{"repo":"jellyfin/jellyfin-server-macos","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-server-macos","clone":"git clone https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-server-macos.git","description":"The menu bar app and package for Jellyfin Server on macOS.","language":"Swift","stars":75,"topics":["macos","jellyfin"],"license":"MPL-2.0","category":"self-hosted-apps","readme_excerpt":"Jellyfin for macOS Part of the Jellyfin Project --- --- Jellyfin for macOS is a launcher/wrapper built in Swift and Objective-C. Getting Started Are you looking to just run and setup Jellyfin on your macOS machine? Go to https://jellyfin.org/downloads and get the macOS stable release. Do you want to build Jellyfin's menu bar app/launcher for yourself? Read on! --- Compiling the Menu App Requirements Xcode for macOS Steps 1. Clone or download this repository. 2. Open Jellyfin Server.xcodeproj with Xcode. Update version number and build. 3. Archive the app to a local directory. Usage The Menu app is designed to do three things: 1. Start and Stop a pre-packaged Jellyfin in the background 2. Open the Web UI 3. Open the Log Folder 4. Ensure that the Jellyfin binary is pointed to the packaged version of the web UI 5. Ensure that a cache folder exists before launching the server Building the Full Package Requirements The compiled menu bar app from above The latest Jellyfin macOS Combined package If you choose to build Jellyfin server on your own, you will also require: FFmpeg for macOS, or equivalent FFmpeg/FFprobe 4.4+. Steps 1. Ensure that a complete copy of Jellyfin Server is available in a folder. If using the combined package from above, proceed to the next step. If you are building Jellyfin from source, place a copy of ffmpeg in the same folder as the server binary. You need to add ffmpeg and ffprobe alongside jellyfin . Ensure that you also build jellyfin-web . If using a pac","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/jellyfin","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/jellyfin/jellyfin-server-macos/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}