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Jellyfin Media Player

Jellyfin Desktop Client based on Plex Media Player.

  • Completely free
  • Windows
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Jellyfin Media Player is a media player, available on Windows.

Features described in its GitHub repository: hardware acceleration.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Jellyfin Desktop Client based on Plex Media Player” — Winget, 10 November 2026
  • “Jellyfin desktop client built with Qt WebEngine and libmpv.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Supports audio passthrough, hardware decoding, and playback of more formats without transcoding.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Jellyfin Media Player is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-2.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from LicitPro automatic classification () —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 9 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Manifeste Winget (MIT)

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