Switchfin: Jellyfin client for Nintendo Switch

dragonflylee · Sep 20, 2023

TobiasAmaranth said:
I tested Nxmp recently, it's definitely decent. My problem is that I'm a networking dunce so I don't know how to set myself up a local file hosting from my non-Linux PC, heh.

rclone maybe one of the most easy way to host local file,

Bash:

rclone serve webdav "D:\Video" --read-only

alternatively alist is another powerful tools for file host https://alist.nn.ci/guide/install/manual.html

ertaboy356b · Sep 20, 2023

Great, what would be even greater is Streamio since I have a Debrid setup their.

kidcharlemagne · Sep 20, 2023

TobiasAmaranth said:
I tested Nxmp recently, it's definitely decent. My problem is that I'm a networking dunce so I don't know how to set myself up a local file hosting from my non-Linux PC, heh.

Over HTTP? Use simple HTTP server: https://github.com/TheWaWaR/simple-http-server

Drop it in a folder in run it. Ta-da, you are now serving every file in that folder and all subfolders.

bowlofspiders · Sep 20, 2023

TheStonedModder said:
This is the best thing ever! Great work

The more devices that support jellyfish the closer I can get to ditching plex for good

I'm getting closer to ditching Plex because the feature parity is almost there for Jellyfin. Guessing a swap within ~6 months myself.

Thorhax · Sep 20, 2023

awesome thx

PoloNX · Sep 20, 2023

Nice project. Love that

driverdis · Sep 20, 2023

With Plex trying to block users running on VPS solutions (Hetzner so far, more are likely to come), it is nice to see a client like this come out for those of us who want to ditch Plex.

TheStonedModder · Sep 20, 2023

jomaper said:
what's wrong with plex?

Lots of things but my biggest gripe is that a lot of their stuff is getting locked behind their paywall(which is fine I have a lifetime license) but they are also pushing these features to the wayside in favor of things no one asks for (like live tv) while a lot of our paywalled features are bugged and don’t properly work most of the time

Try downloading a piece of your content through their plex app for offline use. It will likely get stuck as transcoding and never download

dragonflylee · Sep 20, 2023

Gaara4 said:
Sure. Here a two examples.

try

which add new option `force direct play`

SimisFul · Sep 20, 2023

TheStonedModder said:
This is the best thing ever! Great work

The more devices that support jellyfish the closer I can get to ditching plex for good

I'm curious, what are other devices where Plex is supported and not Jellyfin? I'm guessing PS3, I can't remember if Xbox has plex but Jellyfin works okay in Edge. Well playback is great, controls aren't of course.

linuxares · Sep 20, 2023

SimisFul said:
I'm curious, what are other devices where Plex is supported and not Jellyfin? I'm guessing PS3, I can't remember if Xbox has plex but Jellyfin works okay in Edge. Well playback is great, controls aren't of course.

Plex is a commercial application so they probably paid for a devkit and developed it to for example a PS4.

Jellyfin needs to be ported and since they have no monetary insensitive, I guess they won't "port it" to other platforms.

TheStonedModder · Sep 20, 2023

SimisFul said:
I'm curious, what are other devices where Plex is supported and not Jellyfin? I'm guessing PS3, I can't remember if Xbox has plex but Jellyfin works okay in Edge. Well playback is great, controls aren't of course.

The big difference between plex and jellyfin/emby

Is that plex has an app on damn near every device I’ve ever searched on. Even shitty smart TVs. Which is the biggest reason I still use plex myself

Jellyfin/emby are much more spread out with what devices have apps or not. Like for example PS4/5. Plex supports it but Jellyfin/emby does not

Gaara4 · Sep 20, 2023

dragonflylee said:
try which add new option `force direct play`

Does work. Now i have the otpion to choose the subtitle and audio track.

linuxares · Sep 20, 2023

TheStonedModder said:
The big difference between plex and jellyfin/emby

Is that plex has an app on damn near every device I’ve ever searched on. Even shitty smart TVs. Which is the biggest reason I still use plex myself

Jellyfin/emby are much more spread out with what devices have apps or not. Like for example PS4/5. Plex supports it but Jellyfin/emby does not

Emby works on a lot.

https://emby.media/download.html

Since it's also commercial

TheStonedModder · Sep 20, 2023

linuxares said:
Emby works on a lot.

https://emby.media/download.html

Since it's also commercial

Wow emby supports a ton more than I remember! Maybe I wasnt a fan of the Ui or something else minor/dumb

Thanks for the correction. I’ll have to try them out tonight

linuxares · Sep 20, 2023

To bad they stopped being opensource 2018. That's the source code that Jellyfin adapted and continued working on.

averne · Sep 20, 2023

ostebob said:
Might be off topic, but could the hw accel be used for moonlight?

Edit: github/XITRIX/Moonlight-Switch/pull/113

It already is, check out the last release
https://github.com/XITRIX/Moonlight-Switch/releases/latest

SimisFul · Sep 20, 2023

TheStonedModder said:
The big difference between plex and jellyfin/emby

Is that plex has an app on damn near every device I’ve ever searched on. Even shitty smart TVs. Which is the biggest reason I still use plex myself

Jellyfin/emby are much more spread out with what devices have apps or not. Like for example PS4/5. Plex supports it but Jellyfin/emby does not

I see, fair enough! Thanks for the details

TobiasAmaranth · Sep 20, 2023

kidcharlemagne said:
Over HTTP? Use simple HTTP server: https://github.com/TheWaWaR/simple-http-server

Drop it in a folder in run it. Ta-da, you are now serving every file in that folder and all subfolders.

This looks like it may be a winner, but what's the way to get it working in NXMP? https://gbatemp.net/threads/nxmp-nintendo-switch-media-player.601868/post-10247780 (The Add Share thing is pretty buggy too so I'll just manually make it if there's something I can copy over..?)

jomaper · Sep 20, 2023

TheStonedModder said:
Lots of things but my biggest gripe is that a lot of their stuff is getting locked behind their paywall(which is fine I have a lifetime license) but they are also pushing these features to the wayside in favor of things no one asks for (like live tv) while a lot of our paywalled features are bugged and don’t properly work most of the time

Try downloading a piece of your content through their plex app for offline use. It will likely get stuck as transcoding and never download

I see, my use has been pretty limited so I guess that's why I haven't found any big issues. Thanks!

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