jellyfin/jellyfin-android

Features

• Remote Media Library Streaming - Streams a centralized personal library of movies, television shows, and music to remote mobile devices.
• Remote Media Streaming - Plays movies, television shows, and music from a remote server organized by season and artist.
• Custom Server Connections - Establishes a connection to a remote server instance to manage and stream content on a mobile device.
• Personal Media Library Interfaces - Provides a user interface for browsing and organizing digital collections of video, audio, and books on a remote server.
• Media Server Clients - Acts as a dedicated mobile client for connecting to and streaming content from a Jellyfin media server.
• Movie and Show Metadata - Retrieves movie and series details, ratings, and descriptions from external online databases.
• Android Media Playback - Utilizes ExoPlayer to handle diverse codecs and streaming protocols for high-performance media playback on Android.
• Chromecast Casting Clients - Sends content from a mobile device to a compatible television or speaker using a casting protocol.
• Cross-Platform Media Players - Provides a consistent playback experience across platforms with support for transcoding and external subtitles.
• Media Players - Implements a robust media player capable of handling direct streaming and remote transcoding for various codecs.
• FFmpeg Transcoders - Triggers remote media conversion via FFmpeg on the server when the client cannot natively decode the source.
• Media Transcoders - Converts media using FFmpeg when the client does not support the original codec or container.
• Android Media Frameworks - Implements a playback interface using Android media frameworks to stream and decode diverse video and audio formats.
• Token-Based Authentication - Implements secure session tokens to authenticate users and maintain persistent access to the remote server.
• Direct Play Capabilities - Streams media without conversion when the container and codecs are compatible with the client device.
• Digital Library Browsers - Provides a searchable and filterable browser for photo collections and digital documents hosted on a remote server.
• Multi-Device Playback Synchronization - Coordinates media playback state across multiple remote devices for simultaneous shared viewing.
• Media Servers - Deploys a media management system using pre-built binary packages across various operating systems.
• Subtitle Processing - Fetches external subtitle files from internet providers based on user language preferences.
• Embedded Subtitle Extractors - Extracts soft-subtitle streams embedded within media containers to ensure compatibility with the client.
• Media Progress Syncs - Synchronizes watch progress and playback history across different devices via the shared server.
• UDP Service Broadcasters - Uses UDP broadcasting to automatically discover Jellyfin server instances on the local network.
• Digital Publication Streaming - Accesses and displays books, comics, and magazines stored on a remote server.
• Live TV DVR - Integrates live television feeds and electronic program guides into the mobile client.
• Photo Galleries - Provides a gallery interface for browsing and organizing photo collections stored on the server.
• External Device Casting - Implements casting functionality to hand off media playback from the mobile device to external hardware like Chromecast.
• Local Network Discovery - Broadcasts and receives UDP messages to automatically identify server names and IP addresses within a local network.
• SSL/TLS Connection Security - Encrypts communication using SSL certificates to enable HTTPS access to the server.
• Remote Access Restrictions - Limits server connectivity to specific IP ranges and toggles external access permissions for users.

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