alt Hacker NewsWiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
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I 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/
Jellyfin 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.
Speak 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.
It absolutely should be ported to GameCube and be called DolFin (the GameCube's codename is Dolphin)
I 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…
Never realised Wii had a .WAD format. I guess it can run doom though :)
Forced server transcoding for everything. Ouch. Thought maybe at least mpeg2 or something would play directly.
Has 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.
Really looking forward to a Jellyfin client on PS5
It 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.
Man 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?
If you're using Dolphin, it may be worth testing 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.
Now we just need a tvOS client that can play music...
Noticed 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!