WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii

Synthetic7346

I can't believe the wifi got a client before ps5

Forgeties79

Man what can’t you do with a Wii? Didn’t someone post an article the other detailing how they booted Mac OS X on it?

shrinks99

Noticed that Jellyfin had inched out Plex when sorting by popularity on the TrueNAS app catalogue the other day (45,178 installs vs Plex's 42,225). The existance of this project seems to confirm that the dev ecosystem around it is getting stronger!

lamasery

Forced server transcoding for everything. Ouch. Thought maybe at least mpeg2 or something would play directly.

nout

Jellyfin is great in that it just works. I managed to install it on Samsung TV with Tizen OS and it has been just solid experience for many years now.

monocasa

Has anyone tried to horizontally scale jellyfin to running on a multi node cluster? I'm wanting to set it up for around 20 households to share, and with transcoding that exceeds a single (cheap) node.

zdw

It would be great to get one of these that supports the OpenSubsonic API, which has become a defacto standard for opensource music servers. Would be music-only, which is sometimes ideal for older devices.

sbinnee

I love this kind of project. I am pretty sure the developer had a Wii console sitting around somewhere and thought about how to make it useful again. Wait, I have a PS2 sitting around somewhere…

poglet

If you're using Dolphin, it may be worth testing Better-Wii-Menu-DE ( https://github.com/Gavin-S-Dev/Better-Wii-Menu-DE ). You could probably have your Wii computer boot directly into Jellyfin using a startup shortcut with 'dolphin-emu -e WiiFin.dol', then switch out of the app to play Wii games using the better menu app. Then you can your Wiimote for both media + gaming with out needing a keyboard / mouse.

aidenn0

Now we just need a tvOS client that can play music...