Sailfin
Sailfin allows you to stream media from a Jellyfin server to your Sailfish device. Jellyfin is a FLOSS multimedia server that puts you in control of your media.
This is an alpha version. Code may be unstable, design may be crappy and features are missing!
Features right now:
- Play music, video's, photo's and series
- Reporting playback information
Missing features:
- IPTV and livestream support
- Video quality selection
Souce code available at https://github.com/HenkKalkwater/harbour-sailfin
Sailfish forum thread: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/sailfin-a-jellyfin-client-for-sailfish-os...
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Changelog:
- New features
- Allow remote controlling other Jellyfin clients. See the pulley item on the main screen named
"Remote Control"
- Let other devices log in using the Quick Connect feature of Jellyfin.
- New layout for artist pages
- New layout for the music library
- New layout for playlist pages
- Navigation to artists of a song added when long-pressing a song or pressing the name
on the now playing screen.
- Allow selecting the start page of the app.
- Films now display the backdrop instead of the poster on the now playing page, since this has
a better aspect ratio for the available space.
- Added a Russian translation (thanks to Mikhail Barashkov)
- Bug fixes
- The album overview page should now behave correctly with a non-square image
- Collections with films and series should now show the items in a 9:16 aspect ratio again
- Large lists with more than 100 items should no longer infinitly repeat the first 100 items
- Media controls on the lockscreen should work again
Comments
Termitebug
Mon, 2025/03/03 - 19:30
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Any fix for making screen stay on when playing video?
ahappyhuman
Wed, 2025/03/05 - 01:38
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It has been fixed in commit 5328e63, but it is not released yet. I will try to release it as soon as I have some more time
Cryx
Mon, 2024/11/18 - 10:43
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I'm using Sailfin on Xperia 10 III. Sadly just music works, I can't play any video (just shows a picture), and when I open a photo the app gets stuck.
Ingvix
Fri, 2022/06/17 - 21:47
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Is this still in development? I'm able vo login but can't see any media on the page. Only the 'Resume watching' and 'Next up' headers. Also it requires to login everytime I open the app.
ahappyhuman
Mon, 2022/06/20 - 14:47
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Do you by any chance connect to your Jellyfin server over HTTPS? In that case, the application freezes most likely due to a bug within the old Qt version that Sailfish OS uses.
Ingvix
Fri, 2022/06/24 - 05:52
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No, just plain http on my home network. The application stays responsive but never shows any media.
ahappyhuman
Thu, 2022/07/21 - 00:20
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Apparently the autentication broke due to a very minor change on the server side, I fixed it in version 0.4.2, which should be uploaded quite soon.
Ingvix
Fri, 2022/07/22 - 14:21
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Yes, it's working now and is actually quite nice for an alpha release. I noticed some errors popping when trying to watch heavier movies which the server needs to transcode but was able to watch them in the end still.
Now I might even transfer my whole music library to my server. Big thanks for the app.
EDIT: Also would be nice if you had some channel to make donations through. I wouldn't mind offering a cup of coffee or two to keep this project alive.
ahappyhuman
Fri, 2022/07/22 - 23:31
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I added a donate button in the description for liberapay, if that would work for you. If you want to make a one-time donation, just set renewal on manual and cancel after making one donation :)
nas
Wed, 2021/09/29 - 18:27
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@ahappyhuman thank you for sailfin!
I installed jellyfin localy and worked pretty well with most videos I tried!
I also tried the https with self signed certificate which didn't work, any chance to add an option for that?
thank you in advance!
ahappyhuman
Thu, 2021/10/28 - 03:28
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I've made an issue on GitHub for this over here, so that you can follow the progress. It sadly seems to be non-trivial at the moment, mainly due to QtMultimedia, which uses GStreamer internally, which uses another TLS stack than Qt, but is not exposed via QtMultimedia. Anyhow, if I have the time I'll try to get it implemented.
ahappyhuman
Sat, 2020/10/10 - 19:29
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I'm aware that the current release is a bit large, I'm currently investigating in how I can shrink it down. The problem has to do with libraries not getting stripped, I will make a new release once I figure out how.
sashikknox
Wed, 2020/09/30 - 13:53
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What GStreamer plugin i need? Cant play any video, and it not show categries of video, but i use it with emby... )
ahappyhuman
Wed, 2020/09/30 - 23:40
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My initial guess of what's happening is that the apis of both servers have started to diverge. From a quick glance at the api documentation, there seems to be a significant difference in how stream URLs are obtained. Emby pushes the burden on the client side to select the correct stream, with the right transcode settings and so on, while Jellyfin expects the client to deliver information to the server about what it can play back and Jellyfin will recommend a stream for the device.
What probably happend is that Sailfin gets a response it doesn't understand when trying to request the stream URL, as it's a Jellyfin-specific endpoint, interprets this garbage response (which it shouldn't) and sets the URL to the stream to a garbage value. GStreamer tries to load this URL, probably gets a html response back or something and doesn't know what to do with it.
sashikknox
Sun, 2020/10/04 - 16:19
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Ok, thanks anyway for your application )
sashikknox
Wed, 2020/09/30 - 13:39
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Yeah!!!
Work with emby!
Please, use only Emby compatible API)) really thank you! Nice to see jellyfin/emby client here!
sashikknox
Sun, 2020/09/27 - 19:06
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Really cool! Sad, but i have emby ( no jellyfin for freebsd freenas