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Jellyfin Media Player vs Jellyfin MPV Shim: catalog facts
Jellyfin Media Player	Jellyfin MPV Shim
Free Free and open source under the GPL.	Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0 licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows, Linux
libmpv playback with hardware decoding and audio passthrough, unlike a browser Direct plays formats a browser would force the server to transcode	Plays Jellyfin media through MPV Offline sync for watching without the server
Requires a Jellyfin server; it is not a general media player The last tagged release is from March 2025	Requires a Jellyfin server Not a full library browser on its own
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-2.0	License: GPL-3.0
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Needs internet	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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