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Jellyfin — Desktop Player

The player for a Windows PC or a Mac, and the app for an iPhone or an iPad, for the film and TV library we already run. Pick your machine, install it, point it at our server, sign in.

The newest builds (2.0.0-dev)

This is Jellyfin Desktop — the current client, built from the project's own master branch on Jellyfin's own build service and handed out through the channel Jellyfin's page names for it. It is the newest client they have; every build replaces the last one, so the bytes under these buttons change and there is no fixed checksum to check them against.

Straight from Jellyfin's own build page — nothing here is re-hosted by us, and no mirror is in between.

The last stable release (Jellyfin Media Player 1.12.0)

If you want the version that has been out longest and misbehaves least, take these. They are the project's own release files, unchanged, and each one carries the SHA-256 of exactly the bytes you are about to get — the number printed here has to match the file you downloaded.

  • Windows — 64-bit installer
    File
    JellyfinMediaPlayer-1.12.0-windows-x64.exe
    Size
    149.1 MB (156,347,542 bytes)
    SHA-256
    ad1e39a997bcaca481e54f026f04bca324aecf7a84d00da1e7c43d1eb5ee7014
  • macOS — Apple Silicon (M-series)
    File
    JellyfinMediaPlayer-1.12.0-AppleSilicon.dmg
    Size
    177.5 MB (186,166,526 bytes)
    SHA-256
    272412af869f5278b93c16cda2657de3cda50e595a68a1c062b8dff5e40980bc
  • macOS — Intel
    File
    JellyfinMediaPlayer-1.12.0-Intel.dmg
    Size
    194.6 MB (204,054,209 bytes)
    SHA-256
    f6a75747c1234c929c968599cc927cfb27a0c00dfa9db9198d5b22b3090c4d34

Every file above lives on Jellyfin's own downloads page, and on the project's source at github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-desktop.

On an iPhone or an iPad

A phone has no installer to download: Apple hands the app out, and Jellyfin builds two iOS clients rather than one. Both are free, both open on the same server address, and both sign in with your own Jellyfin account. The difference that decides it is in the Needs row — the newer app wants a recent iOS, the older one runs on a phone that is a few years behind.

Nothing to check a checksum against here: Apple's store is the distribution, it decides which version you get, and it installs the updates itself. Both apps are free, both ask for the same server address as the desktop player, and both sign in with your own Jellyfin account — not the family SSO.

Both are Jellyfin's own clients, listed by the project at jellyfin.org/downloads/clients.

The one address it needs

On its first run the player asks which server to use. Paste ours — the same entry the family launcher uses:

https://jellyswarm.delarosafams.com

That is our own server. If you would rather point the player at the server itself, https://jellyfin.delarosafams.com works too — same library, same account.

Sign in with your own Jellyfin account (Jellyfin has its own sign-in — it is not the family SSO). Nothing else on your machine is touched, and no account is created anywhere but on our own server.

Before you run it

  • Windows says "Windows protected your PC" and names an unknown publisher. That is real and expected: Jellyfin does not code-sign these builds, so Windows has nothing to show you. Choose More info, then Run anyway. It is a warning about the missing signature, not a detection of anything.
  • macOS may refuse the app with "cannot be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software" or "unidentified developer". That is the same missing signature. Right-click the app and choose Open, then Open again — or allow it once in System Settings, Privacy & Security.
  • Check the file with the SHA-256 when there is one to check. The newest builds change every time Jellyfin rebuilds them, so only the last stable release below carries a checksum — for that one, the number printed on this page has to match the file you downloaded.
  • Sign in only inside the app, when it asks. Nobody in this house will ever ask you for that password in a chat, an email or a phone call.
  • The 2.0.0-dev builds are pre-release: they are the newest client Jellyfin has, and the most likely to have a rough edge. If anything misbehaves, install the last stable release below and tell us what happened.

To check a file you downloaded, in PowerShell:

Get-FileHash .\<the file you downloaded> -Algorithm SHA256

On a Mac, in Terminal:

shasum -a 256 ~/Downloads/<the file you downloaded>

Get it

  1. Press the button for your machine below. Windows: 64-bit installer. Mac: Apple Silicon if your Mac is an M1 or newer, Intel if it is older — Apple's menu shows which in About This Mac.
  2. The download is a .zip. Open it (Windows: right-click and Extract All) and you get the installer itself — the file name is printed under each button so you can see you got it.
  3. Run it. Windows will say it protected your PC, and macOS may say it cannot check the app — that is what every one of these builds does, and the next section says exactly what to click.
  4. Open Jellyfin Desktop. It asks for a server address on the first screen — paste the house address below.
  5. Sign in with your own Jellyfin account. Jellyfin has its own sign-in, not the family SSO, and Darren or Wilee sets the account up — ask and it takes a minute.

Works on: Windows 10/11 64-bit, macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel).

What you are installing

  • The desktop app for the library the family already watches — same account, same collection, same place in a series.
  • It plays more than the browser does: hardware decoding and audio passthrough, so 5.1 and subtitle-heavy files do not stutter.
  • Everything is served off our own hardware. No subscription, no store, nothing rented.
  • Windows and Mac both: pick the file for your machine — Apple Silicon and Intel are separate downloads.
  • No films are in the download — it is the player only. Your library stays on the house server.
  • No account, no payment and no storefront: the library is ours and the sign-in is Darren's own.

Questions

Ask Darren or Wilee. If the player will not start, or the library looks empty once you are signed in, that is our side, not yours — say so and one of us will fix it.