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WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
- Synthetic7346 6mo agoI can't believe the wifi got a client before ps5
- gkhartman 6mo agoHonestly surprised it took this long. I guess it's less than ideal, since the wii doesn't support modern tv resolutions.
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- dmonitor 6mo agoThe Wii supports 240p, though, which is very hard to replicate these days.
- Acrobatic_Road 6mo agoOr 480i if you want to watch classic anime on a CRT.
- NathanielK 6mo agoIt can't really decode 480p/i very well. The fact that it has component video out makes it a swiss army knife for everything else 240p/480i/480p.
- ssl-3 6mo agoIndeed. I watched a backup of a [480p24] DVD movie with a (hacked) Wii quite a long time ago, as a fallback after the PS3 I was using got tripped up on that film's Cinavia[1] watermarks. The Wii worked OK-ish, but it was evident that it was barely keeping up with decoding the MPEG 2 video from the disc and putting it on the screen. Perhaps there is or was better software for that job, but there were some glitches and brief hangs. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia
- Forgeties79 6mo agoMan what can’t you do with a Wii? Didn’t someone post an article the other detailing how they booted Mac OS X on it?
- dddddaviddddd 6mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691730 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691730
- Forgeties79 6mo agoLove it
- shrinks99 6mo agoNoticed that Jellyfin had inched out Plex when sorting by popularity on the TrueNAS app catalogue the other day (45,178 installs vs Plex's 42,225). The existance of this project seems to confirm that the dev ecosystem around it is getting stronger!
- monocasa 6mo agoAnd that plex really pissed off the community by changing its pricing model.
- altmanaltman 6mo agoI started out my home server journey with Plex but it just kept getting worse, forcing me to switch to Jellyfin, which imo works just as well and seems to not fall into the whole pay us to stream your media business practice yet. Paywalling such a core feature was pretty harsh
- shiroiuma 6mo agoIt may seem "harsh", but this is simply the reality of using proprietary software. You don't have any control over it, and unless you stick with a particular version, it can change at any time (sometimes called a "rugpull"). And with anything internet-connected, it's not usually a good idea to stick with an old version because of security issues. With open-source software, this just isn't a problem. Even if the company behind it decides to turn evil, the community can fork it and continue on. Just look at Emby for example: it did a rugpull and changed to a proprietary license, so the community forked it and made Jellyfin.
- tech234a 6mo agoCan anyone comment on the security of Jellyfin? When I had last looked into it, it seemed like Jellyfin had a somewhat weak security model that made me question switching family members to it from Plex.
- heavyset_go 6mo agoDon't expose it to the internet unless you know what you're doing, or put it on a VPS you don't care about. Ideally keep it behind a VPN and give your family members access to it that way, and let local devices on your LAN connect to it without a VPN.
- lamasery 6mo agoForced server transcoding for everything. Ouch. Thought maybe at least mpeg2 or something would play directly.
- mystraline 6mo agoIntel ARC 380's are ideal at 4k realtime transcoded streams. And theyre cheap as well. You could probably do a sticky round robin reverse proxy with a few backends doing transcode. The biggest issue is bandwidth, but you probably knew that.
- haunter 6mo agoEven better is a passive cooled GPU like the Palit 3050 KalmX https://www.palit.com/palit/vgapro.php?id=5147 https://www.palit.com/palit/vgapro.php?id=5147 Too bad they are not producing them anymore
- mystraline 6mo agoAbsolutely not. Nvidia arbitrarily locks number of encodes between 2 to 5 streams, depending if you're willing to run hacked firmware and drivers. Multi-encoding on nvidia is a "professional card option" only. Intel's ARC line has no such arbitrary encode/decode limit. And they are significantly cheaper as well. https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/post-install/transcoding/hardware-acceleration/intel/ https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/post-install/transcoding/h...
- ruined 6mo agoit's 480p. every box i've used in the last two decades could do that on the fly without breaking a sweat.
- zamadatix 6mo agoThe Wii is just barely within the last 2 decades but it does very much struggle with 480p decoding of most anything (and even sweats a decent amount on 240p) as it was pretty low end for even 20 years ago.
- nout 6mo agoJellyfin is great in that it just works. I managed to install it on Samsung TV with Tizen OS and it has been just solid experience for many years now.
- nerptastic 6mo agoAgreed. I honestly chose Jellyfin over plex because I preferred the branding, not sure what I’m missing. I really enjoy Jellyfin, and thy seemingly have support for most devices in some way. My GF has it set up on her iPad, phone, computer. App is on our TV and has no issues. We have Netflix at home. She’s non technical and hasn’t had any trouble once I gave her a login. The only hiccup was when she tried to watch during one of her lectures. I had to explain that Jellyfin is only at home ;) (for now)
- lamasery 6mo ago> The only hiccup was when she tried to watch during one of her lectures. I had to explain that Jellyfin is only at home ;) (for now) Tailscale got me outside-the-home Jellyfin with a grand total of maybe 30 minutes of effort, including signing up, getting my server connected, and getting it on my MacBook, AppleTV, and phone. I'd never used it before.
- ZeWaka 6mo agoCombine with a $5 VPS and nginix reverse proxy to make this true for any device, even ones without tailscale!
- lamasery 6mo agoI’d not put Jellyfin on a public IP, even indirectly. I’d be surprised if it’s not full of exploits.
- einsteinx2 6mo agoThere was just another one recently actually. It was the final straw that convinced me to stop making my Jellyfin server publicly accessible (for my family abroad) and move to a VPN based solution instead (WireGuard or Tailscale I haven’t set it up yet).
- monocasa 6mo agoHas anyone tried to horizontally scale jellyfin to running on a multi node cluster? I'm wanting to set it up for around 20 households to share, and with transcoding that exceeds a single (cheap) node.
- rtpg 6mo agoFor hardware acceleration you might be interested in the remote hardware acceleration strategy... https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/post-install/transcoding/hardware-acceleration/#remote-hardware-acceleration https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/post-install/transcoding/h... The jellyfin DB itself is unfortunately sqlite instead of being DB agnostic. Maybe you could hack together something such that only one node handles writes and everyone else handles reads... if getting multiple cheap nodes gets your more bandwidth. I have to imagine that jellyfin fairly quickly stops being in charge of the media stream directly. But yeah I think the transcoding and the size of your data pipe is the only "hard" part. The DB read/writes themselves are going to not be an issue (I think)
- circularfoyers 6mo agoThe database changes late last year is laying the grounds for other database engines[1]. [1] https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-release-10.11.0/#the-library-database-conversion-to-ef-core-is-complete https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-release-10.11.0/#the-lib...
- chneu 6mo agoIf Jellyfin ever fixes the mountain of bugs from the "upgrade". They aren't even acknowledging major bugs that make Jellyfin unusable for like 20% of users. Do not upgrade Jellyfin if you have a sizeable library. Backup first if you do.
- heavyset_go 6mo agoYes, it was annoying, SQLite sucks as single source of truth for clusters, and it cost less than $100 to just buy hardware that can handle multiple high res transcoding sessions at once, but not 20 households' worth.
- zdw 6mo agoIt would be great to get one of these that supports the OpenSubsonic API, which has become a defacto standard for opensource music servers. Would be music-only, which is sometimes ideal for older devices.
- sbinnee 6mo agoI love this kind of project. I am pretty sure the developer had a Wii console sitting around somewhere and thought about how to make it useful again. Wait, I have a PS2 sitting around somewhere…
- poglet 6mo agoIf you're using Dolphin, it may be worth testing Better-Wii-Menu-DE (https://github.com/Gavin-S-Dev/Better-Wii-Menu-DE https://github.com/Gavin-S-Dev/Better-Wii-Menu-DE). You could probably have your Wii computer boot directly into Jellyfin using a startup shortcut with 'dolphin-emu -e WiiFin.dol', then switch out of the app to play Wii games using the better menu app. Then you can your Wiimote for both media + gaming with out needing a keyboard / mouse.
- aidenn0 6mo agoNow we just need a tvOS client that can play music...
- OuterVale 6mo agoI built a little Jellyfin plugin for KOReader [1] so I can access my books from my Kindle. Jellyfin proved really nice to work with (though there was some poorly documented auth stuff they were in the process of deprecating). If anyone has been thinking of building something in the Jellyfin ecosystem, I very much recommend it. [1]: https://github.com/DeclanChidlow/KOReader-Jellyfin-Plugin/ https://github.com/DeclanChidlow/KOReader-Jellyfin-Plugin/
- agarmash 6mo agoIt absolutely should be ported to GameCube and be called DolFin (the GameCube's codename is Dolphin)
- _joel 6mo agoNever realised Wii had a .WAD format. I guess it can run doom though :)
- aayushdutt 6mo agoReally looking forward to a Jellyfin client on PS5
- aquova 6mo agoSpeak of the devil, I was just looking for something just like this earlier this week. I may have even have ran into this exact project, but it didn't have functioning playback until now. I have a spare CRT in my office that I use for some old consoles, and thought it would be neat to stream some 4:3 media onto it, but didn't want to bother with getting some client box and HDMI to composite converter. If this works well, it would solve that problem nicely.
- hnarn 6mo agoWe really got a client for the Nintendo Wii before a usable one for tvOS.
- clayhacks 6mo agoYeah, I’ve been beta testing the Streamyfin tvOS app. it’s now about on par with the official tvOS client, but feels like it’s making more progress regularly
- xdertz 6mo agothere is swiftfin wich is OSS but is a bit buggy or Infuse which is a subscription but seems to play everything.
- hungryhobbit 6mo agoBut can it still play Wii games?