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It will be switched over to the CEF rewrite when a release is tagged in the CEF rewrite repo.

is broken rn

jellyfin-desktop currently appears broken on up-to-date Arch systems due to an mpvqt API/SONAME change.

Runtime issue after recent updates:

jellyfin-desktop: error while loading shared libraries: libMpvQt.so.2: cannot open shared object file

Current Arch mpvqt now provides:

libMpvQt.so.3

Attempting a rebuild against current packages then fails with:

error: cannot convert ‘QVariantList’ to ‘const QStringList&’

in PlayerComponent.cpp, e.g.:

m_mpv->command(command);

because the current mpvqt API now expects:

QVariant command(const QStringList &params);

instead of the older QVariantList usage.

Environment:

Arch Linux gcc 16.1.1 Qt 6.11.1 mpvqt 1.2.0-1

Looks like the package needs patching for newer mpvqt compatibility, or alternatively a dependency/version pin.

Thanks.

Keyboard shortcuts in Plasma Wayland arent working for me, and it doesnt appear inside the 'Media Player' applet in the system tray like spotify and firefox do. When troubleshooting i found playerctl lists it as JellyfinDesktop.profile_3f213055b47549cf940444ecc098d1dc but cant control it either.

The upstream qtwebengine issue is: https://qt-project.atlassian.net/browse/QTBUG-145344

Possible WIP fix: https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtwebengine/+/732747

When I run Jellyfin Desktop on my Hyprland setup, it flickers with a white screen and a loader that also keeps on flickering when I try to play any movie or episode. I can hear the sound in the background playing fine.

The issue seems to stem from qt6-webengine. Apparently downgrading to 6.10.2-2 solves it. Right now I'm running 6.11.0-5.

Another way I found that gets past this issue is to run this command in my terminal: QTWEBENGINE_FORCE_USE_GBM=0 jellyfin-desktop

That also gets past the issue even when using qt6-webengine 6.11.0-5.

Nevermind - uninstalling and installing the flatpak version works just great :)

Since updating to this version (previously used jellyfin-media-player) the software is unusable.

I've updated all packages, carried out the commands suggested and all I get when playing video back is either a black screen or white flickering. I tested Delfin which still works just fine. Any suggestions on repairing this would be appreciated. I tried rolling back to the deprecated version but it just won't install anymore. Is there a dependency I'm missing? I will have to use Delfin for the time being

After having a successfull installation,when i try to launch the program,it shows me the following output and close the process almost imidiately

$ jellyfin-desktop 
LIRC Socket Error :  QLocalSocket::ServerNotFoundError
vo/libmpv: No render context set.
cplayer: Error opening/initializing the VO window.
Violación de segmento     (`core' generado) jellyfin-desktop

The git variant no longer allows me to switch between the mpv player and the web player. I need both (live tv doesn't work on mpv). When I installed this version I cannot even open it, go a segfault.

btw sources should be renamed to avoid errors like those below for who use a shared source folder, like this

source=("jellyfin-desktop-qt-${pkgver}.tar.gz::https://github.com/jellyfin-archive/jellyfin-desktop-qt/archive/refs/tags/v${pkgver}.tar.gz")