GitHub - damontecres/Wholphin: An OSS Android TV client for Jellyfin (github.com)
from illusionist@lemmy.zip to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 28 Mar 19:12
https://lemmy.zip/post/61571530

Just wanted to share it. I just discovered it. Looks cool

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warmaster@lemmy.world on 28 Mar 20:11 next collapse

Holy crap, this looks amazing. Has anyone tried it?

Sprint3854@lemmy.ml on 28 Mar 21:35 next collapse

I discovered wholphin several months ago and so far it’s been fantastic for an Android tv client. The intent of the design is to be similar in UI to Plex and it achieves that very well even in it’s early development.

I’d easily say it’s the most polished client I’ve seen to date from a UI perspective even though I know there are some bugs people see (although they seem minor). For most people switching others from Plex to Jellyfin, the app is a great option.

entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org on 28 Mar 22:58 next collapse

I’ve been using it for a couple months. It’s been great, for the most part

warmaster@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 00:57 collapse

What about the lesser part… what happened?

entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org on 29 Mar 01:31 collapse

On the Nvidia Shield the MPV backend doesn’t really work, it has an issue with stuttering. Works great on my other TV, though. Besides that, just a few crashes early on, nothing recently, though.

Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip on 29 Mar 15:45 collapse

I’ve been using it for a little while now - I prefer the UI of the official app, but Wholphin is the only way I can consistently and properly play everything in my library with 0 transcoding.

I have a ShieldTV+AVR setup that can handle every media format out there, but for some reason the default app always transcoded Atmos & DTS audio (or just refuses to play if I disable transcoding entirely).

Wholphin does not have this issue, and now everything plays flawlessly with 0 overhead.

dustyData@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 20:00 collapse

Might be a jellyfin setting. I discovered that while the players report the device capabilities (with some caveats), some edge cases make the server still transcode video because it instructs certain formats to always transcode. There are too many variables and the server plays it safe. The biggest culprit is bitrate.

otter@lemmy.ca on 28 Mar 21:56 next collapse

Neat, are there any other clients for Android TV aside from the official one?

Fladder was working on it, but last I tried it was still too unstable to use

JuvenoiaAgent@piefed.ca on 28 Mar 22:11 collapse

Fladder works pretty well for me, but yes, there are other clients now: - Moonfin (GitHub) - Void - Reefin - DUNE

otter@lemmy.ca on 29 Mar 02:27 collapse

Nice, I had no idea

I tried out Fladder, Moonfin, and Wholphin

  • Fladder does load, but it crashes on certain pages for me. My guess is that my hardware isn’t powerful enough to handle something that it’s trying to do
  • Moonfin and Wholfin are both beautiful with an intuitive UI. Between the two, I liked Wholfin the best. It has a preview when customizing the home page, which is very helpful compared to the back and forth guess and test with the other ones. I also prefer it’s UI and default settings over the others

I replaced Findroid with Wholphin on ours

const_void@lemmy.ml on 28 Mar 22:25 next collapse

We need a good tvOS client

bdonvr@thelemmy.club on 29 Mar 00:56 next collapse

Infuse is great…

If you pay. I’d love an alternative tho

B0rax@feddit.org on 29 Mar 16:03 collapse

It is good, but I wouldn’t call it great

motruck@lemmy.zip on 29 Mar 03:24 next collapse

You misspelled spyos.

NarrativeBear@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 16:45 collapse

That can be installed on any hardware, as opposed to just a TV directly. That I could get behind.

kia@lemmy.ca on 29 Mar 02:51 next collapse

Can this be installed on Samsung TVs?

sirico@feddit.uk on 29 Mar 05:52 next collapse

Love it, integrating jelly seer means my partner can just discover shows and add them

prenatal_confusion@feddit.org on 29 Mar 07:53 next collapse

Long history of releases and Bugfixes, No AI contributions at first glance … Could it be?!

Disclaimer: I don’t mind AI as a tool, I mind slop.

Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 14:26 next collapse

I tried this for the first time a few days ago and it seems pretty good.

If you hold the selection button on a movie/show theres an option to “Play with transcoding” which helped solve a lot of problems for me when playing things on older hardware in situations where the official Jellyfin app would incorrectly try to direct play content that actually wasnt compatible.

tony@programming.dev on 29 Mar 17:16 collapse

I have been using Wholphin over the official Jellyfin Android TV client for months now. I have trouble with some Dolby Vision content with the official one. Wholphin is able to play those files fine. Wholphin has an in app updater that makes it really easy to update. No need to touch the Play Store (or even have it enabled lol). I appreciate all the work that goes into Jellyfin and Wholphin allows me to get the most out of my server.