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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/</link><description> Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://jellyfin.org/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Android TV version 0.14</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/android-tv-14/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/android-tv-14/</guid><description>&lt;!-- markdownlint-disable MD033 MD036 -->
&lt;p>Introducing Quick Connect, external trailers, improved crash reporting and more.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>I&amp;rsquo;m excited to announce the newest version of Jellyfin for Android TV. A lot of changes made it into the app this development cycle, including some exciting new features. We fixed a bunch of issues reported by our community and welcomed some new &lt;a href="#contributors">contributors&lt;/a> that helped out on this update. In this post I&amp;rsquo;ll talk about our most significant changes. A complete list of all changes is available in the &lt;a href="#changelog">changelog&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Enjoy this update and I&amp;rsquo;ll see you with the next one!&lt;/p>
&lt;p>- Niels&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="minimum-server-version-changed-to-108">Minimum server version changed to 10.8&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Server requirements changed a bit. With this release, only version 10.8 or newer is supported. By dropping support for 10.7 we were able to add new features like Quick Connect and a new crash reporting implementation. As always we advise you to use the latest version of Jellyfin to get the latest bugfixes, features and security updates.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Go to the &lt;a href="https://jellyfin.org/downloads/">download&lt;/a> page or read the &lt;a href="https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/installing.html">installing&lt;/a> documentation to start updating.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="improved-login">Improved login&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>It&amp;rsquo;s now a lot easier to get started with Jellyfin on your television using Quick Connect. With it, you no longer need to enter a password and instead will be prompted to open Jellyfin on another device, like your phone or computer, to enter a 6 digit code. This way of authentication is an alternative to passwords while keeping your server secure.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Another big change in the login section of the app are the redesigned screens for adding a server or user. These screens are now easier to read and use with bigger text and a better alignment for the on-screen keyboard. Google TV users will now see the keyboard on the right side of the television screen. This makes it possible to see connections errors without closing the keyboard.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;img src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/android-tv-14/login-1.png" alt="Screenshot of the new login design">&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="support-for-external-trailers">Support for external trailers&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>The newly added support for external trailers allows the playback of trailers from YouTube, Vimeo and other video services. Previously only local trailers could be played. This feature is only available when a browser or video service app is installed to open the trailer.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Unfortunately this feature has some limitations. Some popular apps, like YouTube, don&amp;rsquo;t make it easy to go back to the Jellyfin app. And in some television platforms you might see an error telling you there is no app to open the trailer. If this happens you should check if the YouTube/Vimeo/other app is installed. For an optimal experience we recommend using local trailers that play inside the Jellyfin app.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="changes-to-the-live-tv-guide">Changes to the Live TV guide&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>The Live TV guide got some long awaited fixes and design tweaks. These include, but are not limited to:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Fixed the incorrect sizing of channel images in some places&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Fixed an issue where the guide could have some sizing problems with many channels&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Fixed the &amp;ldquo;null&amp;rdquo; text when information was missing in a some places&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Fixed guide sorting not always working&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Removed the category images causing contrast issues&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Restyled some buttons to use theme colors&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Restyled the filter and options popups to the same design as other parts of the app&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h2 id="improved-browsing-grid">Improved browsing grid&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>To make it easier to see a lot of items or just a few we have added two new image sizes in the grid view: smallest and extra large. Together with this change the sizing is now based on the actual size of your device, fixing some bugs on 4K displays. This might change the size you&amp;rsquo;re used to a bit. We also fixed some issues with the vertical layout and now consider it a stable feature!&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="new-crash-reporting">New crash reporting&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Back in 2020 with version 0.11 we added a crash reporting utility. This function helped us fix a lot of issues with the app. The crash reporting relied on a third-party service to collect the reports. We kept tight control of who could access this data, but never liked this approach as it did use a third-party service we have no control over. In this update the crash reporting code was rewritten and now sends all reports to your own Jellyfin server. The crash reports use a new format that makes it more readable for both the user and developers and includes details to identify and fix bugs even faster.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Crash reporting is now turned on by default. When the app crashes it will send a report to the last server you used. On fresh installations the report is queued until connecting to a server.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="markdown-support-for-item--server-descriptions">Markdown support for item &amp;amp; server descriptions&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>The support for basic HTML elements in item descriptions is extended to now also support Markdown. The same HTML and Markdown support is also added to server descriptions. With this change you can easily use &lt;strong>bold&lt;/strong>, &lt;em>italic&lt;/em> or &lt;del>strikethrough&lt;/del> text.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="rewrite-of-websocket-code">Rewrite of WebSocket code&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>We&amp;rsquo;ve seen a lot of issues with WebSockets in the past. This was partially caused by outdated code in the app. This part of the app is now rewritten to use an up-to-date library via our own SDK. In our testing the connections are more stable and it allows us to add more code that relies on this connection in the future, like instant updates of items on the home screen and SyncPlay.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Visit our &lt;a href="https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networking/index.html">networking&lt;/a> documentation if you&amp;rsquo;re using a reverse proxy and still have connection issues.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="contributors">Contributors&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Jellyfin apps are developed by our great contributors and we couldn&amp;rsquo;t do it without them. Everyone is a volunteer that doesn&amp;rsquo;t get paid by any organizations, so consider donating if you appreciate their work. A big shout-out to all contributors that made this release possible:&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>Jellyfin Team&lt;/strong>&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/nielsvanvelzen">@nielsvanvelzen&lt;/a> - Sponsor via &lt;a href="https://github.com/sponsors/nielsvanvelzen">GitHub sponsors&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/thornbill">@thornbill&lt;/a> - Sponsor via &lt;a href="https://github.com/sponsors/thornbill">GitHub sponsors&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/mueslimak3r">@mueslimak3r&lt;/a> - Sponsor via &lt;a href="https://github.com/sponsors/mueslimak3r">GitHub sponsors&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/AndreasGB">@AndreasGB&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/crobibero">@crobibero&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>Other contributors&lt;/strong>&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Andy2244">@Andy2244&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/DavidFair">@DavidFair&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/tim-vk">@tim-vk&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/ghostbuster84">@ghostbuster84&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Fallenbagel">@Fallenbagel&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/dspencer001">@dspencer001&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h2 id="changelog">Changelog&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>The complete changelog, with all pull requests merged for this release, is available on &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-androidtv/releases/tag/v0.14.0">GitHub&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="download-now">Download now&lt;/h2>
&lt;a class="NoLinkLook" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.jellyfin.androidtv">
&lt;img width="153" alt='Jellyfin for Android TV on Google Play' src="https://jellyfin.org/images/store-icons/google-play.png" />
&lt;/a>
&lt;a class="NoLinkLook" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TX7Z725">
&lt;img width="153" alt="Jellyfin for Fire TV at Amazon App Store" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/store-icons/amazon.png" />
&lt;/a>
&lt;p>Direct downloads are available for side-loading at &lt;a href="https://repo.jellyfin.org/releases/client/androidtv/">our repository&lt;/a> or in the &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-androidtv/releases/tag/v0.14.0">GitHub release&lt;/a>.
You can also join our &lt;a href="https://play.google.com/apps/testing/org.jellyfin.androidtv">beta program on Google Play&lt;/a> to test new versions before they&amp;rsquo;re released.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Jellyfin Roku Release - v1.5.0</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/roku-v1.5.0/</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/roku-v1.5.0/</guid><description>&lt;p>We are excited to announce the release of Jellyfin 1.5.0 for Roku! This update brings many new features to the Roku client and continues improving existing capabilities.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="new-features">New Features&lt;/h2>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Support for Quick Connect&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Music playback (single song, album play, and Instant Mix)&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Added “Network/Genre&amp;quot; View Options to libraries&lt;/li>
&lt;li>New user settings:
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Jump back to the first item using back button&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Blur unwatched episode images&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Hide taglines on movie screen&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Use splashscreen image as home background&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Use splashscreen image as screensaver background&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Support for showing pre-roll videos&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Improved Alpha Picker filter on library screens&lt;/li>
&lt;li>And many more!&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h2 id="bugs-fixed">Bugs Fixed&lt;/h2>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Transcoding issue resulting from 10.8.0 server update&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Crash when trying to read subtitle track for live tv&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Periodic startup crash&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h2 id="additional-updates">Additional Updates&lt;/h2>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>More text translations&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Several important Programmer/Developer updates - making it quicker and easier for us to update the Roku client&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h2 id="download-now">Download Now&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Update your installed Jellyfin channel on your Roku device or install Jellyfin from the &lt;a href="https://channelstore.roku.com/details/592369/jellyfin">Roku store&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="full-release-notes">Full Release Notes&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>The full (technical) release notes are available on &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-roku/releases/tag/v1.5.0">GitHub&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="contributors">Contributors&lt;/h2>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/jimdogx">@jimdogx&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/candry7731">@candry7731&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/1hitsong">@1hitsong&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/cewert">@cewert&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/renovate">@renovate&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>Jellyfin for webOS - July 2022 Update</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/webos-july2022/</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2022 22:30:00 -0400</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/webos-july2022/</guid><description>&lt;p>Finally, the big day is here. Jellyfin is now available on select LG Smart TVs.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="download">Download&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>First, let&amp;rsquo;s get the download links out of the way. The current release on the store will install on LG TVs with webOS 6+, which should be any fully updated TV from 2021 or newer.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>For webOS 2/3/4/5:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Download the &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-webos/releases/latest">latest release&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Install using Developer Mode (or other process)&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;p>For newer TVs (2021+):&lt;/p>
&lt;p align="center">
&lt;a href="https://us.lgappstv.com/main/tvapp/detail?appId=1030579">&lt;img alt="Enjoy on LG Smart TV" width="200" src="https://repo.jellyfin.org/releases/other/lg-badge/LG_BADGE_greyborders_817x242.png"/>&lt;/a>
&lt;br/>
&lt;em>&lt;strong>Note:&lt;/strong> The Content Store version is currently only available for webOS 6+.&lt;/em>
&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="whats-next">What&amp;rsquo;s Next?&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>We hope to bring this to more versions of webOS soon. There is one small bug to fix for webOS 5.x, and then we can resubmit with that update. Since the main QA testing work has been performed by LG, this process should be much faster. As time goes on, more enhancements and fixes will follow. It&amp;rsquo;s hard to determine exactly how far back we&amp;rsquo;ll successfully be able to support. We&amp;rsquo;ll try our best to get as far back as webOS 3.x, but I am less optimistic about webOS 2.x and 1.x. If we get to 3.x, that brings us as far back as TVs from 2016 (running &lt;a href="https://developer.chrome.com/docs/native-client/sdk/release-notes/#chrome-pepper-38-15-august-2014">Chromium 38&lt;/a> from 2014!). You can see what versions of the browser are included in older webOS versions in &lt;a href="https://webostv.developer.lge.com/discover/specifications/web-engine/">LG&amp;rsquo;s Documentation&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>If you want to follow along on our journey, you can have a look at the Issues listing on our &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-webos/issues">webOS Repository&lt;/a>. I just have one request - don&amp;rsquo;t comment unnecessarily. If you want to stay updated with a particular issue, there is a handy &amp;ldquo;Subscribe&amp;rdquo; button on the side that will email you updates.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>It&amp;rsquo;s important to note that the app itself is a wrapper around our server&amp;rsquo;s web interface, so when you keep your Jellyfin server up to date, you automatically get a lot of the fixes right away. While the TV app will directly get occasional fixes, we don&amp;rsquo;t anticipate having to update it very often. If you want to follow along with fixes to the web interface, just have a look at our &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web">jellyfin-web repository&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Thank you for your patience with us so far. After this, there&amp;rsquo;s still more work to be done. That&amp;rsquo;s what happens when you&amp;rsquo;re the person in charge of App Publishing to Google, Apple, Amazon, LG, Samsung, Microsoft, and Roku. I hope you enjoy this start, and we&amp;rsquo;re gonna keep working to bring it to more of you.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Thanks,
Anthony&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;em>Your friendly neighbourhood Core Team member, App Publisher, Community/Social/Dev Relations manager, and macOS/Windows Tray maintainer!&lt;/em>&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Jellyfin Release - v10.8.0</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-10-8-0/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2022 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-10-8-0/</guid><description>&lt;p>After a rather long development cycle the Jellyfin team is proud to announce stable version 10.8! This release post will mostly cover the highlights with little prose, as there is so much to cover!&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://jellyfin.org/downloads/" class="button button__accent">Download Jellyfin 10.8.0&lt;/a> &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases/tag/v10.8.0" class="button hero__button">Read the full release notes&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>All of the changes, accumulated over nearly the last two years, are too many to easily list, so we&amp;rsquo;ll break them down in the sections below and hope all of you find something enjoyable.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The major highlighted changes are:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>numerous improvements to Hardware Acceleration (HWA), including:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>Dolby Vision Profile 5 and 7 tone-mapping&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>CUDA-based tone-mapping for NVIDIA&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>extended OpenCL tone-mapping for Intel&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>hardware based subtitle burn in&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>Intel tone-mapping support for Windows&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>full OpenCL filtering for AMF on Windows&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>deprecation of OMX for raspberry pi, use V4L2 instead&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>proper network interface binding and handling of proxied requests&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>various fixes for DLNA, Sync-Play and m3u HTTP streams&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>DLNA disabled by default&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>extended NFO metadata import&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>external audio and subtitle support including container (mks, mka)&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>extended plain folder parsing&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>enhanced detection and handling of DVD/BD ISOs and folders&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>extend TMDb metadata provider (series state, season names, tags, logos, etc)&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h2 id="server">Server&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Some major fixes include a number of HWA improvements, explicit network interface binding, DLNA improvements, better NFO parsing, configuration cleanup (relics of the migrations in 10.7.z), and numerous metadata improvements, as well as the migration to .NET 6 which provides a nice stable language base for future improvements.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>A point-form list of the changes compiled by the team is:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>General:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>automatically migrate and cleanup config files&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>reduce memory footprint by various optimizations (e.g. reducing memory traffic)&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>rewrite QuickConnect&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>splashscreen in branding API (although not in use by any client yet)&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>various HDHomerun fixes and improvments&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>properly read filesize from symlinks&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>create output directory on file extraction&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>return path to pinfile on password reset&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>fix ombi auth through Jellyfin&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>include genre in related media generation&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>Implement more provider links for series, seasons, episodes and movies&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>properly handle gif&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>passwords are now hashed with 120000 iterations of PBKDF2-SHA512 instead of 1000 iterations of PBKDF2-SHA1, old passwords are migrated automatically on login&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add config option to disable automatic server discovery&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>Networking:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>fix explicit IP/interface binding&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>disable UPnP by default (only applies to new setups)&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>proper handling of published server URLs&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>disable DLNA server by default to avoid security risks&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>HWA:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>implement CUDA-based tone-mapping for NVIDIA&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>extend Intel OpenCL tone-mapping (speed-wise on-par with VPP tone-mapping and therefore preferable)&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>implement full OpenCL HW filtering for AMD on Windows&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>implement hardware-based subtitle burn-in (significantly faster)&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>implement proper tone-mapping support on Windows&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add CUDA &amp;amp; OpenCL tone-mapping support for Dolby Vision profile 5 and 8&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>various other fixes for NVIDIA and Intel hardware acceleration&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add support for AV1 hardware decoding on supported platforms&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>deprecate Raspberry Pi OMX/MMAL hardware acceleration in favour of V4L2&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>Streaming/Transcoding:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>optimize and extend DLNA support&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>fixes for DLNA PlayTo and DLNA folders&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>fixes for DLNA seeking&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>extraction of attached fonts for subtitle transcoding/burn-in&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>small fixes to SyncPlay&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add transcoding information to playback data&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>fix opus sampling rates on transcode&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>properly stream m3u over HTTP&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add keyframe extraction for better seeking (WARNING: this is a really long running task)&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>overhaul streaming logic to only transcode incompatible streams&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>various fmp4 fixes&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>NFO:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add parsing of additional ids&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>proper importing of watched state&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>proper parsing of ratings&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>proper handling of thumb tags&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add support for fanart tag&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>proper casting of NFO ids to internal ids&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>Scanner/metadata providers:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add ID parsing from folder names&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>extend ID parsing from filenames&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>refactor extras parsing (way faster)&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>refactor and harden parsing of plain folders (all movies in one folder)&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>refactor and extend external subtitle and external audio parsing (now supports containers too)&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>properly handle unprobed strm playback with external streams&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add support for TMDB absolute and TV order&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>properly pass language to TMDB search queries&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>fetch TMDB parental rating for tvshows&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>enable fetching additional series states from TMDb&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>properly detect DolbyVision&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>enhance detection and handling of DVD/BD folders/ISOs&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>episode parser improvements&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add ability to disable adult content in TMDb&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add ability to configure image scale in TMDb&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>update artist split whitelist&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>make tag import and maxCastMembers configurable for TMDb&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>improve metadata merging&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add ability to fetch logos with TMDb&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add option to configure season name importing for TMDb&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>Technical:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>upgrade to latest .NET 6 (fixes some of the quirks with network storage)&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>bump all dependencies&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>upgrade analyzers and properly handle warnings&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>proper generation and publishing of OpenAPI spec&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add and extend tests for various subsystems&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>upgrade Docker images to Debian 11 Bullseye&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>include latest Intel Compute Runtime in Docker images&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add health check to Docker images&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>remove unused docker volume for /media from Docker images&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>make flushing to disk async if possible&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h2 id="web">Web&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Web has been moved completely to NPM (instead of Yarn), and several pages have been ported to React. Further many dozens of improvements and fixes have been made.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>A point-form list of the changes compiled by the team is:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>switch to NPM&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>update all dependencies&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>introduce ReactJS and migrate some pages&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>redesign of mobile item detail views&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>SyncPlay improvements&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>user settings for custom CSS&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>fixes for TV layouts&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>book player improvements and new Continue Reading section&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>change SyncPlay icon&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add support for custom links in sidebar (config file only)&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add support for new QuickConnect&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>update settings to reflect server changes&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>properly name generated bundles for cache-invalidation on update&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>implement markdown for plugin changelog rendering&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add hardware transcoding info to playback data&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>enable buffering in the web player&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>switch volume slider to exponential instead of linear scaling&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>remove tag filter limit&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>fixes for theme songs and videos&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>unify duration display&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add item count to playlists&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>expand metadata editor&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>various fixes for webOS&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>fix and extend multiselect&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>save playback speed between media&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>introduce WebWorker for blurhash decoding&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>update translations&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add apple device icon to activity log&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>save pdf &amp;ldquo;playback&amp;rdquo; on page finish&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>stack toasts&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add paging to list view&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>display series level extras on series page&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>extend LiveTV pages&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>extend mediainfo dialogue&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>escape most HTML&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add rewatching to next up&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>allow markdown in login disclaimer&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>fix theme colors&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>tackle accessibility issues&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>fix album track sorting if audio files have SortName tags&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add track sorting for videos&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h2 id="ffmpeg">FFmpeg&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Our custom FFMpeg has been upgraded to version 5, along with numerous HWA enhancements and improvements.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>A point-form list of the changes compiled by the team is:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>update to FFmpeg 5.0.x&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>rename Debuntu package to jellyfin-ffmpeg5 for backwards compatibility&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>update existing patches&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add patches for CUDA and Intel Quick Sync tone-mapping improvements&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add patches for AMD Vulkan-based HWA and tone-mapping&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add patches for CUDA &amp;amp; OpenCL tone-mapping support for Dolby Vision profiles 5 and 8&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>self-build and include latest Intel media-driver, required libraries and vainfo&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>migrate CI to Github Actions&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add build script for win64&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add required libs for QSV on 12th gen Intel hardware&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add chromaprint&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>remove deprecated distros, add newly released distros&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>add patch to support long path names on Windows&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h2 id="plugins">Plugins&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>All plugins have been updated for Jellyfin 10.8.0, as well as numerous day to day enhancements.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>A point-form list of (some of) the changes compiled by the team is:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>migrate CI to templated Github Action workflows&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li>
&lt;p>fix trakt.tv plugin to actually be useable&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h2 id="translations">Translations&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Thanks to the many dozens of generous volunteers over at our Weblate (&lt;a href="https://translate.jellyfin.org">https://translate.jellyfin.org&lt;/a>), thousands of new translations are available in Jellyfin 10.8.0 for over 3 dozen languages.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Happy watching!&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Updating our iOS App</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/ios-update-150/</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/ios-update-150/</guid><description>&lt;p>With &lt;a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/jellyfin-mobile/id1480192618?mt=8">Jellyfin Mobile&lt;/a>, our main iOS App, we have updated some frameworks that adjust our minimum iOS version.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Our main iOS app has been built using &lt;a href="http://expo.dev">Expo&lt;/a>. It offers a unique take on a &amp;ldquo;managed&amp;rdquo; React Native experience that allows anyone to develop an app for iOS, even without using a Mac. It allowed us to get an app out quickly, and use the web interface that is a part of every Jellyfin install.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>As time goes on, we keep Expo up to date in order to take advantage of security fixes, and help us use new features in the app itself. With our next app release, we move to &lt;a href="https://blog.expo.dev/expo-sdk-43-aa9b3c7d5541">Expo 43&lt;/a>, which fully supports iOS 15, but must also drop support for iOS 10 and 11.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>As a result, starting with version 1.5.0 of our Apple app, &lt;strong>iOS/iPadOS 12 or newer is required.&lt;/strong>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>If your device is still on an older version of iOS, and you currently have the app downloaded, your experience will stay mostly the same for now. The installed version isn&amp;rsquo;t being removed from the store, so you can still re-install it if needed - but your device won&amp;rsquo;t receive any updates for it. As time goes on, and you update your Jellyfin server, you may encounter unexpected behaviour with the older iOS app.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>If you haven&amp;rsquo;t downloaded it before, or are running into issues, you can try a few different options:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>If your server is local (on your home network), try &lt;a href="https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/vlc-media-player/id650377962">VLC media player&lt;/a>. It still supports devices as old as iOS 9, and can access the DLNA server built-in to Jellyfin.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>If your server is remote, or you have the DLNA server disabled, you can try using Safari to access the normal Jellyfin interface.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;p>If you can&amp;rsquo;t seem to get anything to work, feel free to get in touch and visit us in chat, or on Reddit. We&amp;rsquo;ve got a great community of users who are always willing to help, and we&amp;rsquo;re usually around as well. All the links are available on our &lt;a href="https://jellyfin.org/contact/">contact page&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;hr>
&lt;p>Thank you for using Jellyfin and supporting us this far.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Our iOS app is largely worked on by only one contributor, &lt;a href="https://github.com/thornbill">@thornbill&lt;/a>, who gives generously of his spare time to develop the app and make improvements to it and our web interface. He, along with a few of our &lt;a href="https://github.com/orgs/jellyfin/people">contributors&lt;/a> have donation pages setup either through GitHub Sponsors, or other sites like LiberaPay, Patreon and more. If you&amp;rsquo;d like to support any of them, please see their profiles for more information.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>If you&amp;rsquo;d like to support Jellyfin as a whole (infrastructure and equipment costs only), you can visit our public ledger on &lt;a href="https://opencollective.com/jellyfin">OpenCollective&lt;/a>. We&amp;rsquo;re pretty well covered for now, so consider donating to contributors first.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Android TV v0.13</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/android-tv-13/</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/android-tv-13/</guid><description>&lt;!-- markdownlint-disable MD033 MD036 -->
&lt;p>We&amp;rsquo;re back with another release for Android TV and Fire TV users containing a lot of bugfixes!&lt;/p>
&lt;p>As promised in the previous release post, the time between updates is getting shorter. We aim for future updates to happen significantly more frequently than the two years between 0.11 and 0.12. Today&amp;rsquo;s update brings some new features and greatly improves playback of videos. Let&amp;rsquo;s get started with the player changes.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="playback-changes">Playback changes&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Most changes in this release are related to playing video files, the so called playback code. A lot of changes were made, both bugfixes and new features! The full list is, as always, available in the &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-androidtv/releases/tag/v0.13.0">changelog&lt;/a>. The most notable changes are listed below.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="transcoding-updates">Transcoding updates&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>A lot of issues with video are caused by the way the app transcodes video. We&amp;rsquo;ve tweaked the transcoding behavior and found a lot of issues were fixed with those tweaks, issues like the video ending early or unexpectedly rewinding itself. Unfortunately these changes triggered some issues in Jellyfin 10.7 and we had to limit these changes to servers running Jellyfin 10.8. We recommend updating as soon as a stable server release is ready.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Additionally, we&amp;rsquo;ve added support for more audio codecs. The added codecs include Dolby Digital, Digital Plus and TrueHD, as well as DTS and Linear PCM audio, all commonly found on DVDs and Blu-rays, but also a more universal AAC support. This change is comparable with the audio codec changes in the last release of our mobile app.&lt;/p>
&lt;h3 id="version-selection">Version selection&lt;/h3>
&lt;p>A much requested feature was the ability to add a version selector. We&amp;rsquo;ve now added this function. A new button is now shown on the details page for a movie/episode/video that can be used to select which version to play.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;img src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/androidtv-0-13-0/versionselection.png" alt="Screenshot of the new version selection">&lt;/p>
&lt;h3 id="speed-control">Speed control&lt;/h3>
&lt;p>It&amp;rsquo;s now possible to change the speed of playback. You can slow down or speed up a video. The set speed is remembered so the next video plays at the same speed, until you restart the app or manually change it back. Speed control is not available for Live TV.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;img src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/androidtv-0-13-0/speedcontrol.png" alt="Screenshot of the new speed controls">&lt;/p>
&lt;h3 id="subtitle-preferences">Subtitle preferences&lt;/h3>
&lt;p>Not everyone enjoyed the default &lt;span style="background:#000;color:#fff;padding:4px;">subtitle styling&lt;/span> in the previous version, so now there are a few options to change it. It&amp;rsquo;s now possible to change the size of the subtitles and to toggle between a black background or text outline. These preferences work for all text based subtitles. Image based subtitles like SubStation Alpha and VobSub still use their own styling.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="search--screen-saver">Search &amp;amp; Screen saver&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>You can now use the search function on Android TV to search in your Jellyfin libraries. This feature is supported for Android TV devices that do not use Google TV (like the new Chromecast). To get started, just search for a movie and press the &amp;ldquo;Available on Jellyfin&amp;rdquo; button.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Additionally, we&amp;rsquo;ve added a screen saver that highlights your media. To enable it go to your system settings, open the screen saver category, and select the Jellyfin screen saver. On some devices this function may be called &amp;ldquo;Daydream&amp;rdquo;. The screen saver shows random series and movies with their backdrop.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="updated-preferences">Updated preferences&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>The app has quite a lot of preferences. To make it easier to find the correct preference we&amp;rsquo;ve divided them into a few categories and re-ordered all of them.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Some new preferences were added too. We&amp;rsquo;ve added subtitle preferences (see above), the ability to (finally) change the home sections from within the app. And the licenses of third party libraries are now shown in the about section.&lt;/p>
&lt;img src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/androidtv-0-13-0/newprefs.png" alt="Screenshot of the new preference categories" style="max-height:500px;" />
&lt;h2 id="contributors">Contributors&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Like all releases, we couldn&amp;rsquo;t do it without our contributors and your donations! Jellyfin is made entirely by volunteers that don&amp;rsquo;t get paid for their work. A big shout-out to the following contributors that made this release possible:&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>Jellyfin Team&lt;/strong>&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/nielsvanvelzen">@nielsvanvelzen&lt;/a> - Donate via &lt;a href="https://github.com/sponsors/nielsvanvelzen">GitHub sponsors&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/mueslimak3r">@mueslimak3r&lt;/a> - Donate via &lt;a href="https://github.com/sponsors/mueslimak3r">GitHub sponsors&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/thornbill">@thornbill&lt;/a> - Donate via &lt;a href="https://github.com/sponsors/thornbill">GitHub sponsors&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/h1dden-da3m0n">@h1dden-da3m0n&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>Other contributors&lt;/strong>&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/DavidFair">@DavidFair&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/ElegyD">@ElegyD&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/siankatabg">@siankatabg&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/koying">@koying&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/danieladov">@danieladov&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h2 id="changelog">Changelog&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Full changelog with all pull requests available on &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-androidtv/releases/tag/v0.13.0">GitHub&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="download-now">Download Now&lt;/h2>
&lt;a class="NoLinkLook" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.jellyfin.androidtv">
&lt;img width="153" alt='Jellyfin for Android TV on Google Play' src="https://jellyfin.org/images/store-icons/google-play.png" />
&lt;/a>
&lt;a class="NoLinkLook" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TX7Z725">
&lt;img width="153" alt="Jellyfin for Fire TV at Amazon App Store" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/store-icons/amazon.png" />
&lt;/a>
&lt;p>Direct downloads are always available from &lt;a href="https://repo.jellyfin.org/releases/client/androidtv/">our repository&lt;/a>.
You can also join our &lt;a href="https://play.google.com/apps/testing/org.jellyfin.androidtv">beta program on Google Play&lt;/a> to test new versions.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Jellyfin Android v2.4.0 - More audio codecs, stability improvements and various tweaks</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/android-v2.4.0/</link><pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/android-v2.4.0/</guid><description>&lt;p>Compared to the last major release, Jellyfin Android 2.4.0 isn&amp;rsquo;t as feature packed, but it still includes some useful changes and various fixes. Read on to learn more!&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The biggest improvement right of the start is support for additional audio codecs in the integrated video player, allowing even more media to direct play on your device. Specifically, that includes Dolby Digital, Digital Plus and TrueHD, as well as DTS and Linear PCM audio, all commonly found on DVDs and Blu-rays, but also a more universal AAC support.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Additionally, The integrated player now follows the rewind/fast forward preferences selected in the Jellyfin settings.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Apart from that, connection reliability was again improved, handling timeouts properly now and showing a progress indicator while the app connects (thus it won&amp;rsquo;t be stuck on black screen anymore).&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="download-now">Download Now&lt;/h2>
&lt;a class="NoLinkLook" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.jellyfin.mobile">
&lt;img width="153" alt="Jellyfin on Google Play" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/store-icons/google-play.png" />
&lt;/a>
&lt;a class="NoLinkLook" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B081RFTTQ9">
&lt;img width="153" alt="Jellyfin on Amazon App Store" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/store-icons/amazon.png" />
&lt;/a>
&lt;a class="NoLinkLook" href="https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jellyfin.mobile/">
&lt;img width="153" alt="Jellyfin on F-Droid" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/store-icons/fdroid.png" />
&lt;/a>
&lt;p>Direct downloads are always available from &lt;a href="https://repo.jellyfin.org/releases/client/android/">our repository&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="full-release-notes">Full Release Notes&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>The full (technical) release notes are available on &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-android/releases/tag/v2.4.0">GitHub&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="contributors">Contributors&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>As always, lots of great people contributed in this release:&lt;/p>
&lt;h3 id="jellyfin-team">Jellyfin Team&lt;/h3>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/nielsvanvelzen">@nielsvanvelzen&lt;/a> - &lt;a href="https://github.com/sponsors/nielsvanvelzen">Sponsor&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Maxr1998">@Maxr1998&lt;/a> - &lt;a href="https://github.com/sponsors/Maxr1998">Sponsor&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h3 id="others">Others&lt;/h3>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/CarlosOlivo">@CarlosOlivo&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h3 id="contribute">Contribute&lt;/h3>
&lt;p>If you have some experience with Android development and are interested in contributing yourself, feel free to dive into the source code &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-android">on GitHub&lt;/a> and open pull requests!&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Alternatively, you can help translating the app into your language on our &lt;a href="https://translate.jellyfin.org/projects/jellyfin-android/jellyfin-android/">Weblate&lt;/a>.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Android TV v0.12</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/android-tv-12/</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/android-tv-12/</guid><description>&lt;!-- markdownlint-disable MD033 MD036 -->
&lt;p>Today we&amp;rsquo;re bringing the Android TV app to 2021 with a modern design and tons of other changes.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Over 400 &lt;sup id="fnref:1">&lt;a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1&lt;/a>&lt;/sup> pull requests containing 2400+ commits, 750+ changed files with 54000+ changed lines of code by roughly 50 contributors&lt;sup id="fnref:2">&lt;a href="#fn:2" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">2&lt;/a>&lt;/sup>. This is the biggest update to the app we ever worked on. I&amp;rsquo;ll talk a bit about why it is this big and why it took so long later in the post. But let&amp;rsquo;s start with the part you probably came for: &lt;strong>new features!&lt;/strong>&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="new-authentication-flow">New authentication flow&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>We got a lot of complaints about our authentication flow. It wasn&amp;rsquo;t obvious how to enable the auto-login option and managing multiple servers or users was not an easy task. We also didn&amp;rsquo;t like this part of the app, and decided to completely revamp it! The rewritten sign-in screen looks more modern and is much easier to use. There is a new help section that links to our documentation to help new users get started with Jellyfin. The auto-discovery feature of the app now shows all servers instead of the first one, you can select one of those or manually enter your server address to connect. You can then proceed to add a user and start using the app. Users are automatically saved now with auto-login enabled by default.&lt;/p>
&lt;div class="juxtapose">
&lt;img data-label="0.11" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/androidtv-0-12-0/11-user-select.png" />
&lt;img data-label="0.12" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/androidtv-0-12-0/12-user-select.png" />
&lt;/div>
&lt;h2 id="updated-user-interface-design">Updated user interface design&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>After logging in you will be presented with a modern look and feel in our refreshed user interface. A new toolbar is added to the top-right corner of the screen to open the search page, settings or to switch to a different user. No need to scroll down to the bottom of the home screen anymore.
Beneath this new toolbar is your media, like it always was, but the cards got a new look with the debatable colored backgrounds removed.&lt;/p>
&lt;div class="juxtapose">
&lt;img data-label="0.11" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/androidtv-0-12-0/11-home.png" />
&lt;img data-label="0.12" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/androidtv-0-12-0/12-home.png" />
&lt;/div>
&lt;p>The settings screen got a refresh too. It allows you to more easily change settings. Some new settings got added to customize the app to your own taste.&lt;/p>
&lt;div class="juxtapose">
&lt;img data-label="0.11" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/androidtv-0-12-0/11-settings.png" />
&lt;img data-label="0.12" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/androidtv-0-12-0/12-settings.png" />
&lt;/div>
&lt;p>The user interface when browsing inside libraries got some slight changes too. We&amp;rsquo;re hoping to completely revamp this part of the app at some point, but that didn&amp;rsquo;t stop us from making it slightly better now.&lt;/p>
&lt;div class="juxtapose">
&lt;img data-label="0.11" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/androidtv-0-12-0/11-browse.png" />
&lt;img data-label="0.12" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/androidtv-0-12-0/12-browse.png" />
&lt;/div>
&lt;div class="juxtapose">
&lt;img data-label="0.11" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/androidtv-0-12-0/11-details.png" />
&lt;img data-label="0.12" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/androidtv-0-12-0/12-details.png" />
&lt;/div>
&lt;h3 id="themes">Themes&lt;/h3>
&lt;p>The web client supported theming since forever but the Android TV app did not. That changes today with the introduction of three themes: Muted Purple together with Dark (Default) and Classic Emerald are now available in the app to supports basic theming. We&amp;rsquo;re planning to expand this feature in the future with more themes and more variety between them. &lt;em>Maybe we should add a light theme?&lt;/em>&lt;/p>
&lt;h3 id="new-video-player-design">New video player design&lt;/h3>
&lt;p>The video player was completely redesigned to remove a lot of clutter and make it easier to use. The new design is bigger so you can more easily see the information on a television.&lt;/p>
&lt;div class="juxtapose">
&lt;img data-label="0.11" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/androidtv-0-12-0/11-player.png" />
&lt;img data-label="0.12" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/androidtv-0-12-0/12-player.png" />
&lt;/div>
&lt;p>The new video player design is just the beginning. A project to rewrite the playback code behind it is already in the works. This rewrite should help with the crashes and unnecessary transcoding that happens sometimes. It will also give us the opportunity to add new features like SyncPlay. But this doesn&amp;rsquo;t mean the current code isn&amp;rsquo;t being worked on anymore! We did fix some issues with the current video player code. Notable are changes for Fire TV to direct play more often and a lot of crashes got fixed.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="fixed-that-bug">Fixed that bug&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Together with all the visible changes we&amp;rsquo;ve made tons of fixes to the code. We&amp;rsquo;re now using &lt;a href="https://kotlinlang.org">Kotlin&lt;/a> as our primary language to help us writing type-safe code, migrated completely to &lt;a href="https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/">AndroidX&lt;/a> for better device compatibility and made a brand new &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-sdk-kotlin">SDK&lt;/a> that is slowly being integrated for a more secure and stable connetion with your server. All of these modernizations in the code allow us to more frequently release updates.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>A complete list of all the fixed bugs can be found in our changelog linked below. It&amp;rsquo;s a big list!&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="going-forward">Going forward&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>It took some time to get this release out. We didn&amp;rsquo;t feel like the state of the app was good enough for a release for a while.
Fortunately we&amp;rsquo;ve worked hard to make sure we did feel confident and here we are! Starting from this release we&amp;rsquo;re changing some things
to make sure the next release won&amp;rsquo;t take this long. Our brand new SDK that is already used in our Android app and third party apps is one of the tools helping us with faster releases. By having a more type-safe base we can prevent tons of crashes, allowing us to focus on actual features and bugs.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>We&amp;rsquo;re already working on some new stuff like the earlier mentioned rewrite of the playback code. We&amp;rsquo;re using feature flags for this so we can work on this code while still being able to publish new versions. Other changes that we&amp;rsquo;re looking into are more improvements to the user interface, better Live TV, better music support and more bugfixes!&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="contributors">Contributors&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Like all releases, we couldn&amp;rsquo;t do it without our contributors and your donations! Jellyfin is made entirely by volunteers that don&amp;rsquo;t get paid for their work. A big shout-out to the following contributors that made this release possible:&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>Jellyfin Team&lt;/strong>&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/nielsvanvelzen">@nielsvanvelzen&lt;/a> - Donate via &lt;a href="https://github.com/sponsors/nielsvanvelzen">GitHub sponsors&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/thornbill">@thornbill&lt;/a> - Donate via &lt;a href="https://github.com/sponsors/thornbill">GitHub sponsors&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/MrChip53">@MrChip53&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/AndreasGB">@AndreasGB&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>Other contributors&lt;/strong>&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/linetrimmer">@linetrimmer&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Froghut">@Froghut&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/koying">@koying&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Florianisme">@Florianisme&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/jassycliq">@jassycliq&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/tukilo">@tukilo&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/vnidens">@vnidens&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Vardex">@Vardex&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/MrLemur">@MrLemur&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/willtrking">@willtrking&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/sachk">@sachk&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/PalAditya">@PalAditya&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/okan35">@okan35&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/jemlule">@jemlule&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/jsquyres">@jsquyres&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/ferferga">@ferferga&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Aerion">@Aerion&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/dhiaayachi">@dhiaayachi&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/jakeapp">@jakeapp&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/GodTamIt">@GodTamIt&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/JannikHoelling">@JannikHoelling&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h2 id="changelog">Changelog&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Full changelog with all pull requests available on &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-androidtv/releases/tag/v0.12.0">GitHub&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="download-now">Download Now&lt;/h2>
&lt;a class="NoLinkLook" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.jellyfin.androidtv">
&lt;img width="153" alt='Jellyfin for Android TV on Google Play' src="https://jellyfin.org/images/store-icons/google-play.png" />
&lt;/a>
&lt;a class="NoLinkLook" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TX7Z725">
&lt;img width="153" alt="Jellyfin for Fire TV at Amazon App Store" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/store-icons/amazon.png" />
&lt;/a>
&lt;p>Direct downloads are always available from &lt;a href="https://repo.jellyfin.org/releases/client/androidtv/">our repository&lt;/a>.
You can also join our &lt;a href="https://play.google.com/apps/testing/org.jellyfin.androidtv">beta program on Google Play&lt;/a> to test new versions.&lt;/p>
&lt;div class="footnotes" role="doc-endnotes">
&lt;hr>
&lt;ol>
&lt;li id="fn:1">
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-androidtv/projects/2?card_filter_query=is%3Apr+is%3Amerged">v0.12.0 project filtered by merged pull requests&lt;/a>&amp;#160;&lt;a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;li id="fn:2">
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-androidtv/compare/v0.11.5...v0.12.0-beta.7">Git comparison between v0.11.5 and v0.12.0-beta.7&lt;/a>&amp;#160;&lt;a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&amp;#x21a9;&amp;#xfe0e;&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;/li>
&lt;/ol>
&lt;/div></description></item><item><title>Jellyfin Android v2.3.0 - Improved Integrated Player</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/android-v2.3.0/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/android-v2.3.0/</guid><description>&lt;p>After a prolonged beta testing period, we&amp;rsquo;re excited to announce that version 2.3.0 of the Jellyfin Android app is now available!&lt;/p>
&lt;p>A lot things have changed since the last stable release, mainly to improve stability and compatibility with the Jellyfin Server.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Communication between the Android app and the server was updated to use &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-sdk-kotlin">a new library&lt;/a> that supports more modern technologies which improves the development process and allows us to support additional features in the future, eventually resulting in a fully native app that&amp;rsquo;s specifically optimized for phones.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Due to the library changes, the new version of the app &lt;strong>only supports servers of version 10.7.0 or later&lt;/strong>, so make sure your server is up-to-date before you install the update!&lt;/p>
&lt;h3 id="integrated-video-player-improvements">Integrated Video Player Improvements&lt;/h3>
&lt;p>The integrated/native video player was especially reworked and supports playlists now (so that you can binge-watch your shows more easily), allows setting the playback speed and introduced an option in the client settings to remember the screen brightness applied through gestures.&lt;/p>
&lt;img alt="Playback speed controls" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/android-v2.3.0/exoplayer-speed-controls.png" />
&lt;p>The Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode now respects the aspect ratio of your media and will have smooth animations when entering it.
Soon, you&amp;rsquo;ll also be able to select a bitrate limit to force transcoded streaming and reduce data usage, so please look forward to the next updates!&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="polishing-and-bug-fixes">Polishing and Bug Fixes&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>You can now set the location to download content to in the client settings.
There were also a lot of bug fixes which will improve the experience with the app, not only in the native player but also for Android Auto support and when casting media to Chromecast.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="download-now">Download Now&lt;/h2>
&lt;a class="NoLinkLook" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.jellyfin.mobile">
&lt;img width="153" alt="Jellyfin on Google Play" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/store-icons/google-play.png" />
&lt;/a>
&lt;a class="NoLinkLook" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B081RFTTQ9">
&lt;img width="153" alt="Jellyfin on Amazon App Store" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/store-icons/amazon.png" />
&lt;/a>
&lt;a class="NoLinkLook" href="https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jellyfin.mobile/">
&lt;img width="153" alt="Jellyfin on F-Droid" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/store-icons/fdroid.png" />
&lt;/a>
&lt;p>Direct downloads are always available from &lt;a href="https://repo.jellyfin.org/releases/client/android/">our repository&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="full-release-notes">Full Release Notes&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>The full (technical) release notes are available on &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-android/releases/tag/v2.3.0">GitHub&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="contributors">Contributors&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>As always, lots of great people contributed in this release:&lt;/p>
&lt;h3 id="jellyfin-team">Jellyfin Team&lt;/h3>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/nielsvanvelzen">@nielsvanvelzen&lt;/a> - &lt;a href="https://github.com/sponsors/nielsvanvelzen">Sponsor&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Maxr1998">@Maxr1998&lt;/a> - &lt;a href="https://github.com/sponsors/Maxr1998">Sponsor&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/h1dden-da3m0n">@h1dden-da3m0n&lt;/a> - &lt;em>Special shout-out for helping with the migration to GitHub Actions!&lt;/em>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/ferferga">@ferferga&lt;/a> - &lt;a href="https://github.com/sponsors/ferferga">Sponsor&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h3 id="others">Others&lt;/h3>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/CarlosOlivo">@CarlosOlivo&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/fedesenmartin">@fedesenmartin&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/ThreeFive-O">@ThreeFive-O&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Codex-">@Codex-&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/diederikdehaas">@diederikdehaas&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h3 id="contribute">Contribute&lt;/h3>
&lt;p>If you have some experience with Android development and are interested in contributing yourself, feel free to dive into the source code &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-android">on GitHub&lt;/a> and open pull requests!&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Alternatively, you can help translating the app into your language on our &lt;a href="https://translate.jellyfin.org/projects/jellyfin-android/jellyfin-android/">Weblate&lt;/a>.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Regarding the Android betas</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/android-betas/</link><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/android-betas/</guid><description>&lt;!-- markdownlint-disable MD033 -->
&lt;p>With the release of the first Android TV 0.12 release beta, this is a good time to explain how our Android beta programs work and how to start using them. The mobile app has used a public beta channel for around a year now and with the Android TV app coming close to a new release we&amp;rsquo;re adding a similar program for that as well.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="what-is-the-difference-between-release-and-beta">What is the difference between release and beta?&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>A beta version is an early build of an upcoming release. This means that most of the new features are available but there might still be some issues. In the case of the Jellyfin Android apps, we might release a beta version because we expect issues or want to test something with a larger audience. Generally the beta cycle should only last a short period.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="should-i-use-a-beta-version">Should I use a beta version?&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Beta versions may contain issues. Those issues could vary from a small annoyance to a major issue that prevents you from signing in to your server. Do not use a beta version if you are unable to provide bug reports with app-logs and reproducible steps.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="how-do-i-report-problems">How do I report problems?&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>If you encounter a problem, we would appreciate a detailed issue with app-logs and reproducible steps so we can fix the problem before release. To do this, you will need an account on GitHub and open an issue on the repository for the app.&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-androidtv/issues/new/choose">GitHub issues Android TV&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-android/issues/new/choose">GitHub issues Android (mobile)&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h2 id="where-do-i-get-the-beta">Where do I get the beta?&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>The beta releases are only available on the Google Play store or in our own repository. Users of F-Droid or the Amazon Appstore can sideload the apk files available in our repository or wait for the release.&lt;/p>
&lt;h3 id="what-about-the-amazon-appstore">What about the Amazon Appstore?&lt;/h3>
&lt;p>The Amazon Appstore has no options for beta apps. Therefore, we unfortunately cannot provide beta versions of the app to users who do not have a Play Store on their device.&lt;/p>
&lt;h3 id="android-tv">Android TV&lt;/h3>
&lt;a class="NoLinkLook" href="https://play.google.com/apps/testing/org.jellyfin.androidtv">
&lt;img width="153" alt="Jellyfin for Android TV on Google Play" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/store-icons/google-play.png" />
&lt;/a>
&lt;p>Direct downloads available in &lt;a href="https://repo.jellyfin.org/releases/client/androidtv/">our repository&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;h3 id="android-mobile">Android (mobile)&lt;/h3>
&lt;a class="NoLinkLook" href="https://play.google.com/apps/testing/org.jellyfin.mobile">
&lt;img width="153" alt="Jellyfin on Google Play" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/store-icons/google-play.png" />
&lt;/a>
&lt;p>Direct downloads available in &lt;a href="https://repo.jellyfin.org/releases/client/android/">our repository&lt;/a>.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Introducing Jellyfin Media Player</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/client-jmp/</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/client-jmp/</guid><description>&lt;p>Jellyfin Media Player is a new Jellyfin client option intended to offer a more user-friendly experience. It takes the user interface from jellyfin-web, including the playback interface, and combines it with the extensive codec support from MPV.&lt;/p>
&lt;img src="https://jellyfin.org/images/jmp/player.png" name="Player" />
&lt;p>You can &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-media-player/releases">download the client on GitHub&lt;/a>. It is also available on &lt;a href="https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.iwalton3.jellyfin-media-player">FlatHub&lt;/a> and the &lt;a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jellyfin-media-player/">AUR&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="extensive-feature-set">Extensive Feature Set&lt;/h2>
&lt;img src="https://jellyfin.org/images/jmp/config.png" name="Configuration Dialog" />
&lt;p>Building on the open source foundation of Plex Media Player, this client has support for selecting audio devices and configuring audio passthrough. It also supports changing the refresh rate of your display to match the video content. You can control the client with some remote controls, game controllers, and media keys through jellyfin-web’s TV display mode, in addition to remote control through the Jellyfin mobile apps. While testing the client it was known to be controllable with a PS3 controller in TV mode.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Since the media player is built on MPV, the mpv.conf file may be used to install scripts and shaders, as well as for tweaking the playback characteristics to the user’s liking. The software is also known to work with SVP with some tweaking of configuration files.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="music-support">Music Support&lt;/h2>
&lt;img src="https://jellyfin.org/images/jmp/music.png" name="Music Playback" />
&lt;p>Jellyfin Media Player can also natively play music in addition to videos. Being built on jellyfin-web and implementing player support as plugins, all features of the web client are available as usual, including server management. The client can connect to and switch between multiple separate servers.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="extensive-cross-platform-support">Extensive Cross-Platform Support&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Through the help from several community contributions, Jellyfin Media Player now builds for Windows, macOS, and Linux. All release builds are automated through GitHub Actions. Linux users will be happy to know that Debian, Ubuntu, Flatpak, and AUR packages are available. Contributors are already improving the software’s foundation and have gotten it working on Wayland as well.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>A Note About Privacy and Expo for iOS</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/a-note-about-privacy-and-expo/</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/a-note-about-privacy-and-expo/</guid><description>&lt;p>When it comes to Jellyfin, we guarantee that there is no involuntary tracking, from the server to the mobile apps. This still remains true, even with today&amp;rsquo;s update to the Apple App Store.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>In developing the Jellyfin Mobile app for iOS, we use a Javascript framework known as &lt;a href="https://expo.io">Expo&lt;/a>. This framework is an integrated way of using &lt;a href="https://reactnative.dev">React Native&lt;/a> to create mobile apps. For a variety of technical reasons, this has been the best way for us to deliver an iOS app, even with its current restrictions.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Starting with an update in December 2020, Apple has required all developers to submit Privacy Information with any new app, or any update to an app. There is an article covering these &amp;ldquo;privacy badges&amp;rdquo; available on Apple&amp;rsquo;s website: &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT211970">HT211970 - About privacy information on the App Store&amp;hellip;&lt;/a>&amp;rdquo;. As of our last Jellyfin Mobile update, we believed we were in the clear here - the Jellyfin app does not contain any code to track you or report any data. We declared this in our update information, and received the &amp;ldquo;Data Not Collected&amp;rdquo; badge.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>However, we learned that Expo has an issue that prevents this from being true. In February, we were contacted by Apple, and received a notice that our badge was incorrect, and needs to be updated. We inquired into this further with Expo, in their forums: &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="https://forums.expo.io/t/mail-from-app-store-connect-about-facebook-app-events/48927">Mail from App Store Connect about Facebook App Events&lt;/a>&amp;rdquo;. When we use Expo to build the app (their &amp;ldquo;managed&amp;rdquo; workflow), their compiler automatically includes base code for a variety of different items, which includes code that can be used to provide analytics and tracking information. Even though we don&amp;rsquo;t use any of these functions, this code is included in the final app binary, so we are now forced to declare that app can access the Device Identifier.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="i-want-to-stress-again-we-do-not-track-any-user-activity-or-collect-any-data">I want to stress again: &lt;strong>We do not track any user activity or collect any data.&lt;/strong>&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>You can verify this by reviewing the code base here on GitHub: &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-expo">jellyfin/jellyfin-expo&lt;/a>&amp;rdquo;. Expo&amp;rsquo;s current build process includes code that &lt;em>could&lt;/em> be used for tracking, but it is never activated by our code, and we do not use it at all. Because this code is ultimately in the app, we have to update the badge on the App Store listing. As Expo explains on their &lt;a href="https://docs.expo.io/distribution/app-stores/#ios-specific-guidelines">publishing details page&lt;/a>:&lt;/p>
&lt;blockquote>
&lt;p>Note: No data is sent to Branch, Facebook, Segment, or Amplitude from your app unless you explicitly do so using the APIs.&lt;/p>
&lt;/blockquote>
&lt;p>In the &lt;a href="https://forums.expo.io/t/mail-from-app-store-connect-about-facebook-app-events/48927">forum thread&lt;/a>, Expo has committed to a future update allowing their automated build service to only include the code modules that you actively use, which would allow us to return to the &amp;ldquo;Data Not Collected&amp;rdquo; badge. In an effort to help improve the app and add more features, we are looking to &amp;ldquo;eject&amp;rdquo; from Expo in the future, which means we can completely control the build process by ourselves.&lt;/p>
&lt;hr>
&lt;p>Thank you for using Jellyfin and supporting us this far. Our iOS app is largely developed only by one contributor, &lt;a href="https://github.com/thornbill">@thornbill&lt;/a>, who gives generously of his spare time to develop the app and make it better all the time. He, along with a few of our &lt;a href="https://github.com/orgs/jellyfin/people">contributors&lt;/a> have donation pages setup either through GitHub Sponsors, or other sites like LiberaPay, Patreon and more. If you&amp;rsquo;d like to support any of them, please see their profiles for more information. If you&amp;rsquo;d like to support Jellyfin as a whole (infrastructure and equipment costs only), you can visit our public ledger on &lt;a href="https://opencollective.com/jellyfin">OpenCollective&lt;/a>. We&amp;rsquo;re pretty well covered for now, so consider donating to contributors first.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Stay tuned for future posts talking about app updates, how we are committed to protecting privacy with Jellyfin, and on our contributor community, including how you can support them and development.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Best,
Anthony&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>The Jellyfin CDN: Mirrorbits for the masses</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/mirrorbits-cdn/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/mirrorbits-cdn/</guid><description>&lt;p>For many projects, distributing binary assets is easy: put the files on GitHub and you&amp;rsquo;re done. It&amp;rsquo;s not something many think about. But at Jellyfin, we needed something more robust, something able to handle our needs more elegantly than GitHub or a basic web server could. And both for those interested, and for those supporting other similar projects, I&amp;rsquo;d like to share how we do it.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="prelude---pre-1060">Prelude - Pre-10.6.0&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Before our 10.6.0 release, we had a fairly simple repository setup: everything would build on a VPS, running Debian, called &lt;code>build1&lt;/code>, in response to a GitHub web-hook. This server, located on Digital Ocean in the Toronto zone, housed both the build process as well as our main repository, served directly via NGiNX.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>But this release was the first where we noticed a problem. Jellyfin is a global project, and while I&amp;rsquo;m personally located in Ontario, Canada, the very vast majority of our users are not. And users, especially users in Europe and Asia, were having trouble downloading our releases. The main complaint was abysmally slow download speeds, and occasionally even full-on timeouts. We had to come up with a better solution.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>As a DIYer at heart, and leading a project built by and for DIYers, I wasn&amp;rsquo;t content to simply throw CloudFlare in front of the repo - my concerns with that provider notwithstanding. I wanted something we could control, and I went looking for a solution - how to effectively create a CDN for file downloads.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="enter-mirrorbits">Enter Mirrorbits&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Luckily, I wasn&amp;rsquo;t alone. Many years before, another FLOSS project had encountered the same problem. VideoLAN, creators of the fantastic VLC Media Player, had the same issue of distributing files. So one of their talented developers created a solution: Mirrorbits.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/etix/mirrorbits">Mirrorbits&lt;/a> is a Go program with a single goal: provide a way to distribute requests from a single central repository to multiple geo-diverse repositories, based on the client&amp;rsquo;s GeoIP information, handling availability and freshness seamlessly. It seemed to fit the bill exactly.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>But there was a problem: documentation on how to actually run Mirrorbits was sparse, so it took quite a bit of trial-and-error to determine how to use it. I hope the following will help avoid this trouble for anyone else.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="file-layout">File Layout&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>The first thing to consider is the layout of the files. In Jellyfin&amp;rsquo;s case, our repository is large and sprawling, constituting many different components including the server, clients, plugins, and various secondary files. Mirrorbits requires everything to be housed under one directory, and we needed a way to synchronize this whole directory easily. We also had a problem of our &amp;ldquo;archives&amp;rdquo;, old stable releases that we did not need or want synchronized to all of our mirror servers wasting space.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The solution I came up with was the following directory structure:&lt;/p>
&lt;pre tabindex="0">&lt;code>/srv/repository
/mirror
/releases
/client
/server
/plugin
etc.
/debian
/dists
/pool
/ubuntu
/dists
/pool
/archive
etc.
/releases --symlink--&amp;gt; /mirror/releases
/debian --symlink--&amp;gt; /mirror/debian
etc.
&lt;/code>&lt;/pre>&lt;p>In effect, everything is under a &lt;code>/mirror&lt;/code> directory, with external symlinks to provide the root links we wanted.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="additional-vpses-and-synchronization">Additional VPSes and Synchronization&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>The next step after crafting a usable file layout was to create some additional VPSes and determine how to synchronize the files.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Since our origin server is in Toronto, I wanted to ensure we had wide geographic coverage. as well as a dedicated CDN for the same region as the origin server, just in case it got overloaded. Thus, I created 4 additional VPSes:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;code>tor1.mirror.jellyfin.org&lt;/code>: Toronto, Ontario, Canada for North/South America East&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;code>sfo1.mirror.jellyfin.org&lt;/code>: San Francisco, California, USA for North/South America West&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;code>fra1.mirror.jellyfin.org&lt;/code>: Frankfurt, Germany (not France as commonly assumed!) for Europe and Africa&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;code>sgp1.mirror.jellyfin.org&lt;/code>: Singapore for Asia and Pacific&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;p>One worry when first setting up these 4 VPSes was that they would not be enough, but so far, through another major release and several minor releases, we&amp;rsquo;ve had the complaints about download speed completely stop, so they must be working. In future, as Digital Ocean expands, we&amp;rsquo;d also be able to add other locations as well, for instance Bangalore, India, Africa, and perhaps additional Europe and South America instances.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>With the VPSes created, I then looked into file synchronization, and there was only one program on my mind: &lt;code>rsync&lt;/code>. But while most users know &lt;code>rsync&lt;/code> for it&amp;rsquo;s &lt;code>scp&lt;/code>-replacement functionality over SSH, I wanted something more robust without the need for handling SSH keys, and able to be extended further in the future, perhaps to untrusted (and untrusting) 3rd-party mirrors.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>I thus opted to use the &lt;code>rsync&lt;/code> daemon mode. Listening on port 873, it&amp;rsquo;s able to do everything &lt;code>rsync&lt;/code>-over-SSH can do, only without encryption overhead or requiring SSH/shell authentication.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>I first prepared the the local &lt;code>/etc/rsyncd.conf&lt;/code> on the origin server (&lt;code>build1&lt;/code>). By default, the Debian &lt;code>rsync&lt;/code> package does not install the daemon service unless this file exists, but after adding it the daemon can be started.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>To handle the aforementioned &amp;ldquo;archives&amp;rdquo;, I split the repository into two &amp;ldquo;components&amp;rdquo;: one with the archives, and one without. This would allow a given mirror to pull either the entire archive, or just the current stable repositories. And once we started offering the &amp;ldquo;unstable&amp;rdquo; builds that can be generated many dozens of times per day, I opted to include them in the &amp;ldquo;archive&amp;rdquo; component as well.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Here is our configuration:&lt;/p>
&lt;pre tabindex="0">&lt;code># /etc/rsyncd.conf
[mirror]
path = /srv/repository/mirror
comment = Jellyfin mirror (stable only)
exclude = *unstable* *archive*
[mirror-full]
path = /srv/repository/mirror
comment = Jellyfin mirror (all)
&lt;/code>&lt;/pre>&lt;p>In many cases, it would be prudent to secure this, but since we wanted to open this up to anyone, I left the &lt;code>rsync&lt;/code> endpoint completely exposed. Thus, if you want to host a local Jellyfin mirror - you can. Simply clone this rsync target and you&amp;rsquo;ll have a full copy of the Jellyfin mirror!&lt;/p>
&lt;p>On the mirror servers, we still needed to get the content however. Ultimately, I decided that every &amp;ldquo;official&amp;rdquo; mirror copying the &lt;em>full&lt;/em> content (including archives and unstable builds) was more prudent, so all of them synchronize the &lt;code>mirror-full&lt;/code> source.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Each node thus has a simple cron job, set to run every 15 minutes, that downloads an updated copy of the repository from the origin:&lt;/p>
&lt;pre tabindex="0">&lt;code># /etc/cron.d/mirror-sync
12,27,42,57 * * * * root rsync -au --delete rsync://build1.jellyfin.org/mirror-full/ /srv/repository/mirror/
&lt;/code>&lt;/pre>&lt;p>The slightly odd times were chosen specifically - the goal for 3rd parties, if and when we officially support them, would be to synchronize every X minutes on even intervals, e.g. at &lt;code>00&lt;/code>, &lt;code>30&lt;/code>, etc., from these &amp;ldquo;official&amp;rdquo; mirrors, instead of from build1 directly. This therefore ensures they would always be up-to-date before that time comes around, ensuring no additional delays for 3rd party mirrors. We don&amp;rsquo;t officially support this &lt;em>yet&lt;/em>, but if our traffic continues to grow, we will probably expand to 3rd parties as well as additional Digital Ocean locations.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The &lt;code>rsync&lt;/code> command should create the destination directory automatically, but to be prudent, I ensured it was created manually first. Thus, we now have 5 servers with exactly the same content, with the mirrors synchronizing from the origin every 15 minutes.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="web-server-configuration">Web server Configuration&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>From the very beginning we have used NGiNX as the web server. The reasons are simple: maximum configuration flexibility, and performance. Apache has its place, but we didn&amp;rsquo;t need its additional features, and early on budget was tight. I&amp;rsquo;ve been so satisfied with it, I haven&amp;rsquo;t even considered a change.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>On the mirrors, the configuration is dead-simple. Only a single &amp;ldquo;site&amp;rdquo; is configured, providing full access to the repository directory. SSL is provided by Let&amp;rsquo;s Encrypt.&lt;/p>
&lt;pre tabindex="0">&lt;code># /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/jellyfin-mirror (from fra1.mirror.jellyfin.org)
server {
listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:443 ssl ipv6only=on;
listen 443 ssl;
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/fra1.mirror.jellyfin.org/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/fra1.mirror.jellyfin.org/privkey.pem;
include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf;
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem;
server_name fra1.mirror.jellyfin.org _;
root /srv/repository;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
aio threads;
directio 1M;
output_buffers 3 1M;
sendfile on;
sendfile_max_chunk 0;
autoindex on;
location ~ [^/]\.php(/|$) {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+?\.php)(/.*)$;
fastcgi_param HTTP_PROXY &amp;#34;&amp;#34;;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.3-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
}
&lt;/code>&lt;/pre>&lt;p>During testing, we did notice one thing that might be of use to other admins. We were finding that performance, when many requests for large files came in at once, would drop significantly. I ended up tracing the problem to the I/O stack within NGiNX, which appeared to be a bottleneck. I was able to find some documentation about this problem, and thus have set the &lt;code>aio threads&lt;/code>, &lt;code>directio&lt;/code>, &lt;code>output_buffers&lt;/code>, and &lt;code>sendfile&lt;/code> options above. These ensure NGiNX will use direct I/O for any file larger than 1M, and provide 3 output buffers with a maximum chunk size of 0, increasing performance under load.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>On the origin, the NGiNX configuration is much more complicated. Because Mirrorbits will only distribute the actual large files themselves, I need to handle any pre-file redirection first on the origin. Thus clients are directed to the right file location, and the Mirrorbits directs &lt;em>that&lt;/em> request to the mirrors.&lt;/p>
&lt;pre tabindex="0">&lt;code># /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/jellyfin-origin (on build1.jellyfin.org)
server {
listen 80 default_server proxy_protocol;
listen [::]:80 default_server proxy_protocol;
server_name repo.jellyfin.org build.jellyfin.org repo1.jellyfin.org build1.jellyfin.org _;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log proxy;
aio threads;
directio 1M;
output_buffers 3 1M;
sendfile on;
sendfile_max_chunk 0;
autoindex on;
root /srv/repository/mirror;
index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
location / {
autoindex off;
}
#
# Kodi Repository redirection
#
location ^~ /releases/client/kodi/py2 {
index index.html index.php;
autoindex on;
}
location ^~ /releases/client/kodi/py3 {
index index.html index.php;
autoindex on;
}
location ^~ /releases/client/kodi {
# Kodi 20
if ($http_user_agent ~* &amp;#34;(Kodi.*/20.*)&amp;#34;) {
rewrite ^/releases/client/kodi/(.*)$ /releases/client/kodi/py3/$1 last;
}
# Kodi 19
if ($http_user_agent ~* &amp;#34;(Kodi.*/19.*)&amp;#34;) {
rewrite ^/releases/client/kodi/(.*)$ /releases/client/kodi/py3/$1 last;
}
# Kodi 18 and older
if ($http_user_agent ~* &amp;#34;(Kodi.*)&amp;#34;) {
rewrite ^/releases/client/kodi/(.*)$ /releases/client/kodi/py2/$1 last;
}
index index.html index.php;
autoindex on;
}
#
# Main repository
#
# Main release directories
location /releases {
autoindex on;
}
# Main archive directories (not forwarded to Mirrorbits)
location ^~ /archive {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
autoindex on;
}
# Mirrorbits fallback
location ^~ /master {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
autoindex on;
}
# Mirrorbits forwards for large file types
location ~ ^/(?&amp;lt;fwd_path&amp;gt;.*)(?&amp;lt;fwd_file&amp;gt;\.apk|\.buildinfo|\.bz|\.changes|\.db|\.deb|\.dmg|\.dsc|\.exe|\.gz|\.md5|\.lzma|\.rpm|\.sha256sum|\.xml|\.xz|\.zip|\.css|\.ttf|\.woff2|\.json)$ {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
proxy_buffering off;
}
location ~ ^/(?&amp;lt;fwd_path&amp;gt;.*)(/mirrorlist)$ {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/$fwd_path?mirrorlist;
proxy_buffering off;
}
location ~ ^/(?&amp;lt;fwd_path&amp;gt;.*)(/mirrorstats)$ {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/$fwd_path?mirrorstats;
proxy_buffering off;
}
location /mirrorstats {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/?mirrorstats;
proxy_buffering off;
}
#
# PHP handling
#
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+?\.php)(/.*)$;
fastcgi_param HTTP_PROXY &amp;#34;&amp;#34;;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.3-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
}
&lt;/code>&lt;/pre>&lt;p>Some of the configuration here is worthy of describing in detail.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The Kodi selector is used due to the Kodi backend transition from Python 2 to Python 3. Thus, some versions require assets for Python 2, and newer versions for Python 3. This selector operates based on the sent user agent of the client, deciding which version of Kodi they are using, and thus directing them to the right location.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The main locations are &lt;code>/archive&lt;/code>, &lt;code>/releases&lt;/code>, and &lt;code>/master&lt;/code>. The first contains archives and is not forwarded on to the Mirrorbits process (despite the files being synced above) due to the &lt;code>try_files&lt;/code> directive. The second is the main repository directory, and the third is a duplicate location that is used for fallback and also does not redirect to Mirrorbits.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Next is the main Mirrorbits handler. The forwarding is based off the file extension of the requested file. Thus, when loading, e.g. the PHP index pages, the requests are not forwarded; only requests for the listed file types are forwarded on to the Mirrorbits process to be distributed to mirrors.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The next 3 options are for Mirrorbits status pages, which provide information on the currently available mirrors. For any file (e.g. &lt;a href="https://repo.jellyfin.org/releases/server/debian/stable/meta/jellyfin_10.7.2-1_all.deb)">https://repo.jellyfin.org/releases/server/debian/stable/meta/jellyfin_10.7.2-1_all.deb)&lt;/a>, one can append the &lt;code>/mirrorlist&lt;/code> or &lt;code>/mirrorinfo&lt;/code> locations to show information about the available mirrors. Try it yourself: &lt;a href="https://repo.jellyfin.org/releases/server/debian/stable/meta/jellyfin_10.7.2-1_all.deb/mirrorlist">https://repo.jellyfin.org/releases/server/debian/stable/meta/jellyfin_10.7.2-1_all.deb/mirrorlist&lt;/a>. Finally the &lt;code>/mirrorstats&lt;/code> page, whether on a file or at the root of the domain (&lt;a href="https://repo.jellyfin.org/mirrorstats">https://repo.jellyfin.org/mirrorstats&lt;/a>) shows the current status of the mirrors in general, including if any are offline.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>All together, these NGiNX configs provide the foundation for Mirrorbits to work, and this was the part that actually took the longest. Thanks to &lt;a href="https://github.com/PalinuroSec">@PalinuroSec&lt;/a> on GitHub for his &lt;a href="https://gist.github.com/PalinuroSec/f0bfb815240573ab1b0b58f3c76620d4">fantastic example gist&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="mirrorbits-the-workhorse">Mirrorbits: The Workhorse&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Installing Mirrorbits is quite straightforward: I simply downloaded the latest binary release (&lt;code>0.5.1&lt;/code>) from the Mirrorbits repository, installed the &lt;code>mirrorbits&lt;/code> binary to &lt;code>/usr/local/bin&lt;/code>, the sample configuration to &lt;code>/etc/mirrorbits.conf&lt;/code>, and the templates to &lt;code>/usr/local/share/mirrorbits&lt;/code>. Unfortunately, Mirrorbits development seems to have stalled since 2018, including documentation. &lt;a href="https://github.com/etix/mirrorbits/issues/105">I opened an issue&lt;/a> during my troubleshooting that is still unanswered, which is unfortunate, and I hope this blog post will be able to resolve that issue.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The basic configuration of Mirrorbits is quite simple. Most of the configuration options are explained well in the sample configuration file, and it was simply a matter of tuning them to our needs. Here is our configuration stripped of comments/explanations:&lt;/p>
&lt;pre tabindex="0">&lt;code># /etc/mirrorbits.conf (on build1.jellyfin.org)
Repository: /srv/repository/mirror
Templates: /usr/local/share/mirrorbits/
LogDir: /var/log/mirrorbits
GeoipDatabasePath: /usr/local/share/GeoIP/
OutputMode: redirect
Gzip: false
ListenAddress: localhost:8080
RPCListenAddress: localhost:3390
RedisAddress: 127.0.0.1:6379
RedisDB: 0
TraceFileLocation: /mirrorsync
RepositoryScanInterval: 5
Hashes:
SHA256: On
ConcurrentSync: 5
ScanInterval: 30
CheckInterval: 1
Fallbacks:
- URL: https://repo.jellyfin.org/master/
CountryCode: ca
ContinentCode: na
&lt;/code>&lt;/pre>&lt;p>A few options are worth mentioning as they differ from the obvious defaults.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;code>Repository&lt;/code> points towards the local repository path, the exact file(s) that are synchronized with &lt;code>rsync&lt;/code> above.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;code>GeoipDatabasePath&lt;/code> is a path to a local copy of the GeoIP database; this will be discussed later.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;code>OutputMode&lt;/code> is set to &lt;code>redirect&lt;/code> to give clients an HTTP 302 redirect to the file path. There are several options here, but the 302 seemed like the most robust, being well-supported by most HTTP-speaking programs and preventing caching of the response.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;code>TraceFileLocation&lt;/code> points to a file which is used to judge the &amp;ldquo;freshness&amp;rdquo; of the mirrors. It should be a file which guarantees that the remote copies of the repository are in sync with the local instance, and must be under the &lt;code>Repository&lt;/code> location.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;code>Hashes&lt;/code> provides several options, but we use SHA256 hashing for simplicity and to match our own provided hashes.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;code>RedisAddress&lt;/code> points to a local Redis instance that Mirrorbits uses to handle state.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;code>ConcurrentSync&lt;/code>, &lt;code>RepositoryScanInterval&lt;/code>, &lt;code>ScanInterval&lt;/code>, and &lt;code>CheckInterval&lt;/code> are times in minutes that Mirrorbits &lt;em>should&lt;/em> be checking and synchronizing itself, but I&amp;rsquo;ve found these to be unreliable; I used a cron task to do these tasks manually instead.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Finally, &lt;code>Fallbacks&lt;/code> provides a list of fallback mirrors. As mentioned above, the &lt;code>/master&lt;/code> path provides the exact same content as &lt;code>/releases&lt;/code>, only without being forwarded back to Mirrorbits and creating a loop. Without this fallback, if all mirrors are unavailable for any given file, either due to its newness or due to mirror failures, clients would not be able to download files at all. The fallback ensures there is still at least one source - the origin - that is not normally used, but can be just in case.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The next step was creating a SystemD service for Mirrorbits. The process requires some special options for reloads and stopping, so these are included here. Note also that I run Mirrorbits as &lt;code>www-data&lt;/code>, the same user as NGiNX itself:&lt;/p>
&lt;pre tabindex="0">&lt;code># /etc/systemd/system/mirorrbits.service
[Unit]
Description=Mirrorbits redirector
Documentation=https://github.com/etix/mirrorbits
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=notify
DynamicUser=yes
LogsDirectory=mirrorbits
RuntimeDirectory=mirrorbits
User=www-data
PIDFile=/run/mirrorbits/mirrorbits.pid
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/mirrorbits daemon -p /run/mirrorbits/mirrorbits.pid -debug
ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
ExecStop=-/bin/kill -QUIT $MAINPID
TimeoutStopSec=5
KillMode=mixed
Restart=on-failure
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
&lt;/code>&lt;/pre>&lt;p>Finally, I added some cron jobs to ensure that the &lt;code>TraceFileLocation&lt;/code> is updated regularly, and that the mirror is scanned and refreshed regularly - the things that Mirrorbits itself didn&amp;rsquo;t seem to be handling properly. The trace file is always updated 1 minute before the sync happens, while the mirror scan happens 1 minute after, to give the sync time to complete. The local repository is refreshed every minute to catch any new files as quickly as possible.&lt;/p>
&lt;pre tabindex="0">&lt;code># /etc/cron.d/mirror-sync
11,26,41,56 * * * * root /usr/bin/date +\%s | /usr/bin/tee /srv/repository/mirror/mirrorsync &amp;amp;&amp;gt;/dev/null
13,28,42,58 * * * * root /usr/local/bin/mirrorbits scan -all
* * * * * root /usr/local/bin/mirrorbits refresh
&lt;/code>&lt;/pre>&lt;h2 id="adding-mirrors-to-mirrorbits">Adding Mirrors to Mirrorbits&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Once all the setup was completed and Mirrorbits running, I added the mirrors to the Mirrorbits system. This is a straightforward process using the Mirrorbits binary:&lt;/p>
&lt;pre tabindex="0">&lt;code>mirrorbits add -http https://fra1.mirror.jellyfin.org -rsync rsync://fra1.mirror.jellyfin.org/mirror fra1
mirrorbits scan --enable fra1
mirrorbits refresh
&lt;/code>&lt;/pre>&lt;p>Once scanned, enabled, and refreshed, the mirror became active and and visible in the &lt;code>/mirrorstats&lt;/code> output or on the CLI, ready to serve requests.&lt;/p>
&lt;pre tabindex="0">&lt;code>joshua@build1.jellyfin.org ~ $ mirrorbits list
Identifier STATE SINCE
fra1 up (Mon, 12 Apr 2021 07:15:29 UTC)
sgp1 up (Mon, 12 Apr 2021 06:51:03 UTC)
tor1 up (Sun, 11 Apr 2021 21:48:48 UTC)
sfo1 up (Sun, 11 Apr 2021 17:43:27 UTC)
&lt;/code>&lt;/pre>&lt;h2 id="geoip">GeoIP&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>One complication of using Mirrorbits is requiring a GeoIP database. It specifically requires the &lt;code>GeoLite2&lt;/code> &lt;code>mmdb&lt;/code> format to operate correctly. Unfortunately, this is no longer something that is provided freely. You must obtain this yourself, or find an alternative; I would prefer to use a freely available database, but I have yet to be able to find one that works with Mirrorbits. If you know of one, please let me know!&lt;/p>
&lt;p>This database is extracted to the &lt;code>GeoipDatabasePath&lt;/code> location and is loaded by Mirrorbits at runtime, providing the GeoIP information it then uses to direct clients to the nearest mirror server.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="conclusion">Conclusion&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>All together, we hope this setup allows us to continue to scale our downloads for our users across the world. And I hope this post will help another admin of a small project who needs to distribute their downloads across many geo-diverse servers. Good luck!&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Android app now on F-Droid</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/android-on-fdroid/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/android-on-fdroid/</guid><description>&lt;p>We&amp;rsquo;re happy to announce the immediate availability of the Android mobile app on the F-Droid store. The F-Droid version does not contain any proprietary libraries and builds are fully reproducible.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="missing-features">Missing features&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Unfortunately, the library required for casting support is proprietary, meaning that it&amp;rsquo;s not available under a free license and Google doesn&amp;rsquo;t publish the source code. Because of that, we had to remove it in the F-Droid version. Fortunately, the remote control feature still works.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Additionally, the Android Auto integration does not work because Google does not allow apps to integrate with it when the app was not installed from the Google Play store.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="download-now">Download Now&lt;/h2>
&lt;a class="NoLinkLook" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.jellyfin.mobile">
&lt;img width="153" alt="Jellyfin on Google Play" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/store-icons/google-play.png" />
&lt;/a>
&lt;a class="NoLinkLook" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B081RFTTQ9">
&lt;img width="153" alt="Jellyfin on Amazon App Store" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/store-icons/amazon.png" />
&lt;/a>
&lt;a class="NoLinkLook" href="https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jellyfin.mobile/">
&lt;img width="153" alt="Jellyfin on F-Droid" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/store-icons/fdroid.png" />
&lt;/a>
&lt;p>Direct downloads are always available from &lt;a href="https://repo.jellyfin.org/releases/client/android/">our repository&lt;/a>.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Please refresh your Jellyfin Apt key on Debian/Ubuntu</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-apt-key/</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-apt-key/</guid><description>&lt;p>Our GPG key for signing our Debian and Ubuntu repositories (&lt;code>https://repo.jellyfin.org/debian&lt;/code> and &lt;code>https://repo.jellyfin.org/ubuntu&lt;/code>) is set to expire next month.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Unfortunately this was an oversight when we first set up this repo, and we never provided any convenient way to update this. As a remedy, we&amp;rsquo;ve removed the expiry on the key and put a new version on the repo. This brings us into line with numerous other 3rd-party Debian repositories, such as the Microsoft .NET and Docker repositories which also use an expiry-less key, and should avoid any such issues again, barring a need to rotate it. This does however require manually refreshing the key on your system.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Doing this is as easy as re-running the command from the install docs; it will overwrite the old key with the new one:&lt;/p>
&lt;pre tabindex="0">&lt;code>wget -O- https://repo.jellyfin.org/jellyfin_team.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
&lt;/code>&lt;/pre>&lt;p>You can verify this worked by checking the &lt;code>apt-key&lt;/code> output like so; this is a good practice anyways to verify that the key has not been altered, as its signatures and fingerprint should all match:&lt;/p>
&lt;pre tabindex="0">&lt;code>$ apt-key list | grep -C2 jellyfin # Notice the expires: field
Warning: apt-key output should not be parsed (stdout is not a terminal)
pub rsa3072 2018-12-16 [SC] [expires: 2020-12-15]
4918 AABC 486C A052 358D 778D 4902 3CD0 1DE2 1A7B
uid [ unknown] Jellyfin Team &amp;lt;team@jellyfin.org&amp;gt;
sub rsa3072 2018-12-16 [E] [expires: 2020-12-15]
$ wget -O- https://repo.jellyfin.org/jellyfin_team.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
[...]
$ apt-key list | grep -C2 jellyfin # Notice the expires: is now gone
Warning: apt-key output should not be parsed (stdout is not a terminal)
pub rsa3072 2018-12-16 [SC]
4918 AABC 486C A052 358D 778D 4902 3CD0 1DE2 1A7B
uid [ unknown] Jellyfin Team &amp;lt;team@jellyfin.org&amp;gt;
sub rsa3072 2018-12-16 [E]
&lt;/code>&lt;/pre>&lt;p>If you find this didn&amp;rsquo;t work, try removing the key first with this command, then re-add it again:&lt;/p>
&lt;pre tabindex="0">&lt;code>sudo apt-key remove 1DE21A7B
&lt;/code>&lt;/pre>&lt;p>We&amp;rsquo;ve also published the key to the Ubuntu keyserver as a backup, just in case, or if you prefer this method. Our docs will retain the direct-file method however. You can use this command to obtain the key directly from the Ubuntu keyserver:&lt;/p>
&lt;pre tabindex="0">&lt;code>sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 1DE21A7B
&lt;/code>&lt;/pre>&lt;p>&lt;strong>Please ensure you refresh the key before December 15th, or you will find that &lt;code>apt update&lt;/code> no longer works!&lt;/strong>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>GitHub Issue for reference: &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/4528">https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/4528&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Reddit thread for reference: &lt;a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/comments/jz6u9o/debian_ubuntu_repo_users_our_key_is_expiring/">https://www.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/comments/jz6u9o/debian_ubuntu_repo_users_our_key_is_expiring/&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Thanks,
Joshua&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Android v2.1.0 - Jellyfin in your car!</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/android-v2.1.0/</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/android-v2.1.0/</guid><description>&lt;p>Jellyfin for Android version 2.1 is here with support for Android Auto.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>A new version of the Android app: version 2.1 has just been released! This update contains some quality of life improvements, some bugfixes and new features.
It&amp;rsquo;s been only a few weeks since 2.0 but we couldn&amp;rsquo;t wait to bring these new exiting changes to you. Let&amp;rsquo;s start with the most awesome feature.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="android-auto">Android Auto&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Starting with this update we now support playing music in cars. This change was contributed by &lt;a href="https://github.com/Spacetech">@Spacetech&lt;/a> and we are excited to release it. Right now it supports browsing your music library in multiple categories: latest, albums, artists, songs and genres. It allows shuffling your albums and shows thumbnails when available.&lt;/p>
&lt;video controls loop autoplay muted playsinline class="inline justify" height="500">
&lt;source src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/android-2-1-0/android-auto.webm" type="video/webm" />
&lt;/video>
&lt;p>&lt;em>&lt;strong>Note:&lt;/strong> since we do not have offline-support at the moment all music playback needs an active network connection to work. Be aware this may cause additional charges in your mobile plan.&lt;/em>&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="connectivity-issues">Connectivity issues&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Some users reported issues when connecting to their server. We&amp;rsquo;ve made some improvements to fix those problems:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>When your server uses an outdated version a warning is shown.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>If the webui fails to load we now show a proper error allowing you to change the server address.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Users with self-signed certificates should be able to use the app again.&lt;/li>
&lt;li>And lastly, when your device name includes special characters they are now removed to fix the &amp;ldquo;endless loading&amp;rdquo; issue.&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h2 id="playback-improvements">Playback improvements&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>The native video player (ExoPlayer) now supports zooming using gestures so you can remove the black bars from the video. We made some changes to which audio codecs are supported to prevent unnecessary transcoding. We also made some big changes to the structure of the app to fix an issue where you weren&amp;rsquo;t able to return to the app after leaving Picture-in-Picture mode.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>There is a new option in the settings to select which external player to use. The listed players should also report playback status back to Jellyfin to track what you watch and allow the app to resume playback. Issues with subtitles (especially external subtitles) should now be less common.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="f-droid">F-Droid&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>We have added the required metadata for F-Droid to our repository. We are currently working with the F-Droid team to get the app in their repository - we will post an additional announcement when this is ready.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="release-notes">Release Notes&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Full release notes available on &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-android/releases/tag/v2.1.0">GitHub&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="download-now">Download Now&lt;/h2>
&lt;a class="NoLinkLook" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.jellyfin.mobile">
&lt;img width="153" alt="Jellyfin on Google Play" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/store-icons/google-play.png" />
&lt;/a>
&lt;a class="NoLinkLook" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B081RFTTQ9">
&lt;img width="153" alt="Jellyfin on Amazon App Store" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/store-icons/amazon.png" />
&lt;/a>
&lt;p>Direct downloads are always available from &lt;a href="https://repo.jellyfin.org/releases/client/android/">our repository&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="contributors">Contributors&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>We are grateful to all contributors this release:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Maxr1998">@Maxr1998&lt;/a> - &lt;a href="https://github.com/sponsors/Maxr1998">Sponsor&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/nielsvanvelzen">@nielsvanvelzen&lt;/a> - &lt;a href="https://github.com/sponsors/nielsvanvelzen">Sponsor&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/vitorsemeano">@vitorsemeano&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/ferferga">@ferferga&lt;/a> - &lt;a href="https://github.com/sponsors/ferferga">Sponsor&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/CarlosOlivo">@CarlosOlivo&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Spacetech">@Spacetech&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/h1dden-da3m0n">@h1dden-da3m0n&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/IzzySoft">@IzzySoft&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>Android Developers Rejoice</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/android-next/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/android-next/</guid><description>&lt;p>This will be a net benefit for users and developers alike!&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Everyone will enjoy the native video player spearheaded by &lt;a href="https://github.com/Stampede10343">Stampede10343&lt;/a> and &lt;a href="https://github.com/vitorsemeano">vitorsemeano&lt;/a> over the course of several months.
&lt;a href="https://github.com/Maxr1998">Maxr1998&lt;/a> valiantly ported the Cordova portions to Kotlin (and a bit of Java) which means Android developers will feel right at home with the new codebase!&lt;/p>
&lt;h3 id="migration">Migration&lt;/h3>
&lt;p>The new release will be a drop-in replacement for the deprecated Cordova client, meaning you can just update from GitHub, Google Play, or Amazon App Store as you would have previously.
One minor issue is that you&amp;rsquo;ll have to add your server and credentials again since we couldn&amp;rsquo;t pull the information from Cordova.
Local user settings such as the theme will also be reset after the update.
Azure has also been updated so the releases will be automatically built, and Weblate now points to the new codebase.
Older versions will remain on &lt;a href="https://repo.jellyfin.org">our repository&lt;/a> for the time being but don&amp;rsquo;t expect them to stay forever, so if you have some reason to stash the older APKs download them soon!&lt;/p>
&lt;blockquote>
&lt;p>Please note that this client has a new set of translations, so if you speak more than one language head on over to Weblate to help out the new client!&lt;/p>
&lt;/blockquote>
&lt;h3 id="exoplayer">ExoPlayer&lt;/h3>
&lt;p>The key feature for this release is ExoPlayer, so we&amp;rsquo;ve reserved a whole section for news regarding the player and its functionality.
It&amp;rsquo;s currently disabled by default since there may be small issues, but it works quite well in our experience.
The main features missing at the moment are bitrate limiting and SyncPlay, but they should get added eventually.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>There is a new section in the user settings for the native client from which you can enable ExoPlayer, among other options.
A toggle for the notification dismissal was also added for customization.
Of course, using ExoPlayer means support for more codecs during video playback as well!
H265 should be working without transcodes, and several other problematic codecs are now much less troublesome with the new update.&lt;/p>
&lt;blockquote>
&lt;p>Note that the included device profile still needs some tweaking to actually mark every codec that the phone supports as supported to the server. You can follow the progress on this at &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-android/issues/28">jellyfin/jellyfin-android#28&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;/blockquote>
&lt;h3 id="future">Future&lt;/h3>
&lt;p>The goal is to use a mobile-first interface for ExoPlayer so we can focus more on desktop for the normal web player.
Bigger, easier clickable buttons and double tap to seek are some of the changes setting the new interface apart from the HTML5 video player.
As usual, since this is a volunteer project we don&amp;rsquo;t actually have set milestones, so if you want something done, the quickest method is to add it yourself!
Head over to &lt;a href="https://matrix.to/#/+jellyfin:matrix.org">Matrix&lt;/a> or Freenode and get in touch with the Android developers if you&amp;rsquo;d like to talk about adding a new feature.
Our &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-android">GitHub&lt;/a> is also an excellent place to discuss long term changes for the new client now that a more modern build process is in place.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Client Spotlight: Videotape</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/client-videotape/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/client-videotape/</guid><description>&lt;p>Videotape is a free lightweight video player for both Windows 10 &amp;amp; Xbox. Their new 3.0 version now supports Jellyfin!&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Videotape is a native UWP application with a strong focus on design and usability.&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Direct play almost all files, both from Jellyfin and other local files&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Overlay and always on top modes&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Adjustable playback speed&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;p>Download it now from the Microsoft store!&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a class="NoLinkLook" href="//www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9NLVH2LL4P1Z?cid=storebadge&amp;ocid=badge">&lt;img src="https://jellyfin.org/images/store-icons/microsoft.svg" alt="View VideoTape in the Microsoft Store" style="width: 142px; height: 52px;"/>&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Here&amp;rsquo;s what Jellyfin looks like on Windows, with Videotape 3.&lt;/p>
&lt;img src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/videotape/detailview.png" name="Detail View on Windows 10" />
&lt;p>Here&amp;rsquo;s what it looks like on the Xbox One.&lt;/p>
&lt;img src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/videotape/detailxbox.png" name="Detail View on Xbox One" />
&lt;blockquote>
&lt;p>Client Spotlight&lt;/p>
&lt;p>This blog series aims to highlight some of the amazing projects created by our community.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Feel free to send a message if you can think of a project that could use more love!&lt;/p>
&lt;/blockquote></description></item><item><title>Jellyfin Release - v10.6.0</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-10-6-0/</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2020 11:42:00 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-10-6-0/</guid><description>&lt;p>After months of work, here comes another behemoth of a release, this time with over 30 major improvements and tons of fixes.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://jellyfin.org/downloads/" class="button button__accent">Download Jellyfin 10.6.0&lt;/a> &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases/tag/v10.6.0" class="button hero__button">Read the full release notes&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>At &lt;strong>more than 500 pull requests&lt;/strong> merged between the server and the web client, Jellyfin 10.6.0 brings an incredible number of new features, improvements and bug fixes. It&amp;rsquo;s a huge release and we have a lot to cover, so let&amp;rsquo;s get to it!&lt;/p>
&lt;h1 id="syncplay">SyncPlay&lt;/h1>
&lt;p>Other services have recently launched various ways to view your content together with friends. With the current global situation, it makes a lot of sense, and Jellyfin isn&amp;rsquo;t lagging behind.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>We&amp;rsquo;re proud to announce Jellyfin 10.6&amp;rsquo;s headline feature: &lt;strong>SyncPlay&lt;/strong>.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>SyncPlay allows you to create rooms that other users or clients can join in order to share a common viewing experience. There is no limit on the number of users in a room and you are free to join the same room with the same user from multiple clients as well.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Thanks to first-time contributor &lt;a href="https://github.com/OancaAndrei">OancaAndrei&lt;/a>, who submitted pull requests to both the server and the web client (&lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/pull/2733">jf#2733&lt;/a>, &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/pull/1011">jf-web#1011&lt;/a>) in order to lay out the foundations for this, you can now watch movies together with friends and family, from the comfort of your respective homes.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The feature is expected to be improved in future versions of Jellyfin, but has already been used by multiple users during the development cycle, with a delay between clients of only a couple of milliseconds.&lt;/p>
&lt;h1 id="migration-to-entity-framework-core">Migration to Entity Framework Core&lt;/h1>
&lt;p>It&amp;rsquo;s been on our plate for a while, but thanks to new team member &lt;a href="https://github.com/barronpm">barronpm&lt;/a>, we can finally say that the rewrite of our database model is progressing at a steady pace!&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Previously, Jellyfin used a combination of SQLite databases (yes, multiple ones), XML files and C# spaghetti to perform database operations. Information was split in multiple places, sometimes even duplicated and generally filtered in C# instead of using the database engine&amp;rsquo;s faster processing.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Over the course of this cycle, &lt;a href="https://github.com/barronpm">barronpm&lt;/a> has been deciphering and untangling this mess, and managed to successfully migrate the ActivityDB (&lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/pull/2970">jf#2970&lt;/a>) and the UserDB (&lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/pull/3148">jf3148&lt;/a>) to EF Core.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>While there is still a ways to go, EF Core should bring faster database queries, support for multiple database engines, cleaner code, and significantly reduced memory usage. Currently, there is still a bridge to make the link between the new EF Core databases and the existing code, which will be cleaned up down the line.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Part of the improved memory usage is due to our current inherited custom ORM caching everything in memory to make up for its slowness. For large databases, this could result in hundreds of megabytes of memory lost to caching. With EF Core, however, we leave the heavy lifting to the database engine, leading to better response times and less memory usage overall.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Your databases will be automatically migrated when you first launch Jellyfin 10.6. While the migration process has been well tested over the past few months, issues may arise during the migration process. To prevent any data loss, please &lt;strong>backup your existing data files&lt;/strong> before starting the migration process.&lt;/p>
&lt;h1 id="a-more-modern-web-client">A more modern web client&lt;/h1>
&lt;p>Our web client has long suffered of a massive amount of technical debt, due to the project we forked from only providing minified versions of the source and using antiquated web technologies. Some of these old technologies have, until recently, prevented us from being able to use modern JavaScript tooling, which would allow us to significantly clean the source.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Thankfully, this is now behind us, as &lt;a href="https://github.com/MrTimscampi">MrTimscampi&lt;/a> worked on improving the way we build the web client by using Gulp to perform various tasks necessary for building our current code structure with modern tools. (&lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/pull/862">jf-web#862&lt;/a>). This allows us to use bleeding edge JavaScript thanks to Babel, but also simplifies greatly our support for legacy clients (Most notably early WebOS and Tizen versions).&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Among the benefits of this move to Gulp for building the client, we have started moving away from &lt;a href="https://requirejs.org/">RequireJS&lt;/a> and towards using standard &lt;a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Modules">EcmaScript Modules&lt;/a>, thanks to &lt;a href="https://github.com/Camc314">Camc314&lt;/a>, &lt;a href="https://github.com/cromefire/">cromefire&lt;/a>, &lt;a href="https://github.com/delgan">Delgan&lt;/a>, &lt;a href="https://github.com/dkanada/">dkanada&lt;/a>, &lt;a href="https://github.com/grafixeyehero/">grafixeyehero&lt;/a>, &lt;a href="https://github.com/MrTimscampi">MrTimscampi&lt;/a>, and &lt;a href="https://github.com/sarab97/">sarab97&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>This massive change, once it is complete, will allow us to simplify the web client build process, which will in turn allow us to start our migration to &lt;a href="https://vuejs.org/">Vue&lt;/a> and significantly clean up our code. This should also bring some noticeable performance improvements to the web client down the line, as we tackle technical debt and remove deprecated practices and libraries from the code.&lt;/p>
&lt;h1 id="server-performance-bug-fixes-and-better-networking">Server performance, bug fixes and better networking&lt;/h1>
&lt;p>Our resident C# performance wizard, &lt;a href="https://github.com/Bond-009">Bond-009&lt;/a> continues his quest to rid the server source of warnings and generally improve server performance, fixing multiple bugs in the process.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/mark-monteiro">mark-monteiro&lt;/a> worked on multiple fixes for 10.6, including reworking the network settings accessible through the administration dashboard (&lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/pull/2774">jf#2774&lt;/a>, &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/pull/1140">jf-web#1140&lt;/a>).&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Team member &lt;a href="https://github.com/nyanmisaka">nyanmisaka&lt;/a>, with some help from &lt;a href="https://github.com/artiume/">artiume&lt;/a>, brings a number of improvements to transcoding (&lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/pull/2809">jf#2809&lt;/a>, &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/pull/1046">jf-web#1046&lt;/a>, &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/pull/2821">jf#2821&lt;/a>, &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/pull/2715">jf#2715&lt;/a>), with format toggles, options for toggling transcoding for HEVC and 10-bit VP9 videos off for older GPUs, providing support for the VP8/VP9 QSV and NVDEC decoders in FFmpeg 4.3, better support for UTF-16 subtitles and a host of other improvements.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Further changes to the server include fixes for collection metadata issues (&lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/pull/3117">jf#3117&lt;/a>), improvements to the metadata providers (&lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/pull/3071">jf#3071&lt;/a>, &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/pull/3056">jf#3056&lt;/a>, &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/pull/3289">jf#3289&lt;/a>), and more core providers moved to plugins (&lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/pull/3208">jf#3208&lt;/a>).&lt;/p>
&lt;h1 id="more-web-client-improvements">More web client improvements&lt;/h1>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/itegulov">Itegulov&lt;/a> and &lt;a href="https://github.com/dkanada/">dkanada&lt;/a> have improved support for ebooks by adding an EPUB reader based on &lt;a href="https://github.com/futurepress/epub.js/">epub.js&lt;/a> (&lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/pull/1263">jf-web#1263&lt;/a>). Reader support for more formats is in progress for future versions, including CBZ/CBR and PDF.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>As we used the new 10.5 details screen over the last few months, we noticed some improvements we could make to the experience. Team member &lt;a href="https://github.com/MrTimscampi">MrTimscampi&lt;/a>, along with input from the rest of the web team and some of our users, did a second pass on that screen (&lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/pull/949">jf-web#949&lt;/a>, &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/pull/1206">jf-web#1206&lt;/a>), tightening the design and cleaning some visual issues along the way. &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/pull/1406">Delgan&lt;/a> put in the final touches to the page by avoiding a jump in the content when rendering the track selectors on the page (&lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/pull/1406">jf-web#1406&lt;/a>)&lt;/p>
&lt;div class="juxtapose">
&lt;img data-label="10.5.5" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/jellyfin-10-6-0/details-10-5.png" name="" />
&lt;img data-label="10.6.0" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/jellyfin-10-6-0/details-10-6.png" name="" />
&lt;/div>
&lt;p>Team member &lt;a href="https://github.com/ferferga">ferferga&lt;/a> and contributor &lt;a href="https://github.com/samuel9554">samuel9554&lt;/a> have been working on redesigning our music experience. For 10.6, they overhauled our mobile music player interface and made significant changes to the mini player and the remote player UI (&lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/pull/1056">jf-web#1056&lt;/a>, &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/pull/1430">jf-web#1430&lt;/a>).&lt;/p>
&lt;div class="juxtapose">
&lt;img data-label="10.5.5" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/jellyfin-10-6-0/player-10-5.png" name="" />
&lt;img data-label="10.6.0" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/jellyfin-10-6-0/player-10-6.png" name="" />
&lt;/div>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/MrTimscampi">MrTimscampi&lt;/a> also reworked the image loading system (&lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/pull/1065">jf-web#1065&lt;/a>), fixing some visual issues and improving memory usage by unloading out of view images. Along with this improvement, &lt;a href="https://github.com/ferferga">ferferga&lt;/a>, &lt;a href="https://github.com/GranPC">GranPC&lt;/a>, &lt;a href="https://github.com/JustAMan">JustAMan&lt;/a> and &lt;a href="https://github.com/Bond-009">Bond-009&lt;/a> have implemented &lt;a href="https://blurha.sh/">Blurhash&lt;/a> placeholder support on both the server and the web client, which brings further visual refinement to the user interface.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/JustAMan">JustAMan&lt;/a> went back over our new SSA/ASS subtitle rendering system and significantly improved performance for subtitles with heavy effects (&lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/pull/1144">jf-web#1144&lt;/a>, &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/pull/1095">jf-web#1095&lt;/a>, &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/pull/1048">jf-web#1048&lt;/a>, &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/pull/1005">jf-web#1005&lt;/a>). While we still consider the feature experimental, it should now be able to render most subtitles accurately and with correct performance.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Other improvements to the web client include a rewritten image viewer (&lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/pull/967">jf-web#967&lt;/a>), a configuration option for the number of items per page in libraries (&lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/pull/983">jf-web#983&lt;/a>), a toggle for the nightly version of the Chromecast client (&lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/pull/1242">jf-web#1242&lt;/a>), and support for multiple plugin repositories (&lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/pull/1393">jf-web#1393&lt;/a>, &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/pull/3244">jf#3244&lt;/a>).&lt;/p>
&lt;h1 id="patreons-and-github-sponsors">Patreons and Github Sponsors&lt;/h1>
&lt;p>With the increased amount of activity on the project, we would like to give a signal boost to some ways to support the people working daily on Jellyfin.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>We want to stress that, while some of our contributors individually accept financial donations, Jellyfin and its features will &lt;strong>never&lt;/strong> be hidden behind a paywall. Supporting the developers financially is entirely voluntary and won&amp;rsquo;t give you any exclusive access to features or support, nor will it change the priority of your feature requests or issues.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/anthonylavado">anthonylavado&lt;/a>, our wonderful PR and developer relation person, accepts donations through &lt;a href="https://github.com/sponsors/anthonylavado">Github Sponsors&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/barronpm">barronpm&lt;/a>, whose main work is on the server portion of Jellyfin and who has been spearheading the migration to EF Core has recently opened &lt;a href="https://www.patreon.com/barronpm">a Patreon page&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/dkanada/">dkanada&lt;/a>, whose work spreads from server to web client, accepts donations through &lt;a href="https://github.com/sponsors/dkanada">Github Sponsors&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/ferferga">ferferga&lt;/a>, web client contributor, localization aficionado and all-around awesome person accepts donations through &lt;a href="https://github.com/sponsors/ferferga">Github Sponsors&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/nielsvanvelzen">nielsvanvelzen&lt;/a>, who has been working hard on the Android TV client, can be supported on &lt;a href="https://github.com/sponsors/nielsvanvelzen">Github Sponsors&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/MrTimscampi">MrTimscampi&lt;/a>, whose main work has been cleaning up and modernizing the web client, also recently opened &lt;a href="https://www.patreon.com/mrtimscampi">a Patreon page&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/oddstr13">oddstr13&lt;/a>, one of the developers of Jellyfin for Kodi also accepts donations on &lt;a href="https://github.com/sponsors/oddstr13">Github Sponsors&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://github.com/thornbill">thornbill&lt;/a> who handles the iOS and Android clients, and also contributes to the Android TV client, can be supported on &lt;a href="https://github.com/sponsors/thornbill">Github Sponsors&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;h1 id="contributors">Contributors&lt;/h1>
&lt;p>As an final note, we would like to thank all the contributors who worked on making Jellyfin 10.6 a reality:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/adavier/">adavier&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/aled/">aled&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/alset333/">alset333&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/anthonylavado/">anthonylavado&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Artiume/">Artiume&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/balu92/">balu92&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/BaronGreenback/">BaronGreenback&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/barronpm/">barronpm&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/bendardenne/">bendardenne&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Bond-009">Bond-009&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Brissot/">Brissot&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Camc314/">Camc314&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/ConfusedPolarBear/">ConfusedPolarBear&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/crobibero/">crobibero&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/cromefire/">cromefire&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/cvium/">cvium&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/dafo90/">dafo90&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/danieladov/">danieladov&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Delgan/">Delgan&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/dkanada/">dkanada&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/dmitrylyzo/">dmitrylyzo&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/dtparr/">dtparr&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/EraYaN/">EraYaN&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/ferferga/">ferferga&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/fhriley/">fhriley&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/grafixeyehero/">grafixeyehero&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/GranPC/">GranPC&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/h1nk/">h1nk&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/hauntingEcho/">hauntingEcho&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/itegulov/">itegulov&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/iwalton3/">iwalton3&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/jairbubbles/">jairbubbles&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/joshuaboniface/">joshuaboniface&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/JustAMan/">JustAMan&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/kesslern/">kesslern&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/KGT1/">KGT1&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/KristupasSavickas/">KristupasSavickas&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/KucharczykL/">KucharczykL&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/lfoust/">lfoust&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/lyonzy/">lyonzy&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/macr/">macr&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/mark-monteiro">mark-monteiro&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/masterkoppa/">masterkoppa&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/mijofa/">mijofa&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/MrTimscampi/">MrTimscampi&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Nazar78/">Nazar78&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/neilsb/">neilsb&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Nickbert7/">Nickbert7&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/nielsvanvelzen/">nielsvanvelzen&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/nyanmisaka/">nyanmisaka&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/OancaAndrei/">OancaAndrei&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/oddstr13">oddstr13&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/ox0spy/">ox0spy&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Polpetta/">Polpetta&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/PrplHaz4/">PrplHaz4&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/puschie286/">puschie286&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/pusta/">pusta&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/randrey/">randrey&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/redSpoutnik/">redSpoutnik&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/rexbron/">rexbron&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/rigtorp/">rigtorp&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/rotvel/">rotvel&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/samuel9554/">samuel9554&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/sarab97/">sarab97&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Shawmon/">Shawmon&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/shayaantx/">shayaantx&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/sparky8251/">sparky8251&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Stampede10343/">Stampede10343&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/telans/">telans&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/ThibaultNocchi/">ThibaultNocchi&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/thornbill/">thornbill&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/twinkybot/">twinkybot&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Ullmie02/">Ullmie02&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/viaregio/">viaregio&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/villagra/">villagra&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/whooo/">whooo&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/xumix/">xumix&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/YouKnowBlom/">YouKnowBlom&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/ZadenRB/">ZadenRB&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul></description></item><item><title>Plugin Repositories</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/plugin-updates/</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/plugin-updates/</guid><description>&lt;p>There have been several changes to plugins for the new release.
Here&amp;rsquo;s a quick post going over the biggest updates for developers and users alike.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The most noticable change for everyone is that third party plugin repositories are now available!
You can access the current list at Dashboard -&amp;gt; Plugins -&amp;gt; Repositories, and items can be added or removed as desired.
Even the official repository can be removed if you&amp;rsquo;d prefer to avoid external calls to our server.&lt;/p>
&lt;h1 id="manifest">Manifest&lt;/h1>
&lt;p>For developers, the only required change is a JSON manifest at &lt;em>any&lt;/em> location with versions that point to binary releases at &lt;em>any&lt;/em> location.
We don&amp;rsquo;t require any specific method for hosting these files, as that would go against the ideals of the project.
The official repository uses nginx for the manifest and GitHub Releases for the binaries, but you could potentially host the manifest on GitHub as well.
Here&amp;rsquo;s an example manifest with all the properties.
Please note that the GUID must be unique (both in the manifest and the plugin itself) if you want to avoid conflicts with other plugins.&lt;/p>
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span> &lt;span style="color:#f92672">&amp;#34;guid&amp;#34;&lt;/span>: &lt;span style="color:#e6db74">&amp;#34;a4df60c5-6ab4-412a-8f79-2cab93fb2bc5&amp;#34;&lt;/span>,
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&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span> &lt;span style="color:#f92672">&amp;#34;targetAbi&amp;#34;&lt;/span>: &lt;span style="color:#e6db74">&amp;#34;10.6.0.0&amp;#34;&lt;/span>,
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span> &lt;span style="color:#f92672">&amp;#34;sourceUrl&amp;#34;&lt;/span>: &lt;span style="color:#e6db74">&amp;#34;https://repo.jellyfin.org/releases/other/whats-this-plugin.zip.gif&amp;#34;&lt;/span>,
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span> &lt;span style="color:#f92672">&amp;#34;timestamp&amp;#34;&lt;/span>: &lt;span style="color:#e6db74">&amp;#34;2020-03-27 06:02:58&amp;#34;&lt;/span>,
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span> &lt;span style="color:#f92672">&amp;#34;version&amp;#34;&lt;/span>: &lt;span style="color:#e6db74">&amp;#34;1.0.3.0&amp;#34;&lt;/span>
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span> }
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span> ]
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span> }
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>]
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;/code>&lt;/pre>&lt;/div>&lt;p>The official repository manifest for &lt;a href="https://repo.jellyfin.org/releases/plugin/manifest-stable.json">stable plugins&lt;/a> can be used for more examples.
You can also find the &lt;a href="https://repo.jellyfin.org/releases/plugin/manifest.json">deprecated manifest&lt;/a> on the same domain for the old format.
However, all new plugin updates (on the official repository) will go to the new manifest, so older verions of Jellyfin won&amp;rsquo;t receive plugin updates.
Plugins do have &lt;a href="https://jellyfin.org/docs/plugin-api/MediaBrowser.Model.Updates.html">official documentation&lt;/a> on our DocFX instance.
Please be aware that our documentation is still a work in progress, since a lot of the C# code still has very little information for tools like this.
Things are improving thanks to the diligent server team though, who have been slowly adding information throughout the codebase.&lt;/p>
&lt;h1 id="tools">Tools&lt;/h1>
&lt;p>One excellent tool that might help with repository management is &lt;a href="https://github.com/oddstr13/jellyfin-plugin-repository-manager">jellyfin-plugin-repository-manager&lt;/a> by Oddstr13, a frequent contributor.
He did mention that his tool works much better with nginx than GitHub releases, but feel free to check it out!
Another useful tool might be the &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-build">jellyfin-build&lt;/a> repository, which used to be the method used for updates on the official repository.
We&amp;rsquo;ll probably be migrating to the repository manager linked above though, since most of the other build systems have moved to Azure.&lt;/p>
&lt;h1 id="code">Code&lt;/h1>
&lt;p>There are always a few changes to the ABI you might want to know about if you maintain a plugin.
I&amp;rsquo;ll include the most important ones for 10.6.0 here to hopefully reduce any issues with the update.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The first batch comes from the HTML for settings on the web client, which has been going through an overhaul lately.
One of the long term goals we have is deprecating jQuery entirely, since it&amp;rsquo;s not 2008 anymore and better tools have come along.
That does mean plugin pages will have to migrate off it at some point, but we haven&amp;rsquo;t made the full transition yet, don&amp;rsquo;t worry.
Although jQuery will stick around a bit longer, we did remove two custom scripts in the web source that&amp;hellip;extended the functionality a bit.
There was one for &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/blob/release-10.5.z/src/legacy/selectmenu.js">select menus&lt;/a> and yet another for &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/blob/release-10.5.z/src/legacy/fnchecked.js">checkbox&lt;/a> elements.
I can only assume the goal was compatibility with older browsers or clients at the time, but we&amp;rsquo;ve been pushing extremely hard to modernize the web client.
That means avoiding abandoned libraries, ancient JavaScript practices, and definitely custom extensions for dependencies we don&amp;rsquo;t even want in the code.
The easiest fix for this change is to migrate from jQuery to vanilla JavaScript for checkboxes and select menus in the HTML source.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>There were also several changes to the C# ABI that might affect your plugin.
The most troublesome is probably the ILogger tweaks, which were made to improve the server logs by appending the class name to every line.
You&amp;rsquo;ll also find quite a few changes caused by the new database migration (Jellyfin.Data is the new namespace for these objects) and a few unrelated items.&lt;/p>
&lt;div class="highlight">&lt;pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;">&lt;code class="language-sh" data-lang="sh">&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>IExternalID.Name -&amp;gt; IExternalID.ProviderName
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>MediaBrowser.Controller.Entities.User -&amp;gt; Jellyfin.Data.Entities.User
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>MetadataProviders -&amp;gt; MetadataProvider
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>CompressionMethod -&amp;gt; CompressionMethods
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>RequestContentBytes &lt;span style="color:#f92672">=&lt;/span> request -&amp;gt; RequestContent &lt;span style="color:#f92672">=&lt;/span> Encoding.UTF8.GetString&lt;span style="color:#f92672">(&lt;/span>request&lt;span style="color:#f92672">)&lt;/span>
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>User.Name -&amp;gt; User.Username
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>item.GetDisplayExtras&lt;span style="color:#f92672">()&lt;/span> -&amp;gt; item.GetExtras&lt;span style="color:#f92672">(&lt;/span>BaseItem.DisplayExtraTypes&lt;span style="color:#f92672">)&lt;/span>
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;span style="display:flex;">&lt;span>user.RootFolder -&amp;gt; libraryManager.GetUserRootFolder&lt;span style="color:#f92672">()&lt;/span>
&lt;/span>&lt;/span>&lt;/code>&lt;/pre>&lt;/div>&lt;h1 id="future">Future&lt;/h1>
&lt;p>Third party repositories are the first step in a larger plan to vastly increase plugin usage within the codebase.
They will allow anyone to maintain their own plugin and push updates as quickly as they want, without having to deal with a centralized system.
It also gives users the power to reduce their reliance on an internet connection by allowing all repositories to be removed at will.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>We understand some of these changes might be annoying to update within your plugin, but hopefully that will also see an improvement very soon.
The next goal (now that more than one repository can be used at the same time) will be an unstable repository for plugins.
This will fix the long-standing request for better plugin support on the unstable version, which has been a blocker for many users.
It will also have the side effect of requiring an unstable NuGet repository for the C# ABI, thus helping third party plugin developers test their plugins against any changes to the ABI before a server update has landed.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>If you develop a plugin (or client) and would like to be included in our mailing list for third party developers, please contact us through Matrix or send an email to get the details.
The main goal here is excellent support for plugins and unofficial clients, so if you have any suggestions definitely contact us on one of our public forums.
Hopefully, the C# ABI will stabilize over time and huge changes will become more infrequent so we can focus on making plugins as great as possible!&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Packaging Updates for 10.6.0</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/packaging-updates/</link><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2020 04:16:09 -0400</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/packaging-updates/</guid><description>&lt;p>Packaging and building binaries for releases and testing has long been an issue for us. From fighting with duct-tape-and-coat-hanger scripts, to testing breaking changes, to massaging official releases, how we were doing things for the last year-and-a-half needed some improvements.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Luckily, today they are all completed. In this post, I&amp;rsquo;ll detail the changes as well as what the entail for our users.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>For a brief TL;DR: for most users of our stable releases, not much will change, and you will upgrade to 10.6.0 as you always have. For anyone using nightlies for testing, advanced setups, or who are just curious - read on!&lt;/p>
&lt;h3 id="split-builds">Split Builds&lt;/h3>
&lt;p>The first main component of the packaging changes is split builds. Previously, we were relying on some serious hackery in order to build both the Web UI (&lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web">https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web&lt;/a>) and Server (&lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin">https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin&lt;/a>) and combine them into one package. Ultimately, with the sheer number of changes in both repositories and speed at which updates happen, along with our eventual goal to decouple the two from each other for releases, this sort of solution had reached its limits. This is perhaps best exemplified by the mostly-unseen work I had to do to get 10.5.4 and 10.5.5 to build at all.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>With split packages, the two repositories are now built completely independently for all platforms. If you build the &lt;code>jellyfin-web&lt;/code> repository, you get out a Docker image, &lt;code>.deb&lt;/code> packages, &lt;code>.rpm&lt;/code> packages, or a &lt;code>.tar.gz&lt;/code> archive that just contains the Web UI. Similarly, if you build the &lt;code>jellyfin&lt;/code> repository, you get out the various Docker, &lt;code>.deb&lt;/code>, &lt;code>.rpm&lt;/code>, &lt;code>.tar.gz&lt;/code>, and &lt;code>.zip&lt;/code> archives you know and love.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The main difference is the naming - the &lt;code>jellyfin-web&lt;/code> repository binaries are named, well, &lt;code>jellyfin-web&lt;/code>, and the &lt;code>jellyfin&lt;/code> repository binaries are named &lt;code>jellyfin-server&lt;/code>. So, to use Debian as an example, where there was once &lt;code>jellyfin&lt;/code>, there is now &lt;code>jellyfin-web&lt;/code> and &lt;code>jellyfin-server&lt;/code>. But don&amp;rsquo;t worry, &lt;code>jellyfin&lt;/code> is not gone - we&amp;rsquo;ll get to that shortly.&lt;/p>
&lt;h3 id="azure-pipelines-builds">Azure Pipelines builds&lt;/h3>
&lt;p>Our previous build infrastructure consisted of a veritable spaghetti factory of Bash, Python, and Docker scripts that were executed on our build server, a DigitalOcean droplet. For the most part, it worked, but the process was very fragile, opaque (I&amp;rsquo;m not even sure &lt;em>I&lt;/em> understand how it all worked all the time, and I wrote it all!), and resource-intensive.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>As we&amp;rsquo;ve moved more and more functions to Azure for testing, verification, linting, etc. in the various repositories, it became obvious that Azure Pipelines had a lot of flexibility, and would be able to perform nearly all of our build steps for us. This eliminated at least 2/3 of the build server, and gives us another cool option - unstable builds, which I&amp;rsquo;ll touch on shortly.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The Azure Pipelines build handles the actual building of all the archives for both repositories mentioned in the previous section, uploads the binary artifacts to the build server, and then kicks off a single script to handle the last 1/3 of the process, making things much clearer, more obvious, and with results visible to everyone in our Azure project page.&lt;/p>
&lt;h3 id="metapackages-and-metaimages">Metapackages and Metaimages&lt;/h3>
&lt;p>I previously mentioned that the package which used to be called &lt;code>jellyfin&lt;/code> is now called &lt;code>jellyfin-server&lt;/code>, and does not contain the Web UI. So, how do you get it all? And how will upgrades be seamless? The answer is metapackages, metaarchives, and metaimages! These new components can be found in &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-metapackages">this repository page&lt;/a>, specifically the Docker images which will now be the source of truth for those configurations. I&amp;rsquo;ll outline how each platform behaves below.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>For Docker, the Azure pipelines split builds create docker images called &lt;code>jellyfin/jellyfin-server&lt;/code> and &lt;code>jellyfin/jellyfin-web&lt;/code>. On their own they&amp;rsquo;re not too useful, but exist to enable the next step. When an Azure build finishes and has uploaded these images, a script is kicked off on our build server which builds the &lt;code>jellyfin/jellyfin&lt;/code> &amp;ldquo;metaimage&amp;rdquo;, which will take the two separate images, and combine them into a single Docker image along with all the components to run them, like &lt;code>jellyfin-ffmpeg&lt;/code>, then push the resulting image. The end result is a single image, &lt;code>jellyfin/jellyfin&lt;/code>, like there has always been, but the builds are done independently rather than relying on &lt;code>git clone&lt;/code>/archive downloads inside the build steps and other shenanigans.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>For Debian and Ubuntu, the Azure pipelines split builds create separate &lt;code>.deb&lt;/code> packages for each component. Unlike Docker, these are fully usable on their own, and installing Jellyfin in 10.6.0+ can be done with &lt;code>apt install jellyfin-server jellyfin-web&lt;/code> if one wishes. The metapackage is a separate &lt;code>.deb&lt;/code>, called &lt;code>jellyfin&lt;/code>, who&amp;rsquo;s only function is to have dependencies on these two component packages. Thus, installing &lt;code>jellyfin&lt;/code> will automatically install &lt;code>jellyfin-server&lt;/code> and &lt;code>jellyfin-web&lt;/code>, along with the other required dependencies from each. This is how upgrades will be seamless from previous versions: upgrading from the old &lt;code>jellyfin&lt;/code> to the new &lt;code>jellyfin&lt;/code> will automatically pull in the two new subpackages and remove the old one, with no interruptions.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>For Fedora and CentOS, the setup is similar to Debian/Ubuntu, with the only difference being the metapackage is a component of the &lt;code>jellyfin-server&lt;/code> repository and is thus only rebuilt when that repository is. However, since we do not provide a &amp;ldquo;proper&amp;rdquo; repository for these packages like we do for Debian/Ubuntu, the impact should be quite low, and will be nonexistent for stable releases.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>For Windows installers and MacOS &lt;code>.app&lt;/code> packages, the process remains a little more complicated and a WIP, but those will continue to work on release.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>For the remaining platforms, including the archive packages for Windows, MacOS, Linux, and .NET portable, the process takes the two separate &lt;code>.tar.gz&lt;/code> / &lt;code>.zip&lt;/code> archives from the build process, and combines them into a single &lt;code>jellyfin&lt;/code> archive of the same type, which puts the two component parts in their respective places. Thus, like all the others mentioned above, the change should be invisible to users by downloading the &amp;ldquo;combined&amp;rdquo; version of the archives.&lt;/p>
&lt;h3 id="unstable-builds">Unstable builds&lt;/h3>
&lt;p>One of the cool things that this new setup enables is &amp;ldquo;unstable&amp;rdquo; builds. For quite a while now, we&amp;rsquo;ve been providing (when not broken) &amp;ldquo;nightly&amp;rdquo; builds, which as their name implies are build every night if there were merged PRs from the previous day. However, these had a number of drawbacks. First, they broke a lot; second, on a busy day it would be possible for there to be up to a dozen separate PRs that made up the nightly changeset; third, they could often be totally messed up in terms of contents, for instance if the unsplit build grabbed the wrong version of Web.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>The new split builds, Azure builds, and metapackages/metaimages instead let us do something far superior: build &amp;ldquo;unstable&amp;rdquo; releases for &lt;em>every merged PR&lt;/em>. We don&amp;rsquo;t have to worry about resource usage (Azure provides this), disk space, or other aspects of the build process. We can know immediately if something breaks. And most importantly, it lets anyone test our master branch in a very clear way, knowing &lt;em>exactly&lt;/em> what version of the repository you are using and what the last merged PR was if something goes wrong.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Unstable builds are versioned based on the Azure build ID, which is in the format &amp;ldquo;[date].[id]&amp;rdquo;, for example &amp;ldquo;20200620.12&amp;rdquo; for the 12th build on June 20th 2020. Thus this version string will tell you exactly which Azure build generated the binary, and thus which PR in which repository triggered it. For those binaries with changelogs (&lt;code>.deb&lt;/code> and &lt;code>.rpm&lt;/code> packages only for now), the changelog data includes the PR ID explicitly as well.&lt;/p>
&lt;h3 id="using-unstable-builds">Using Unstable builds&lt;/h3>
&lt;p>Using unstable builds is a bit different than the previous nightlies. For those, the packages/images were named &lt;code>jellyfin-nightly&lt;/code> or &lt;code>jellyfin:nightly&lt;/code> (for Docker) and were stored in the same repositories. This has now changed somewhat, and I&amp;rsquo;ll detail the changes to each platform below. Note that, at least until 10.6.0 is released, we will continue to build &lt;code>nightly&lt;/code> images as we always have, after which they will be turned off in favour of &lt;code>unstable&lt;/code> builds exclusively, so if you like to live on the bleeding edge, please review this section in detail and make the required changes as soon as you can.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>For Docker, the new unstable builds are available with the &lt;code>unstable&lt;/code> tag, e.g. &lt;code>jellyfin/jellyfin:unstable&lt;/code>, or at a specific version tag, for instance &lt;code>jellyfin/jellyfin:20200620.12-unstable&lt;/code>. Following the main &lt;code>unstable&lt;/code> tag will ensure you can always grab the latest unstable build, while the versioned tags allow you to pull specific builds for testing or debugging.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>For Debian and Ubuntu, where the unstable images are stored has changed. As mentioned, previously they were part of the &lt;code>main&lt;/code> section of the repository with the alternate name &lt;code>jellyfin-nightly&lt;/code>, and this is no longer the case for unstable. Instead, a separate repository &amp;ldquo;component&amp;rdquo; called &lt;code>unstable&lt;/code> has been created to house the unstable builds, and they are not renamed. To enable this extra component, add a line to your &lt;code>/etc/apt/sources.list.d/jellyfin.list&lt;/code> like the following, which is identical to the existing line except with &lt;code>main&lt;/code> replaced by &lt;code>unstable&lt;/code>: &lt;code>deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.jellyfin.org/debian buster unstable&lt;/code>. Because of how the versioning works, once you enable this additional source, you will always get the &lt;code>unstable&lt;/code> packages with their &amp;ldquo;very high&amp;rdquo; version numbers over the stable releases, so to disable unstable builds, you must remove this extra line, run &lt;code>apt update&lt;/code>, remove the old package(s), then install the stable version.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>For all other releases, since the source was always files downloaded from &lt;a href="https://repo.jellyfin.org/releases">our repository site&lt;/a>, not much will change - instead of downloading files from the &lt;code>nightly/&lt;/code> folder of your platform, download from the &lt;code>unstable/&lt;/code> folder. Note that these folders will, because of the split builds, contain separate subfolders for &lt;code>server&lt;/code>, &lt;code>web&lt;/code>, and &lt;code>combined&lt;/code>; generally you will want &lt;code>combined&lt;/code>. You can then use these archives as you always have.&lt;/p>
&lt;h3 id="conclusions">Conclusions&lt;/h3>
&lt;p>Thank you for reading this description of our build changes. We continue to test these extensively to work out any bugs, but if you have questions or feedback, please drop us a message on Matrix!&lt;/p>
&lt;p>We hope to see you very soon for 10.6.0, and many future releases with this new format!&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Client Spotlight: Infuse for tvOS and iOS</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/client-infuse/</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2020 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/client-infuse/</guid><description>&lt;p>Today, &lt;a href="https://firecore.com">Firecore&lt;/a> has launched &lt;a href="https://firecore.com/infuse">Infuse 6.4&lt;/a> for Apple TV, iPhone, and iPad.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>This release brings official support for Jellyfin, built right in.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>With Infuse, it&amp;rsquo;s easy to connect to with automatic server discovery. Once connected, you can enjoy direct playback (no transcoding required) for almost all formats.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>There are way too many features to list them all, but here&amp;rsquo;s a few.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>With Infuse, you can:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Enjoy hardware decoded H.264 and H.265 video&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Direct play of 4K video with HDR&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Direct play of Dolby Vision (single-layer) and Dolby Atmos&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Playback position sync with Jellyfin, and Trakt&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Sync videos for offline playback&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Adjustable playback speed&lt;/li>
&lt;li>PiP and Split View support on iPadOS&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;p>When you get Infuse Pro:&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>High res audio decoding (Dolby True HD, DTS-HD MA)&lt;/li>
&lt;li>AirPlay and Google Cast support&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Even more format support&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;hr>
&lt;p>&lt;a class="NoLinkLook" href='https://apps.apple.com/app/id1136220934?mt=8'>&lt;img height="77" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/infuse/infuse-6-icon.png"/>&lt;/a> &lt;a style="padding-left: 20px;" class="NoLinkLook" href='https://apps.apple.com/app/id1136220934?mt=8'>&lt;img width="153" alt='Download on the App Store' src='https://jellyfin.org/images/store-icons/app-store.svg'/>&lt;/a>&lt;br/>Infuse is a free download on the &lt;a href="https://apps.apple.com/app/id1136220934?mt=8">App Store&lt;/a>. &lt;br/> Infuse Pro can be purchased separately, or through in-app subscription.&lt;/p>
&lt;hr>
&lt;p>Here&amp;rsquo;s what our demo library looks like on Apple TV with Infuse 6.4.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;em>Click a screenshot for a full 2160p view.&lt;/em>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/infuse/infuse-screenshot-1.png">&lt;img src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/infuse/infuse-screenshot-1-thumb.png" name="Main Screen" />&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/infuse/infuse-screenshot-2.png">&lt;img src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/infuse/infuse-screenshot-2-thumb.png" name="Movie View" />&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/infuse/infuse-screenshot-3.png">&lt;img src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/infuse/infuse-screenshot-3-thumb.png" name="Movie Detail View" />&lt;/a>&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Jellyfin: Now on Xbox One (UPDATED)</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-xbox/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-xbox/</guid><description>&lt;p>Due to long standing issues with this current release of the Xbox client beta, and incompatibility with the latest release of Jellyfin, we&amp;rsquo;ve made the decision to remove it from the store. We hope to return soon, with an updated client. In the meanwhile, please try using the Edge browser, or Kodi with our plug-ins to watch Jellyfin.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;del>Jellyfin is proud to announce our brand new &lt;a href="https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9P2DRTG62QF8">Xbox One client beta&lt;/a>.&lt;/del>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Thanks to some very &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-uwp/graphs/contributors">helpful contributors&lt;/a>, Jellyfin is now available for your Xbox One:&lt;/p>
&lt;!--&lt;a class="NoLinkLook" href="//www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9P2DRTG62QF8?cid=storebadge&amp;ocid=badge">&lt;img src="https://jellyfin.org/images/store-icons/microsoft.svg" alt="View Jellyfin in the Microsoft Store" style="width: 142px; height: 52px;"/>&lt;/a>-->
&lt;p>To get started, use the icon above, or search the store for &amp;ldquo;Jellyfin&amp;rdquo;. We also plan on expanding this client to Windows in the near future.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Do you have suggestions or ideas on how to improve the experience? &lt;a href="../../contact">Let us know&lt;/a>, or visit the project on &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-uwp">GitHub&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Happy streaming!&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Jellyfin Release - v10.5.0</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-10-5-0/</link><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2020 08:11:42 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-10-5-0/</guid><description>&lt;p>A myriad of improvements, bugfixes, and a look towards the future.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>With &lt;strong>over 200 contributions&lt;/strong> and &lt;strong>over 500 issues closed&lt;/strong>, this is our biggest release yet. We&amp;rsquo;re releasing a bit before the expected Christmas deadline, but our anniversary release packs a lot of new features.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://jellyfin.org/downloads/" class="button button__accent">Download Jellyfin 10.5.0&lt;/a> &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases/tag/v10.5.0" class="button hero__button">Read the full release notes&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>This post will feature some of the main enhancements available in Jellyfin version 10.5.0. For an exhaustive list of all the changes, you can find a complete list on &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases/tag/v10.5.0">GitHub&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="web-client">Web client&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>This cycle, part of our focus was on improving the look and feel of the web client.&lt;/p>
&lt;div class="juxtapose">
&lt;img data-label="10.4.3" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/jellyfin-10-5-0/old-home.jpg" name="" />
&lt;img data-label="10.5.0" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/jellyfin-10-5-0/new-home.jpg" name="" />
&lt;/div>
&lt;p>The web client now uses the &lt;strong>Noto Sans&lt;/strong> font for all the languages we ship with. This makes for a more consistent experience and ensures that &lt;strong>multilingual libraries look unified&lt;/strong>.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Jellyfin 10.5.0 ships with the Latin, Greek, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Vietnamese and Devanagari versions of the Noto font, optimized for the web.&lt;/p>
&lt;div class="juxtapose">
&lt;img data-label="10.4.3" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/jellyfin-10-5-0/old-details.png" name="" />
&lt;img data-label="10.5.0" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/jellyfin-10-5-0/new-details.png" name="" />
&lt;/div>
&lt;p>The most noticeable visual change is the &lt;strong>new details page layout&lt;/strong>. It puts the artwork of your library front and center while looking more modern and polished.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>We have also completely &lt;strong>overhauled SSA/ASS subtitle support&lt;/strong>. Through the use of asm.js and Web Assembly, we now provide improved rendering for these formats, fixing some long-standing issues for anime lovers. Note that this feature is still experimental. If you notice lag in the rendering of complex effects, you can enable burn-in by selecting &lt;em>All complex formats&lt;/em> in &lt;em>User Settings &amp;gt; Subtitles &amp;gt; Burn subtitles&lt;/em>.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>However, most of the new developments in the web client are not immediately visible. We spent a lot of time preparing and cleaning the code for future improvements.&lt;/p>
&lt;img data-label="10.5.0" src="https://jellyfin.org/images/posts/jellyfin-10-5-0/webos-icons.png" name="" />
&lt;p>A few long-standing issues for WebOS have been fixed as well, bringing us a bit closer to the release of the WebOS app. Among these, icons are now properly working and the client has been reported to work on both WebOS 3 and WebOS 4. We also have plans for the next release that should improve compatibility with earlier WebOS versions and streamline the support of clients using older browser versions as a base. Navigation in the TV layout has also been substantially improved, paving the way for navigation using a remote.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Finally, several performance and responsiveness issues have been addressed. A rogue gamepad input loop is now properly handled, which prevents unnecessary repaintings by the browser and should improve performance. A previously disabled fade-in effect for images has also been enabled, making loading into a new page look smoother. It is now also possible to upload artwork in WEBP format.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="server">Server&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>This cycle, our server team ported the code over to .NET Core 3.1. This move makes new features available to our developers, including support for ARM64 for Linux, compatibility with TLS v1.3 and better garbage collection on Docker, allowing for better memory usage when running in a container.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>Support for AMD AMF hardware encoding&lt;/strong> is now available on Windows and Linux. We also improved DVD support when added as folders. The metadata provider for TheMovieDB now handles season images. Furthermore, various issues with media scanning, base URLs and DLNA were fixed. &lt;strong>Full hardware acceleration&lt;/strong> for Raspberry Pi is also now supported for older models. For Raspeberry Pi 4, hardware-accelerated encoding for H264 is now supported on Raspbian, both using the LinuxServer.io Docker and the repository package.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>As part of a project to move the core metadata providers to plugins, MusicBrainz is now a default plugin and allows you to configure the URL of the instance you want to pull data from. This allows you to host an instance of MusicBrainz and sidestep the global rate limiting enforced by the main service.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>In addition to all these improvements, more tests have been added on the server-side to help developers track down issues with new and existing code. This ensures a faster development time and helps prevents regressions, which will now be caught earlier through automated testing.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="documentation">Documentation&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Our documentation team has also been hard at work improving both the user and developer documentation.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Of note recently are the overhauls to the &lt;a href="https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networking/index.html">Networking&lt;/a> and &lt;a href="https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration.html">Hardware Acceleration&lt;/a> sections.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>We now provide an extensive &lt;a href="https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/codec-support.html">Codec Support&lt;/a> list and help on &lt;a href="https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/css-customization.html">CSS Customization&lt;/a>, with examples of useful CSS customizations to apply to your server via the Administration dashboard.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="looking-towards-the-future">Looking towards the future&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>A lot is happening in the world of Jellyfin recently. Since the release of Jellyfin 10.4.0, we have seen a lot of new contributors joining the team and the speed of development has tremendously accelerated.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>With the influx of contributors, we have a few large scale projects for both the server and the web client that should bring a ton of improvements to Jellyfin. More information is already available on &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/">GitHub&lt;/a> if you want to take part in the discussion or implementation.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>We&amp;rsquo;d like to thank all the contributors to this release for their hard work and dedication to making the best FOSS media server possible.&lt;/p>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Abbe98/">Abbe98&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/anthonylavado/">anthonylavado&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Artiume/">Artiume&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Bond-009/">Bond-009&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/bugfixin/">bugfixin&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/cvium/">cvium&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/dhartung/">dhartung&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/dinki/">dinki&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/dkanada/">dkanada&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/dmitrylyzo/">dmitrylyzo&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/DrPandemic/">DrPandemic&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/EraYaN/">EraYaN&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/ferferga/">ferferga&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/grafixeyehero/">grafixeyehero&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/joshuaboniface/">joshuaboniface&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/JustAMan/">JustAMan&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/LogicalPhallacy/">LogicalPhallacy&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/mark-monteiro/">mark-monteiro&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/MrTimscampi/">MrTimscampi&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Narfinger/">Narfinger&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Nickbert7/">Nickbert7&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/nvllsvm/">nvllsvm&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/nyanmisaka/">nyanmisaka&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/oddstr13/">oddstr13&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/ploughpuff/">ploughpuff&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/redSpoutnik/">redSpoutnik&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/sparky8251/">sparky8251&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/thornbill/">thornbill&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/vitorsemeano/">vitorsemeano&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/Wunax/">Wunax&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://github.com/YouKnowBlom/">YouKnowBlom&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;p>If you&amp;rsquo;d like to take part in the development of Jellyfin, most of the contributors are available on &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/">GitHub&lt;/a> or via &lt;a href="https://jellyfin.org/contact/">any of the ways on our contact page&lt;/a>.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Jellyfin for Kodi Release - v0.5.0</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/kodi-0-5-0/</link><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/kodi-0-5-0/</guid><description>&lt;p>Announcing Kodi 19 support, Python 3, and more!&lt;/p>
&lt;blockquote>
&lt;p>Please make sure you are either upgrading from version 0.4.1, or restart Kodi after upgrading to 0.5.0. There are some incompatibilities with new libraries that can&amp;rsquo;t be resolved at runtime and require either the previous version or a restart to initialize properly.&lt;/p>
&lt;/blockquote>
&lt;h2 id="highlights">Highlights&lt;/h2>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Kodi 19 support&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Significantly faster sync speed&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Less noisy logs&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h2 id="overview">Overview&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Kodi 19 (code named &amp;lsquo;Matrix&amp;rsquo;) is right around the corner and we&amp;rsquo;re ready for its arrival. Matrix is currently in a pre-release state and alpha releases are available in Team Kodi&amp;rsquo;s &lt;a href="https://mirrors.kodi.tv/nightlies/">nightly download repo&lt;/a>. This is a big release in that Matrix introduces Python 3 support into the Kodi addon ecosystem.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Other exciting news is that we have some significant speed increases within the addon, particularly surrounding the initial library sync. In some cases we&amp;rsquo;re seeing sync times well below half of their previous values. This is largely due to new contributor &lt;a href="https://github.com/druscoe">druscoe&lt;/a>, so there&amp;rsquo;s some well deserved shout outs there.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="release-notes">Release Notes&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Full release notes available on &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-kodi/releases/tag/v0.5.0">GitHub&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="download-now">Download Now&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>If you have the Jellyfin for Kodi addon repository installed and updates enabled, this version will automatically be installed for you.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>If you have installed the addon manually, the new zip file is available &lt;a href="https://repo.jellyfin.org/releases/client/kodi/plugin.video.jellyfin/plugin.video.jellyfin-0.5.0.zip">here&lt;/a>.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Client Spotlight: MPV Shim</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/client-mpv/</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/client-mpv/</guid><description>&lt;p>Jellyfin MPV Shim is a lightweight cast-only client that allows you to cast videos from Jellyfin to the &lt;a href="https://mpv.io/">MPV Media Player&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>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 many configurable options for advanced users.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>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.&lt;/p>
&lt;img src="https://jellyfin.org/images/mpv-shim/blender.png" name="Interface" />
&lt;p>To get started on Windows, simply &lt;a href="https://github.com/iwalton3/jellyfin-mpv-shim/releases">download the binary&lt;/a> and run it. If you are on Linux, &lt;a href="https://github.com/iwalton3/jellyfin-mpv-shim/blob/master/README.md#linux-installation">follow the instructions here&lt;/a>. 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.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>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 &lt;a href="https://github.com/iwalton3/jellyfin-mpv-shim#keyboard-shortcuts">using keyboard shortcuts&lt;/a>. Most of the options can be accessed using the menu during playback. Press &lt;code>C&lt;/code> on your computer or use the arrow-based navigation controls in the mobile client when supported.&lt;/p>
&lt;img src="https://jellyfin.org/images/mpv-shim/menu.png" name="Configuration Menu" />
&lt;p>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 &lt;strong>Auto Set Audio/Subtitles&lt;/strong> 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 &lt;strong>Preferences&lt;/strong> menu to adjust the default playback settings and remote video quality.&lt;/p>
&lt;blockquote>
&lt;p>Client Spotlight&lt;/p>
&lt;p>This blog series aims to highlight some of the amazing projects created by our community.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Feel free to send a message if you can think of a project that could use more love!&lt;/p>
&lt;/blockquote></description></item><item><title>New Android TV Release - v0.11.0</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/android-tv-11/</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/android-tv-11/</guid><description>&lt;p>Thank you for using Jellyfin! This is a major update for the Android TV client.&lt;/p>
&lt;blockquote>
&lt;p>⚠️
We have added crash reporting. Read the notes below for more information.&lt;/p>
&lt;/blockquote>
&lt;h2 id="highlights">Highlights&lt;/h2>
&lt;ul>
&lt;li>Upgraded ExoPlayer to version 2
This means video playback should be a lot smoother now!&lt;/li>
&lt;li>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 &amp;ldquo;Home&amp;rdquo; preferences.&lt;br>
&lt;em>Note: changing sections is only available in the web version for now&lt;/em>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Integration with &amp;ldquo;Next Up&amp;rdquo; section on Android TV devices&lt;/li>
&lt;/ul>
&lt;h2 id="crash-reporting">Crash Reporting&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>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.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>We don&amp;rsquo;t want to force users to report their logs to a third-party and therefore we won&amp;rsquo;t report anything by default. When a crash occured the app will show a dialog and ask to report the logs.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>All crash reports are retained for 30 days and can only be reviewed by a small group of developers inside the Android TV team.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>More information can be found in the &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-androidtv/issues/193">issue&lt;/a> about this change.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="release-notes">Release Notes&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Full release notes available on &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-androidtv/releases/tag/v0.11.0">GitHub&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="download-now">Download Now&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>&lt;a class="NoLinkLook" href='https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.jellyfin.androidtv&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;pcampaignid=pcampaignidMKT-Other-global-all-co-prtnr-py-PartBadge-Mar2515-1'>&lt;img width="153" alt='Get it on Google Play' src='https://jellyfin.org/images/store-icons/google-play.png'/>&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;a class="NoLinkLook" href='https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TX7Z725/ref=jellyfin_for_fire_tv'>&lt;img width="153" alt='Available at Amazon App Store' src='https://jellyfin.org/images/store-icons/amazon.png'/>&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Direct downloads are always available from &lt;a href="https://repo.jellyfin.org/releases/client/androidtv/">our repository&lt;/a>.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Jellyfin in 2019</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-in-2019/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-in-2019/</guid><description>&lt;p>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&amp;rsquo;t sure exactly what was going to happen. Did we have the resources to make a fork of Emby really happen? Were the doubters right in saying that we wouldn&amp;rsquo;t last a year? It seems that we&amp;rsquo;ve proven them, and ourselves, wrong.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>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&amp;rsquo;t have gone anywhere at all, and for that you have our eternal thanks!&lt;/p>
&lt;p>2019 has been a busy year for the &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin">Core Server project&lt;/a>. Starting with our first &amp;ldquo;real&amp;rdquo; release of 10.0.0 in early January 2019, we&amp;rsquo;ve been through 5 &amp;ldquo;major&amp;rdquo; 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&amp;rsquo;ve removed tons of cruft, embedded 3rd-party libraries, and dead code, while adding numerous useful features. And we&amp;rsquo;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.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>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. &lt;a href="https://features.jellyfin.org">Our Fider feature request center&lt;/a> 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&amp;rsquo;re interested in helping, please check out our &lt;a href="https://jellyfin.org/contribute/">How To Contribute&lt;/a> page for details.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>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: &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-android">Android&lt;/a> and &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-androidtv">Android TV&lt;/a> are both in the major App stores (Google Play and Amazon) as well as available as &lt;a href="https://repo.jellyfin.org/releases/client">direct &lt;code>.apk&lt;/code> downloads&lt;/a>, including &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-chromecast">Chromecast&lt;/a> support, while &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-kodi">Kodi&lt;/a> 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 &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-expo">iOS Expo App&lt;/a>, which is currently in TestFlight Beta, which will hopefully bring us more support for Apple devices. &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-roku">Roku&lt;/a>, 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 &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-webos">WebOS&lt;/a>, which still must be side-loaded but generally works. Finally &lt;a href="https://github.com/jellyfin/mopidy-jellyfin">the Mopidy plugin&lt;/a> has been ported and improved extensively, offering proper population of the Mopidy library, multi-library support, and audio-book playback.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Though we admittedly still lack some of the more well-requested but &amp;ldquo;niche&amp;rdquo; 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 &lt;a href="https://jellyfin.org/contribute/">How To Contribute&lt;/a> page for details.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>I would be remiss to not discuss the Jellyfin community, both &lt;a href="https://reddit.com/r/jellyfin">over on Reddit&lt;/a>, &lt;a href="https://forum.jellyfin.org">our own forums&lt;/a>, as well as our Matrix chats. Jellyfin wouldn&amp;rsquo;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.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>I wish all of you a happy new year, a happy decade, and many many hours of watching enjoyment on your Jellyfin instances!&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Cheers,
Joshua, Project Co-Leader&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Welcome to the New Website!</title><link>https://jellyfin.org/posts/welcome/</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://jellyfin.org/posts/welcome/</guid><description>&lt;p>Welcome to our brand new website.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>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&amp;rsquo;s under the hood. Our website is now built using &lt;a href="https://www.gohugo.io">Hugo&lt;/a>, a static-page generator written in Go.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>As part of the move, we&amp;rsquo;ve decided to introduce this new blog, where you&amp;rsquo;ll be able to hear more about Jellyfin&amp;rsquo;s new releases, future development, and goals. Occasionally, we&amp;rsquo;ll feature guest posts from some of our own contributors.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Thank you for using Jellyfin. We can&amp;rsquo;t wait to share what&amp;rsquo;s next!&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>