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Jellyfin external player? - Bloc67 - 2025-07-02
I have used Emby for a number of years but really wanted to start using Jellyfin for a number of reasons - but the one thing that always kept me from it was the lack of support for a external player. Well, it does have that now but unfortunelately it seems it only supports its own version of MPV, also my preferred player. It does not respect the settings and extensions I have set for it but uses its own. Have anyone else experienced this and is there anything to be done about it?
RE: Jellyfin external player? - crobibero - 2025-07-02
Sounds like you are referring to Jellyfin Media Player.
You can try using https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-mpv-shim
RE: Jellyfin external player? - Bloc67 - 2025-07-03
Thanks, but already tried it. It does load "my" mpv..but the path to the movie file is a localhost adress and not the actual one. That means it will not respect settings for the file I have set(i keep separate settings wth multiple parameters changed, saved in each folder specifially for that movie or series/season)..and come to think of it, since its essentially a casting device its logical to use this I guess.
But why is it so hard to mimic the behavour of Emby theatre in this respect? That one sends only the actual path..why can't that be done in Jellyfin? (EmbyTheatre have its own set of problems and is a bit delicate on Arch Linux, but for this option it handles things very nice).
EDIT: Plex used to have this problem too..i used a "external player" javascript plugin to actually get the file location sent to my then Potplayer installation on Windows. Then came Emby with its Theatre app and it just became much easier. Swtiched to Linux since that.
RE: Jellyfin external player? - crobibero - 2025-07-03
Jellyfin Media Player was forked from Plex media player and not related to anything that Emby does.
Jellyfin Media Player has support for plugins so you may be able to modify the external player plugin you mentioned. I don’t have any other suggestions as what you are attempting to do isn’t something Jellyfin supports.