Jellyfin Desktop

July 29, 2026 ยท View on GitHub

Jellyfin desktop client built with Qt WebEngine and libmpv. Supports audio passthrough, hardware decoding, and playback of more formats without transcoding.

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Built from the latest commit on master.

macOS

Windows

Linux

Building

See dev/ for platform-specific build instructions.

File Locations

Data is stored per-profile in a profiles/<profile-id>/ subdirectory. The main configuration file is jellyfin-desktop.conf. You can also add mpv.conf to configure MPV directly.

Windows:

  • Config: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Jellyfin Desktop\profiles\<profile-id>\
  • Cache: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Jellyfin Desktop\profiles\<profile-id>\
  • Logs: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Jellyfin Desktop\profiles\<profile-id>\logs\

Linux:

  • Config: ~/.local/share/jellyfin-desktop/profiles/<profile-id>/
  • Cache: ~/.cache/jellyfin-desktop/profiles/<profile-id>/
  • Logs: ~/.local/share/jellyfin-desktop/profiles/<profile-id>/logs/

Linux (Flatpak):

  • Config: ~/.var/app/org.jellyfin.JellyfinDesktop/data/jellyfin-desktop/profiles/<profile-id>/
  • Cache: ~/.var/app/org.jellyfin.JellyfinDesktop/cache/jellyfin-desktop/profiles/<profile-id>/
  • Logs: ~/.var/app/org.jellyfin.JellyfinDesktop/data/jellyfin-desktop/profiles/<profile-id>/logs/

macOS:

  • Config: ~/Library/Application Support/Jellyfin Desktop/profiles/<profile-id>/
  • Cache: ~/Library/Caches/Jellyfin Desktop/profiles/<profile-id>/
  • Logs: ~/Library/Logs/Jellyfin Desktop/<profile-id>/