so, was installing the usual jellyfin-media-player flatpak on a new install as I did so many times, mistyped and was presented with a list of jellyfin related apps. there’s a new Jellyfin Desktop app in there that def wasn’t there before, has the official sounding org.jellyfin.JellyfinDesktop id.

installed it, looks the same. haven’t caught that in the news feeds I follow, so what’s the story there, what’s different from the iwalton3 thingy?

$ flatpak install jellyfin
Looking for matches…
Similar refs found for ‘jellyfin’ in remote ‘flathub’ (system):

   1) app/org.jellyfin.JellyfinDesktop/x86_64/stable  <-- new thing
   2) app/com.github.iwalton3.jellyfin-media-player/x86_64/stable  <-- old thing
   3) runtime/org.jellyfin.JellyfinServer.Plugin.IntelComputeRuntime/x86_64/stable
   4) app/org.jellyfin.JellyfinServer/x86_64/stable
   5) app/com.github.iwalton3.jellyfin-mpv-shim/x86_64/stable

edit: so far, works as drop-in replacement, functionality is the same and command line switches work (e.g. I have a shorcut that launches it in TV mode on a 4K screen with --fullscreen --tv --scale-factor 2). the UI is noticeably faster and it plays some HEVC files that were glitching out on same hardware.