[Question] Codecs support?

[GrabbenD]

Hey there

I love the idea of wrapping the web interface since I'd like to have a consistent UI between Android TV and my Linux Desktop without having to compile code every time I'd like to make minor changes to Jellyfin Web. This leads me to these questions:

• How's the audio/video codecs support with this approach?
  • Is it identical to playing from a webbrowser?
  • Can you integrate MPV?

Would love to hear feedback from experienced users
@JonEllis

[JonEllis]

Hello. My use case was to mostly listen to music while gaining media key shortcut support - which has since worked from the browser. I've not used it in a little while, but from memory it worked just like using it in the web browser.
There might be ways to integrate further, I integrated with the player in the electron window to listen to change track events to show notifications - https://github.com/JonEllis/jellyfin-electron/blob/master/src/renderer/js/integration.js#L57-L63
I imagine it'd be possible to get the currently playing URL and pass it to MPV to play via the electron nodejs side - https://github.com/JonEllis/jellyfin-electron/blob/master/src/main.js#L58C2-L62C6.

[GrabbenD]

@JonEllis Thank you for the insights!

I'm planning to give it a shot today.
I came across this project which has hooks for integrating MPV playback support when creating the browser instance: https://github.com/Kagami/mpv.js/

Let's hope it goes smoothly 🙏

[GrabbenD]

My intention was to create a cross platform app with bundled Chromium to avoid inconsistencies with native components & to not re-create the interface.. However, it looks like Electron is mainly just for desktop apps. There's another project for this called Crosswalk from Intel but it's discontinued.

@JonEllis While reading your blog I noticed you mentioned iOS. Did you actually manage to get this Electron app running on your phone?