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.
Is it definitely transcoding? JF can remix without transcoding iirc.
Everything I play has “The container is not supported”. I use mkv’s mostly. In this example, the audio codec is not supported as well.
Interesting — I wonder if it only displays the first reason for having to mess with the stream, e.g., if it’s really that it’s an unsupported container, video, and audio codec.
Possible to try playing an h264 mkv (maybe Big Buck Bunny)? Since your screenshot is h265 I wonder if it indeed needs to transcode because that’s unsupported (in addition to mkv).
Big Buck Bunny direct plays. It’s a .mp4 container and h264, so that likely has to do with it. My understanding was most people would be using h265 mkv files for content that’s 1080p or higher. It plays fine on Google Chrome and Edge, but not Firefox, so I’m a bit confused how people can be using Firefox and not have transcoding, unless they avoid h265 and mkv.
I would bet that if you remux BBB to an mkv and play that through JF, it won’t transcode — I think it will just remux it back to mp4. Just a guess…
I experience the same, which is why I switched to Jellyfin Desktop Client to aboid transcoding load on my server.
Web browser
Ditto, but only because it seems more reliable than the windows client. I didn’t bother submitting a bug report because I can’t properly articulate the issue.
I believe Ditto has a decent amount of security problems. I wouldn’t use it personally.
Hah
Jellyfin to MPV Shim.
This is the way. Web client to MPV Shim for local playback.
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!
Kodi
The jellyfin plugin is great but it doesn’t have the ability to cast from another device AFAIK.
Delfin on desktop linux. Official app on android and android tv with mpv as external player.
