What exactly is the usecase for this? Genuinely curious, as I've never needed this sorta functionality.
this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2026
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Great job. Video handling is always a pita
Thanks, you can really thank MediaBunny for that. This is just a lazily slapped together amalgamation of other dependencies.
If curious:
Cliparr is a streamlined media clipper that allows you to quickly create and download clips from the media currently playing on your Plex or Jellyfin server.
That's pretty cool. Nice UI. Seems simple to operate. I don't have a use case, but damn good job. Maybe a couple of screenshots on the github page. Thanks for sharing and the demo.
Any reason it wouldn't work with Emby too? Have had it since before there was a Jellyfin spun off so I've just rolled with it.
If Emby happens to have the same API surface as Jellyfin, you could use that. I doubt that works, I have not tried it.
Surprised people still stick with Emby.
I poked at Jelly a bit ago, but as I recall the auto organize was abandoned (kinda a big deal to me) and something about conversions being a problem. Basically I just didn't see anything that would make me inclined to go through the hassle of reworking what already works.
Sure, I feel that. Are you running the version before they changed the license or whatever was the thing back then?
I'm lucky in my situation I guess, that I only need local playback and direct play.
I'd gotten a lifetime premiere key, mostly for the ldap functionality at the time. Something I can buy once and use rather than subscribing to everything is always a winner for me.
Lots of things work better, so I am not.
I went with Plex for probably ten years after breaking with Emby. I ended things with them because they don't care about their customers at all. Bugs that break the experience completely that lie untouched/unnoticed/ignored for years, and no replies from the developers. Or even developers that just stop replying to these bugs.
Switched to Jellyfin this year and it works like a charm. Only thing is it isn't as good at noticing duplicates in my library, but other than that, works just fine. Definitely above acceptable.
I do a lot of remote sharing with friends and unfortunately it's not great for that.
Also the last time I checked it out the clients kinda sucked. Not even one for Apple TV
Swiftfin or infuse for AppleTV
Huh? I watch my Jellyfin on AppleTV just fine.
Maybe there was one added since I last checked, or I'm just dumb. Good chance of the latter.
Edit: oh, 3rd-party clients? I had tried one but they wanted a fucking subscription fee
Nope. No subscription fee. Just the regular Jellyfin client. I run the server from my PC and watch on the client in my TV. All free.
Will try again. Though not having stupid simple friend sharing is still a dealbreaker for me
I tried it out while I was at a friends place (streaming remotely from two internet connections).
Even the sync play worked very well (the delay between pressing pause and it executing was about 1-1.5 seconds).
Almost better than watch2gether.
How were you connected from the remote connection to Jellyfin server?
Reverse proxy
Nice that you added jellyfin support, but does this work for remote jellyfin servers? I have docker on my pi but Jellyfin on my desktop.
I don't see why it wouldn't?