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Comment by alsetmusic | Hacker News Reader

This is what will get me to try this an a potential alternative to Plex. I need native apps to even consider a replacement. Glad this is here. Best of luck!

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I get the need for native apps on media centers, like Roku, Apple TV, etc. I do not understand why anybody would need a native app on desktop. Let alone an unofficial closed-source one from a dev that only has this to say:

> This is unofficial client for jellyfin app. For now macos only. Very early build. Expect any kind of crashes, issues and generally its good if it even runs.

Source: https://github.com/avdept/JellyBox

Neither Firefox nor Chrome support H.265 hw-accelerated decoding, and I don't want to use Edge. Using the app is a guarantee that I don't have to worry about the codec compatibility. I know it's an "Electron app so basically browser", but it's not, everything just works in the official Desktop app.

Chrome only has hardware decoding. Has done for a year.

Firefox is the only browser that won't play HEVC. Now AV1 is here, I guess we'll all move everything to that.

I'm working on this in my spare time, and making up readme file is the last thing on my list. If you're willing to help with readme I can surely provide you all needed information, screenshots and anything else you'd need

Can I ask why, out of curiosity? Does that remain true if it's built using the web version and electron (which this is)?

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