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Jellyfin MPV Shim is a lightweight cast-only client that allows you to cast videos from Jellyfin to the MPV Media Player. It runs in the system tray and stays out of your way until you want to play something. It also has excellent codec support and ... [More] many configurable options for advanced users. If you watch a lot of anime, this client is definitely for you. The player has full support for 10-bit HEVC video with subtitles. Additionally, there is a menu option that allows setting subtitles and audio preferences over an entire season of TV at once. To get started on Windows, simply download the binary and run it. If you are on Linux, follow the instructions here. After you have started the client, enter the URL of your server and the username and password to connect. The client will run in a tray icon, which allows you to access the configuration and view the error logs. Casting media is easy. Open the Play On menu in the Jellyfin web or mobile clients and select Jellyfin MPV Shim. Then play media normally. You’ll be able to control most aspects of playback from the web application or by using keyboard shortcuts. Most of the options can be accessed using the menu during playback. Press C on your computer or use the arrow-based navigation controls in the mobile client when supported. You can adjust playback settings and preferences in the menu with ease. Use the arrow keys and enter to navigate and escape to go back. The Auto Set Audio/Subtitles option allows you to set the subtitles for an entire season at once, instead of having to change the settings each time the episode changes. Use the Preferences menu to adjust the default playback settings and remote video quality. Client Spotlight This blog series aims to highlight some of the amazing projects created by our community. Feel free to send a message if you can think of a project that could use more love! [Less]

Thank you for using Jellyfin! This is a major update for the Android TV client. ⚠️ We have added crash reporting. Read the notes below for more information. Highlights Upgraded ExoPlayer to version 2 This means video playback should be a lot ... [More] smoother now! New home screen The newly made home screen now looks more or less the same as the webclient. It will display the sections you have chosen under your “Home” preferences. Note: changing sections is only available in the web version for now Integration with “Next Up” section on Android TV devices Crash Reporting Providing logs on Android TV devices can be challenging for users as it requires Android developer tools. Issues can be challenging to replicate for developers and crash logs help a lot with this. We don't want to force users to report their logs to a third-party and therefore we won't report anything by default. When a crash occured the app will show a dialog and ask to report the logs. All crash reports are retained for 30 days and can only be reviewed by a small group of developers inside the Android TV team. More information can be found in the issue about this change. Release Notes Full release notes available on GitHub. Download Now Direct downloads are always available from our repository. [Less]

Improved Video Playback That Goes up to 11

Thank you for using Jellyfin! This is a major update for the Android TV client. ⚠️ We have added crash reporting. Read the notes below for more information. Highlights Upgraded ExoPlayer to version 2 This means video playback should be a lot ... [More] smoother now! New home screen The newly made home screen now looks more or less the same as the webclient. It will display the sections you have chosen under your “Home” preferences. Note: changing sections is only available in the web version for now Integration with “Next Up” section on Android TV devices Crash Reporting Providing logs on Android TV devices can be challenging for users as it requires Android developer tools. Issues can be challenging to replicate for developers and crash logs help a lot with this. We don’t want to force users to report their logs to a third-party and therefore we won’t report anything by default. When a crash occured the app will show a dialog and ask to report the logs. All crash reports are retained for 30 days and can only be reviewed by a small group of developers inside the Android TV team. More information can be found in the issue about this change. Release Notes Full release notes available on GitHub. Download Now Direct downloads are always available from our repository. [Less]

Reflections on our first year

It feels hard to believe, but the Jellyfin project is now over a year old. With our official founding somewhere around December 8th 2018, Andrew and I weren’t sure exactly what was going to happen. Did we have the resources to make a fork of Emby ... [More] really happen? Were the doubters right in saying that we wouldn’t last a year? It seems that we’ve proven them, and ourselves, wrong. What started with just a few people, some forked code, and an idea a little over a year ago has now grown to a thriving community of contributors and users, always ready to help make something better: a truly FLOSS media server, one which refuses to bow to the pressures of commercialization, and that seeks to keep this space free. Without all of you, we wouldn’t have gone anywhere at all, and for that you have our eternal thanks! 2019 has been a busy year for the Core Server project. Starting with our first “real” release of 10.0.0 in early January 2019, we’ve been through 5 “major” releases and over a dozen hotfix revisions. There have been some significant changes to both the backend and frontend to help make Jellyfin more stable, more performant, and easier to use, with plenty more on the horizon. We’ve removed tons of cruft, embedded 3rd-party libraries, and dead code, while adding numerous useful features. And we’ve built in support for numerous platforms, including Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora/CentOS, Windows with both portable and installer versions, MacOS with officially signed DMG images, and most popular of all with over 52 million pulls, Docker. Plugins are growing as well, with over 20 now available - some ports of Emby plugins, some brand-new - and more coming all the time. For the core server, 2020 looks to be just as exciting: our long-term plans continue to include a full database rewrite, permitting far better performance, backup/restore flexibility, and support for additional database engines, as well as continual overhaul of the WebUI to address usability concerns. Our Fider feature request center continues to grow with many well-requested features, and our hope is that the major overhaul work will be finished early this year so we can get on to new features without relying on spaghetti and duct tape to achieve them. If you’re interested in helping, please check out our How To Contribute page for details. The client side has been equally exciting. We started 2019 without a single client, Emby having just cut us off from their clients out of spite. Through the dedicated work of a small subteam, 2019 brought us four well-supported clients all on the way to full release: Android and Android TV are both in the major App stores (Google Play and Amazon) as well as available as direct .apk downloads, including Chromecast support, while Kodi was consolidated into a single client and remains well-maintained with constant improvement, including support for Kodi 16-18 with 19 on the way, improved IPv6 support, and support for Unicode. Late last year we also released an iOS Expo App, which is currently in TestFlight Beta, which will hopefully bring us more support for Apple devices. Roku, one of our most requested clients, had to be started from scratch, due to issues with the forked code, and continues to improve, though it is still under active development, with video playback mostly working. We also have preliminary support for WebOS, which still must be side-loaded but generally works. Finally the Mopidy plugin has been ported and improved extensively, offering proper population of the Mopidy library, multi-library support, and audio-book playback. Though we admittedly still lack some of the more well-requested but “niche” clients, some of which we may never see, 2020 still looks exciting on the client front. Improvements continue to come in across the entire App ecosystem, and though work on our new React client has been slow, we have high hopes for this to replace most of the disparate clients we have now. Now as always we can use contributors across the board, so if development on any of the platforms is familiar to you, please check out our How To Contribute page for details. I would be remiss to not discuss the Jellyfin community, both over on Reddit, our own forums, as well as our Matrix chats. Jellyfin wouldn’t have gone anywhere without both users to test us out and recommend us, as well as those willing to help their fellow user leaving us free to progress the project. We sincerely appreciate everything you do to help no matter how small. I wish all of you a happy new year, a happy decade, and many many hours of watching enjoyment on your Jellyfin instances! Cheers, Joshua, Project Co-Leader [Less]

It feels hard to believe, but the Jellyfin project is now over a year old. With our official founding somewhere around December 8th 2018, Andrew and I weren't sure exactly what was going to happen. Did we have the resources to make a fork of Emby ... [More] really happen? Were the doubters right in saying that we wouldn't last a year? It seems that we've proven them, and ourselves, wrong. What started with just a few people, some forked code, and an idea a little over a year ago has now grown to a thriving community of contributors and users, always ready to help make something better: a truly FLOSS media server, one which refuses to bow to the pressures of commercialization, and that seeks to keep this space free. Without all of you, we wouldn't have gone anywhere at all, and for that you have our eternal thanks! 2019 has been a busy year for the Core Server project. Starting with our first “real” release of 10.0.0 in early January 2019, we've been through 5 “major” releases and over a dozen hotfix revisions. There have been some significant changes to both the backend and frontend to help make Jellyfin more stable, more performant, and easier to use, with plenty more on the horizon. We've removed tons of cruft, embedded 3rd-party libraries, and dead code, while adding numerous useful features. And we've built in support for numerous platforms, including Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora/CentOS, Windows with both portable and installer versions, MacOS with officially signed DMG images, and most popular of all with over 52 million pulls, Docker. Plugins are growing as well, with over 20 now available - some ports of Emby plugins, some brand-new - and more coming all the time. For the core server, 2020 looks to be just as exciting: our long-term plans continue to include a full database rewrite, permitting far better performance, backup/restore flexibility, and support for additional database engines, as well as continual overhaul of the WebUI to address usability concerns. Our Fider feature request center continues to grow with many well-requested features, and our hope is that the major overhaul work will be finished early this year so we can get on to new features without relying on spaghetti and duct tape to achieve them. If you're interested in helping, please check out our How To Contribute page for details. The client side has been equally exciting. We started 2019 without a single client, Emby having just cut us off from their clients out of spite. Through the dedicated work of a small subteam, 2019 brought us four well-supported clients all on the way to full release: Android and Android TV are both in the major App stores (Google Play and Amazon) as well as available as direct .apk downloads, including Chromecast support, while Kodi was consolidated into a single client and remains well-maintained with constant improvement, including support for Kodi 16-18 with 19 on the way, improved IPv6 support, and support for Unicode. Late last year we also released an iOS Expo App, which is currently in TestFlight Beta, which will hopefully bring us more support for Apple devices. Roku, one of our most requested clients, had to be started from scratch, due to issues with the forked code, and continues to improve, though it is still under active development, with video playback mostly working. We also have preliminary support for WebOS, which still must be side-loaded but generally works. Finally the Mopidy plugin has been ported and improved extensively, offering proper population of the Mopidy library, multi-library support, and audio-book playback. Though we admittedly still lack some of the more well-requested but “niche” clients, some of which we may never see, 2020 still looks exciting on the client front. Improvements continue to come in across the entire App ecosystem, and though work on our new React client has been slow, we have high hopes for this to replace most of the disparate clients we have now. Now as always we can use contributors across the board, so if development on any of the platforms is familiar to you, please check out our How To Contribute page for details. I would be remiss to not discuss the Jellyfin community, both over on Reddit, our own forums, as well as our Matrix chats. Jellyfin wouldn't have gone anywhere without both users to test us out and recommend us, as well as those willing to help their fellow user leaving us free to progress the project. We sincerely appreciate everything you do to help no matter how small. I wish all of you a happy new year, a happy decade, and many many hours of watching enjoyment on your Jellyfin instances! Cheers, Joshua, Project Co-Leader [Less]

Welcome to our brand new website. At first glance, it may not look like much has changed - the theme and colours are still the same, and so is our frontpage. What has changed, is what's under the hood. Our website is now built using Hugo, a ... [More] static-page generator written in Go. As part of the move, we've decided to introduce this new blog, where you'll be able to hear more about Jellyfin's new releases, future development, and goals. Occasionally, we'll feature guest posts from some of our own contributors. Thank you for using Jellyfin. We can't wait to share what's next! [Less]

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