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Switchfin - Third-party native Jellyfin client for PC/PS4/PSVita/Nintendo Switch - dragonflylee - 2025-02-13
Switchfin is third-party PC player for Jellyfin that provides a native user interface to browse and play movies and series.
Project repository|Stable Build|Nightly Build
This project is in its early stages so expect bugs.
https://github.com/dragonflylee/switchfin
Features
- Completely native interface
- Supported media items: movies, series, seasons, episodes
- Direct play and transcoding
- Remote browser for Webdav/Apache/Nginx/FTP server
- Base on MPV Player
- Container formats: mkv, mov, mp4, avi
- Video codecs: H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, AV1
- Audio codecs: Opus, FLAC, MP3, AAC, AC-3, E-AC-3, TrueHD, DTS, DTS-HD
- Subtitle codecs: SRT, VTT, SSA/ASS, DVDSUB
- Optionally force software decoding when hardware decoding has issues.
Input mapping during playback
- A Play/Pause
- B Stop during
- Y Toggle OSD
- X Show Menu
- R/L Seek +/-
- L Stick Button Toggle Speed Select
- R Stick Button Toggle Video Quality Select
- + Show video profile
Screenshots
![[Image: home.jpg]](https://github.com/dragonflylee/switchfin/raw/dev/images/home.jpg)
Post here any kind of bug/suggestions.
Enjoy!
Thanks to
RE: Switchfin - Third-party native Jellyfin client for PC/PS4/Nintendo Switch - TonyGinSLC - 2025-03-06
Running Ubuntu 24.10. After installing SwitchFin I try to run the application and I get the following error in my event logs and the application will not run:
bwrap: Can't mkdir /app/lib/ffmpeg: Read-only file system
If anyone has any ideas, I would love to hear. Thank you.
RE: Switchfin - Third-party native Jellyfin client for PC/PS4/Nintendo Switch - aa846513843 - 2025-03-07
Good work! I've been daily driving this client for the past 2 weeks and it has been pretty ideal for my steamos living room pc, works great with a controller or mouse/keyboard, even switching between the two regularly. It's been extremely stable.
I was able to install the version 0.5 flatpak, the newer releases gave me the 'bwrap: Can't mkdir /app/lib/ffmpeg: Read-only file system' error and I haven't really dug into it so far.
RE: Switchfin - Third-party native Jellyfin client for PC/PS4/Nintendo Switch - dragonflylee - 2025-03-09
(2025-03-07, 04:24 PM)aa846513843 Wrote: Good work! I've been daily driving this client for the past 2 weeks and it has been pretty ideal for my steamos living room pc, works great with a controller or mouse/keyboard, even switching between the two regularly. It's been extremely stable.
I was able to install the version 0.5 flatpak, the newer releases gave me the 'bwrap: Can't mkdir /app/lib/ffmpeg: Read-only file system' error and I haven't really dug into it so far.
flatpak issue was fixed in latest https://nightly.link/dragonflylee/switchfin/workflows/build.yaml/dev
RE: Switchfin - Third-party native Jellyfin client for PC/PS4/Nintendo Switch - aa846513843 - 2025-03-11
Cool! I'll give it a go tonight.
(2025-03-09, 02:13 PM)dragonflylee Wrote:(2025-03-07, 04:24 PM)aa846513843 Wrote: Good work! I've been daily driving this client for the past 2 weeks and it has been pretty ideal for my steamos living room pc, works great with a controller or mouse/keyboard, even switching between the two regularly. It's been extremely stable.
I was able to install the version 0.5 flatpak, the newer releases gave me the 'bwrap: Can't mkdir /app/lib/ffmpeg: Read-only file system' error and I haven't really dug into it so far.
flatpak issue was fixed in latest https://nightly.link/dragonflylee/switchfin/workflows/build.yaml/dev
RE: Switchfin - Third-party native Jellyfin client for PC/PS4/Nintendo Switch - aa846513843 - 2025-03-20
I have one feature request: an option to preset the user selection screen on startup, being behind the settings button my roommate never switches profiles and gums up my watch history.
Either way, I appreciate the work you've put in to this, it is an excellent client.