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jellyfin-mpv-shim
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jellyfin / jellyfin-mpv-shim

jellyfin-mpv-shim

MPV-Based Jellyfin Client with Offline Sync

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What it is

MPV-Based Jellyfin Client with Offline Sync

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

> "codec not supported by browser" Unless you're very specific and consistent with your source media codecs, I highly recommend using jellyfin-mpv-shim when streaming from the…

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by month3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-09-27 09:49:39 UTC to 2022-07-19 01:31:49 UTC.

012021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 20212021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 20222022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 2022

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What Hacker News says

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michaelmrose·Jul 19, 2022
If you use jellyfin jellyfin-mpv-shim lets you play streams in mpv without worrying about transcoding. https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-mpv-shim Other fun tricks If you use jaro instead of xdg-open you can make video links automatically open in mpv while regular web links open in your browser of choice. https://github.com/isamert/jaro If you use elfeed its nice to watch video entries in mpv without a side trip to the browser. Stolen from Prot somewhere or other. (defun prot/elfeed-mpv-dwim () "Play entry link with external `mpv' program. When there is an audio enclosure (podcast), play just the audio. Else spawn a video player at a resolution that accounts for the current monitor's width." (interactive) (let\* ((entry (if (eq major-mode 'elfeed-show-mode) elfeed-show-entry (elfeed-search-selected :ignore-region)))
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(link (elfeed-entry-link entry)) (enclosure (elt (car (elfeed-entry-enclosures entry)) 0)) ; fragile? (audio "") ;; Here the display width checks if I am on the laptop (height (if (<= (display-pixel-width ) 1366) 720 1080)) (video (format "--ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?%s]+bestaudio/best" height)) ;; (buf (pop-to-buffer "*elfeed-mpv-output*")) ) (run-hooks 'prot/elfeed-mpv-hook) (if enclosure ; make this its own parametrised function (progn (start-process "f fuckoff audio-mpv" nil "mpv" enclosure) (message (concat "Launching MPV for " (propertize enclosure 'face 'success)))) (start-process "f fuckoff video-mpv" nil "mpv" video link) (message (concat "Launching MPV for " (propertize link 'face 'success)))))) At one point I wrote script to prompt for a name if passed more than one argument and create a playlist and remember the last n playlists and regular files opened so you could in turn pull up this list and narrow with rofi but as of late I'm just adding videos to jellyfin. Umpv is a script that emulates single instance mode whereby arguments are simply pushed to the existing players playlist instead of opening a new player. https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/TOOLS/umpv
In Mpv – A free, open source, and cross-platform media player
3np·Sep 27, 2021Recommendation phrase
> "codec not supported by browser" Unless you're very specific and consistent with your source media codecs, I highly recommend using jellyfin-mpv-shim when streaming from the browser. You just start the headless client wherever you want to play and it comes up as a "cast target" from the icon in the top right. Much better performance and codec support. MPV also has great subtitle control and caching. https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-mpv-shim Also, if you haven't, it may be worth updating to the latest point release. There have been a couple of bugs that have come and gone but I think it's in a good place right now.
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