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Jellyfin Media Player vs Tsukimi: catalog facts
Jellyfin Media Player	Tsukimi
Free Free and open source under the GPL.	Free Free and open source under GPL-3.0.
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	Native desktop Jellyfin client mpv playback with gpu-next output
Requires a Jellyfin server; it is not a general media player The last tagged release is from March 2025	Requires a Jellyfin server Primarily targets Linux
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-2.0	License: GPL-3.0
No account needed	Account needed
Needs internet	Needs internet
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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