everywhere, Desktop and Mobile!
Firefox. It direct streams almost everything, and the rare media it doesn’t, the server transcodes fast enough to not matter.
Does it support playing mkv’s? I see container not supported and it transcodes.
I experience the same, which is why I switched to Jellyfin Desktop Client to aboid transcoding load on my server.
Desktop client? I just use Firefox.
What I really want is a client I can run on a LG TV, but I figure I’ll need to buy a Nvidia shield or AWS Firestick.
If you’ve got a webOS TV then the official client was updated to support more versions recently. Check again in the content store and see if you’re in luck.
If not, then (with a bit of faffing around) you can enable developer mode and sideload the IPK.
Not sure which tv you have, but there is a webos client that works well. It’ll occasionally decide to transcode atmos stuff instead of direct streaming but restarting the movie once or twice gets it to play nice.
Do you use mpv shim? How do you avoid transcoding? In my opinion, that is why we can’t rely on the browser client and require a dedicated application.
I also simply watch in my browser when on desktop.
If it needs to transcode, then it transcodes. I don’t see the need to put extra effort in trying to avoid it.
What settings are you using under Playback -> Transcoding? Have you changed anything?
My server has a AMD Ryzen 9 5950X and a single transcode about maxes it out on CPU usage. Even when playing a 1080p file. This can’t be normal if others are just “dealing” with transcodes, unless everyone is using hardware acceleration. I’m using Firefox as the client.
Edit: I did turn off Allow encoding in HEVC format and Allow encoding in AV1 format and things are a bit better. Still not sure how people avoid transcoding on Firefox though.
What settings are you using under Playback -> Transcoding?
Nothing fancy installed, maybe it transcodes IDK? Both client and server have decently fast CPUs and it just works.
Jellyfin to MPV Shim.
This. mpv with uosc (UI) is great and scrubbing feels much smoother than in browser.
Yeeeee. I think this is because browser playback requires transcoding, where as MPV is like VLC, in that it can play all the file types and codecs.
This is the way. Web client to MPV Shim for local playback.
Kodi
The jellyfin plugin is great but it doesn’t have the ability to cast from another device AFAIK.
I’ve been using Fladder on my steam deck, it allows downloading for offline play. Works pretty well but the interface is too mobile centric IMO. There was Jellyflix which had a similar feature but it wasn’t straightforward to get running on Linux. Haven’t checked it since!
Delfin on desktop linux. Official app on android and android tv with mpv as external player.
