Wholphin

Damontecres

About this app

Wholphin is an open-source, third-party Android TV client for Jellyfin. It aims to provide a great app user experience optimized for TV viewing.

This is not a fork of the official client. Wholphin's user interface and controls have been written completely from scratch. Wholphin supports playing media using ExoPlayer and MPV.

Wholphin supports Movies, TV Shows, Music, Photos and, Live TV & DVR.

Please note: In order to use Wholphin, you must have your own Jellyfin server set up and configured!

See more details at https://github.com/damontecres/Wholphin

The video shown in screenshots is used under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license and is (c) copyright 2008, Blender Foundation / www.bigbuckbunny.org

Ratings and reviews

Absolutely the best app for accessing my media server. Made even better recently with the addition of the ability to use external players like VLC. Not that I don't like the built in players, I actually prefer them, but they don't have the codec support like VLC does, I have lots of older stuff that won't play on the built in ones.

I wish this was available for other devices than TV, this is an amazing frontend for Jellyfin and has become my default. One of the few pieces of software where my family just instantly switched without any convincing.

I used Jellyfin for years now. Constant freezes, desynced subtitles, and lots of weirdness. I kept debugging the server, with no success, eventually just accepting that Android devices just don't play nice with Jellyfin servers. Installed this app, and all playback is flawless now. No freezes, subtitles work perfectly, instant playback start. it even has some really nice extra features (like fetch subtitles, a feature I really missed from my Plex days, and Seerr integration). Really nice work.

What’s new

Updates to v1.0.5

This release has many improvements and bug fixes:
* Improves audio & subtitle track selection logic
* Options during D-Pad seeking to show the minimal seek bar, seek bar w/ trickplay previews, or no seek bar
* Two new theme colors
* Updates libass-android with several bug fixes

https://github.com/damontecres/Wholphin/releases/tag/v1.0.5