Switchfin – third-party native Jellyfin client

Switchfin is a third-party PC player for Jellyfin that provides a native user interface to browse and play movies and series.

Jellyfin is a free and open source media server. You run it on your own hardware, point it at your movie, TV, music, and photo libraries, and then stream that media to your devices through Jellyfin apps or a web browser. It’s designed for self-hosting, so you manage your own server and data rather than relying on a commercial streaming platform.

In the Switchfin context, Jellyfin is the backend server that stores and serves your media, while Switchfin is a client app that connects to that server and plays the content.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Completely native interface.
• Supports movies, series, seasons, and episodes.
• Supports direct play and transcoding.
• Includes remote browsing for WebDAV, Apache, Nginx, and FTP servers.
• Uses MPV for media playback.
• Supports MKV, MOV, MP4, and AVI container formats.
• Supports H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, and AV1 video codecs.
• Supports Opus, FLAC, MP3, AAC, AC-3, E-AC-3, TrueHD, DTS, and DTS-HD audio codecs.
• Supports SRT, VTT, SSA/ASS, and DVDSUB subtitle formats.
• Offers optional software decoding when hardware decoding has issues.
• Supports external drives using libusbhsfs.
• Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, Android, macOS, and Windows.

Website: github.com/dragonflylee/switchfin
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Developer: dragonflylee
License: Apache License 2.0

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