Switchfin

Switchfin is third-party PC player for Jellyfin that provides a native user interface to browse and play movies and series.

This project is in its early stages so expect bugs.

Screenshots

Home	Library
Search	Episode
Music

Features

• Completely native interface
• Supported media items: movies, series, seasons, episodes
  • Direct play and transcoding
• Remote browser for Webdav/Apache/Nginx/FTP server
• Base on MPV Player
  • Container formats: mkv, mov, mp4, avi
  • Video codecs: H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, AV1
  • Audio codecs: Opus, FLAC, MP3, AAC, AC-3, E-AC-3, TrueHD, DTS, DTS-HD
  • Subtitle codecs: SRT, VTT, SSA/ASS, DVDSUB
  • Optionally force software decoding when hardware decoding has issues.

Input mapping during playback

• A Play/Pause
• B Stop during
• Y Toggle OSD
• X Show Menu
• R/L Seek +/-
• L Stick Button Toggle Speed Select
• R Stick Button Toggle Video Quality Select
• + Show video profile

FAQ

1. Q: Subtitles didn't display? A: Put any ttf file at /switch/Switchfin/subfont.ttf
2. Q: How to play media files on webdav server? A: Edit config file config.json

{
  "remotes": [
    {
      "name": "local",
      "url": "file:///switch"
    },
    {
      "name": "xiaoya",
      "passwd": "guest_Api789",
      "url": "webdav://192.168.1.5:5678/dav",
      "user": "guest"
    },
    {
      "name": "rpi",
      "url": "sftp//pi:raspberry@192.168.1.5/media"
    },
    {
      "name": "rclone",
      "url": "http://192.168.1.5:8000"
    }
  ]
}

• example for using rClone setup HTTP server

rclone serve http --addr :8000 --read-only /media/downloads

TODO list

• Movie view
• Series detail
• Search page
• Websocket connection (Syncplay)
• danmu plugin integration

Develop

git clone https://github.com/dragonflylee/switchfin.git --recurse-submodules --shallow-submodules

Building for Switch

To build for Switch, a standard development environment must first be set up. In order to do so, refer to the Getting Started guide.

sudo dkp-pacman -S switch-dev switch-glfw switch-libwebp switch-curl switch-libmpv
cmake -B build_switch -DPLATFORM_SWITCH=ON -DBUILTIN_NSP=ON
make -C build_switch Switchfin.nro -j$(nproc)
# for debug
nxlink -a <YOUR IP> -p Switchfin/Switchfin.nro -s Switchfin.nro --args -d -v

Building for MinGW64

pacman -S ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-cc ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-ninja ${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-cmake
cmake -B build_mingw -G Ninja -DPLATFORM_DESKTOP=ON
cmake --build build_mingw

Thanks to

• @xfangfang for wiliwili
• @devkitpro and switchbrew for libnx
• @natinusala and XITRIX for borealis
• @proconsule for nxmp
• @averne for great work of FFmpeg hwaccel backend
• @averne deko3d backend of mpv