Jellyfin

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Jellyfin
Developer(s) Jellyfin Team
Initial releaseDecember 30, 2018;6 years ago (2018-12-30)
Stable release
10.10.7 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 5 April 2025;4 months ago (5 April 2025)
Repository
Written in C# (server)
Operating system Cross-platform
Platform Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, iPadOS, Amazon Fire TV, Kodi, Roku, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Docker
Available in Multiple languages
Type Media server
License GPLv2
Website jellyfin.org   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Jellyfin is a free and open-source media server and suite of multimedia applications designed to organize, manage, and share digital media files to networked devices. Jellyfin consists of a server application installed on a machine running Linux, Microsoft Windows, or macOS; and another application running on a client device such as a smartphone, tablet, smart TV, streaming media player, game console or in a web browser. Jellyfin also can serve media to DLNA and Chromecast-enabled devices. It is a fork of Emby. [2]

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Features

Jellyfin follows a client–server model that allows multiple users and clients to connect and stream digital media remotely. Because Jellyfin runs as a self-contained server, there is no subscription-based consumption model, and Jellyfin does not utilize an external connection nor third-party authentication for this functionality. This enables Jellyfin to work on an isolated intranet in much the same fashion as it does over the Internet. Because it shares a heritage with Emby, some clients for that platform are unofficially compatible with Jellyfin; however, as Jellyfin's codebase diverges from Emby, this becomes less possible. Jellyfin does not support a direct migration path from Emby. [3]

Jellyfin is extensible, and optional third-party plugins exist to provide additional feature functionality. The project hosts an official repository, although plugins need not be hosted in the official repository to be installable. [4]

Version 10.6.0 of the server software introduced a feature known as "SyncPlay", which provides functionality for multiple users to consume media content together in a synchronized fashion. Support to read epub-format ebooks with Jellyfin was also added, together with support for third-party plugin repositories, allowing users to create and install plugins without the need for the official repository. The web front-end has been split off in a separate system, in anticipation of the move towards a SQL back-end and high availability with multiple servers. [5]

Jellyfin can be run in a Docker container. [6]

Clients

There are a number of Jellyfin clients that can be used to connect to a Jellyfin server via HTTP port 8096 or HTTPS port 8920 (in the default configuration). [7] Jellyfin also can serve media to DLNA and Chromecast-enabled devices. [8]

Some notable clients include: [9]

Development

The project began on December 8, 2018, when co-founders Andrew Rabert and Joshua Boniface, among other users, agreed to fork Emby in reaction to closing of open-source development on that project. [11] Jellyfin's name, a reference to streaming, was conceived of by Rabert the following day. [12] An initial release was made available on December 30, 2018.

Version history

Jellyfin's unique version numbering began with version 10.0.0 in January 2019.

Major versionRelease dateNotes
Latest version:10.10.0October 27, 2024 [13] Media segments (e.g. chapters in video files), Dolby Vision HDR, deprecated x32 bit ARM, deprecated Raspberry Pi V4L2, deprecated network paths
Unsupported: 10.9.0May 11, 2024
Unsupported: 10.8.0June 11, 2022
Unsupported: 10.7.0March 8, 2021
Unsupported: 10.6.0July 19, 2020Introduction of SyncPlay feature and EPUB reading
Unsupported: 10.5.0March 8, 2020Hardware acceleration encoding and decoding support added for the Raspberry Pi
Unsupported: 10.4.0October 6, 2019
Unsupported: 10.3.0April 19, 2019
Unsupported: 10.2.0February 16, 2019
Unsupported: 10.1.0January 25, 2019
Unsupported: 10.0.0January 7, 2019
Unsupported: 3.5.2-5December 30, 2018Only release to use original Emby version numbering
Legend:
Unsupported
Latest version
Future version

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Release 10.10.7". 5 April 2025. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
  2. ↑ "About Jellyfin". jellyfin.org. Retrieved 2025-07-11.
  3. ↑ "Migrating from Emby to Jellyfin". Jellyfin. Archived from the original on July 23, 2020. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Plugins". Jellyfin. Archived from the original on July 23, 2020. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
  5. ↑ "Jellyfin Release - v10.6.0". Jellyfin. July 19, 2020. Archived from the original on July 21, 2020. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
  6. ↑ "Jellyfin Docker Compose: Powerful FREE Media Server in 5 min". smarthomebeginner.com. 2023-03-17. Retrieved 2023-05-01.
  7. ↑ "Networking". jellyfin.org. Retrieved 2025-05-06.
  8. ↑ Anand (March 13, 2020). "Plex vs Emby vs Jellyfin vs Kodi: In-depth Comparison". SmartHomeBeginner. Archived from the original on July 13, 2021. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
  9. ↑ "Clients". jellyfin.org. Retrieved 2025-05-06.
  10. ↑ "Jellyfin for Xbox 0.9.0". jellyfin.org. 2025-04-15. Retrieved 2025-05-07.
  11. ↑ "Jellyfin: Free Software Emby Media Server Fork Is Announced After Emby Becomes Proprietary". Linux Uprising. December 19, 2018. Archived from the original on July 22, 2020. Retrieved July 22, 2020.
  12. ↑ "A new name for the project #2". Jellyfin via GitHub. August 9, 2018. Archived from the original on January 17, 2023. Retrieved July 22, 2019.
  13. ↑ "Release Blog for 10.10.0 | Jellyfin". jellyfin.org. 2024-10-27. Retrieved 2024-09-19.
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