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Jellyfin Media Player and MPV Shim Updates for 10.8.0

Release

Jellyfin Media Player v1.7.0

This is the first release of JMP targeting Jellyfin 10.8.0 stable. Thank you to everyone who tested the pre-releases!

Changes:

  • Update web client to 10.8.0.
  • Add --platform option. (#159)
  • Added Xbox input mapping. (#197)
  • Disable youtube-dl attempts on media errors.
  • Allow retry with transcode instead of usng a hard failure. (#127)
  • Add exit app function (#198)
  • Set the MaxStaticBitrate to avoid server hard-coded 8 mbps limit.
  • Add build for Ubuntu 22.04 (#256)
  • Enable windows dark mode support. (#247)

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Jellyfin MPV Shim v2.1.0

This release fixes some bugs and brings the software more up-to-date. I have done some testing against the newly released 10.8.0 server.

Changes:

  • Upgrade to MPV version 20220515 9467772.
  • Add flag for force_set_played due to double trakt play issue.
  • Prevent multiple unwanted update checks.
  • Fix to work with python-mpv 1.0 and MPV library v2.
  • Add play_cmd and idle_ended_cmd. (#225)
  • Allow disabling raise_mpv and also only do it once per play. (#218)
  • Make transcode termination failure non-fatal. (#259)

Links:

Posted Jun 11, 2022, 5:32 PM UTC

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nightfury0609•

Thanks a ton for working on this !! :)

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present_absence•

You're an absolute rockstar, guy, thank you.

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Moose4Lunch•

The "Restart" button in the GUI is broken now. It causes a hang and/or stops the server entirely.

Workaround: Terminal command 'sudo systemctl restart jellyfin' still works, so I'm using that instead for the time being.

Linux Mint, github Focal .deb install package, updated from jellyin-media player 10.6 to 10.7

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Moose4Lunch•

Actually the web client is doing this as well, so likely it's a Server version 10.8 issue. I'll look into the appropriate way to post this bug.

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thornbillJellyfin Core Team - Web/Expo•

You are right. It is a server bug: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/7503

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Extarys•

Thanks!🥰🥰

When will it support av1 on linux? The desktop client shows a black screen 😁

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scratchrOPJellyfin Team - JMP/MPV•

It should work as long as the version of MPV you have on your system supports it. I know I specifically build ffmpeg with `--enable-libdav1d` in the flatpak version.

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Extarys•

Hey thanks for your reply!

I can play AV1 file with the Jellyfin MPV Shim, regular MPV, flatpak MPV and VLC, but not Jellyfin Desktop client :/ It's a blank screen and only hear audio. I believe there is an existing issue on github. I was told on Matrix last year I believe that it's a missing dependency on the Jellyfin desktop client's flatpak... But my knowledge to make a PR about this is quite limited.

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Spinmoon•

Thank you so much!

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confused_techie•

Just got notified when opening the app today. Thanks so much for all your hard work. One thing I was curious about, not following along much with the changes to Jellyfin APIS, but if there is any breaking change does the client need to modify anything to support each version? Or are those sort of things not up to the web client

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scratchrOPJellyfin Team - JMP/MPV•

Yes if there are breaking changes the clients need to update. But Jellyfin generally does avoid breaking changes.

MPV Shim was largely unchanged with this release from an API standpoint. I didn't update the API client at all, instead just updating some libraries and fixing some bugs.

Jellyfin Media Player is more tightly coupled to the server version since it ships the entire web client. There are significantly more things likely to change that would affect compatibility, and I make no effort to support older server versions with it. That being said, since all of my extensions to jellyfin-web are now part of the upstream project, this process of updating web literally just entails building it and uploading it to GitHub.

There are more substantial changes that will happen for an "API v2" rewrite, but it is still being debated how exactly that should be handled.

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confused_techie•

Thanks so much. I appreciate you giving such a thorough answer. And in that case it sounds like in the future it may be a good idea to try and keep both the server and clients updated together, because I wont lie it may have been some time since the last server update for me.

Thanks again for everything!

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7una•

The exit app function is interesting, but I can't see from the code or any documentation what hotkey it's bound to?

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scratchrOPJellyfin Team - JMP/MPV•

I know it is accessible from the menu: https://i.imgur.com/qfW2u9V.png

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kenfrd•

I use this app extensively in my household. Thanks a bunch for this! I'm going to try out this XBox controller capability now.

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scratchrOPJellyfin Team - JMP/MPV•

Note that you have to put the web client in “TV mode” and restart the application for controllers to work properly.

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UrbenLegend•

Any this can be made to work with the Steam Deck? It works with an Xbox controller on desktop but not with the Steam Deck controls. I've already enabled TV mode and gamepad input in Jellyfin settings.

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scratchrOPJellyfin Team - JMP/MPV•

If enabling TV mode and restarting the client didn’t work it likely needs some attention. I am on the waitlist to purchase a steam deck though…

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UrbenLegend•

Yeah, I thought Steam Input would try to emulate an Xbox controller, but I don't think that's the case. Happy to help with some debugging if that's at all possible though.

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