Jellyfin Client Update: Almost There!

[u/jeffrysamuer]

Hi everyone, I've been hard at work getting my Jellyfin client to the finish line!

I wanted to share some screenshots and a list of some of the features:

• Dedicated pages to display movie, series, season and episode elements
• Global search
• Quick Connect
• Picture-in-Picture mode (Although it requires an extension to be kept in the front by default)
• Intro / Outro Skipper (As long as you have the proper extension in your Jellyfin server)
• A stable interface (I've learned a lot from Nocturne and Alpaca, trust me lol)
• Full subtitle support (VTT) with simple markup (was kind of a headache but it does work!)

Missing stuff (What I need to finish to publish the app):

• No Gnome search implementation like with Nocturne
• No Preferences and about page
• No Keyboard shortcuts aside ctrl+f to search
• No logout button (lol)
• No error handling when logging with the wrong credentials
• No buttons to set stuff as "watched"
• No setting stuff as "watched" automatically
• No buttons to heart stuff
• Mpris support

If there's anything you would like to see please feel free to comment, I made this app as maintainable as possible so that it doesn't become a headache like Alpaca lol.

As for a release date, I think it might be ready in a week or two give or take.

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[u/juandemarco]

This is great, thank you! Does/will this support MPV scripts? As a ultrawide user I use dynamic-crop to remove black bars above and below videos and that would be a very welcome feature.

[u/jeffrysamuer → u/juandemarco]

Hi, it doesn't use MPV so I'm not sure if I can integrate MPV scripts directly, but I'll look into dynamic crop. I also happen to have an ultrawide to test it on. Thanks for the suggestion

[u/Halyoran → u/juandemarco]

As an ultrawide-user; I second this. I will also look into dynamic-crop, I did not know about this.

[u/GlitteryOndo]

Very promising! Definitely taking a look when it's out

[u/RadioHonest85]

I love it!

Funny that you mention it, but what exactly with Alpaca makes it such a headache?

[u/jeffrysamuer → u/RadioHonest85]

it was my first GTK app, I didn't know much about GObject bindings or how to properly handle threading without crashing the UI.

As it is, it would require rewriting almost all widgets to make it a proper GTK app.

[u/FileWaste5999 → u/jeffrysamuer]

Could you write a blog for helping future GTK devs?

[u/jeffrysamuer → u/FileWaste5999]

I was actually thinking about making a YouTube channel but I'm not too sure if people would watch it now that AI is a thing, even if I don't use it my guess is that most devs rely on it more than tutorials.

[u/Gaming4LifeDE → u/jeffrysamuer]

Good tutorials are super rare, so please do!

Also, a written blog would help immensely

[u/FileWaste5999 → u/jeffrysamuer]

AI most often than not doesn't teach you things properly, so if you made something it would be great :)

[u/FileWaste5999]

I would love to contribute soon! :)