I have been using Wholphin over the official Jellyfin Android TV client for months now. I have trouble with some Dolby Vision content with the official one. Wholphin is able to play those files fine. Wholphin has an in app updater that makes it really easy to update. No need to touch the Play Store (or even have it enabled lol). I appreciate all the work that goes into Jellyfin and Wholphin allows me to get the most out of my server.
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2026
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I tried this for the first time a few days ago and it seems pretty good.
If you hold the selection button on a movie/show theres an option to "Play with transcoding" which helped solve a lot of problems for me when playing things on older hardware in situations where the official Jellyfin app would incorrectly try to direct play content that actually wasnt compatible.
Long history of releases and Bugfixes, No AI contributions at first glance ... Could it be?!
Disclaimer: I don't mind AI as a tool, I mind slop.
Love it, integrating jelly seer means my partner can just discover shows and add them
Holy crap, this looks amazing. Has anyone tried it?
I've been using it for a little while now - I prefer the UI of the official app, but Wholphin is the only way I can consistently and properly play everything in my library with 0 transcoding.
I have a ShieldTV+AVR setup that can handle every media format out there, but for some reason the default app always transcoded Atmos & DTS audio (or just refuses to play if I disable transcoding entirely).
Wholphin does not have this issue, and now everything plays flawlessly with 0 overhead.
Might be a jellyfin setting. I discovered that while the players report the device capabilities (with some caveats), some edge cases make the server still transcode video because it instructs certain formats to always transcode. There are too many variables and the server plays it safe. The biggest culprit is bitrate.
Have everything set to max (AndroidTV is wired, easy gigabit rates to NAS). I've tried literally every setting I can think of and it just continually spits back transcodes for DTS & DA content.
Doesnt matter if video is 4k HDR Remux or 1080p encode.
It's the second most commented open issue on the Jellyfin Android TV Github (https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-androidtv/issues/281). If you can crack the case you'll make a lot of people happy :D
I've been using it for a couple months. It's been great, for the most part
What about the lesser part... what happened?
On the Nvidia Shield the MPV backend doesn't really work, it has an issue with stuttering. Works great on my other TV, though. Besides that, just a few crashes early on, nothing recently, though.
I discovered wholphin several months ago and so far it's been fantastic for an Android tv client. The intent of the design is to be similar in UI to Plex and it achieves that very well even in it's early development.
I'd easily say it's the most polished client I've seen to date from a UI perspective even though I know there are some bugs people see (although they seem minor). For most people switching others from Plex to Jellyfin, the app is a great option.
We need a good tvOS client
That can be installed on any hardware, as opposed to just a TV directly. That I could get behind.
You misspelled spyos.
Infuse is great...
If you pay. I'd love an alternative tho
It is good, but I wouldn’t call it great
Neat, are there any other clients for Android TV aside from the official one?
Fladder was working on it, but last I tried it was still too unstable to use
Nice, I had no idea
I tried out Fladder, Moonfin, and Wholphin
- Fladder does load, but it crashes on certain pages for me. My guess is that my hardware isn't powerful enough to handle something that it's trying to do
- Moonfin and Wholfin are both beautiful with an intuitive UI. Between the two, I liked Wholfin the best. It has a preview when customizing the home page, which is very helpful compared to the back and forth guess and test with the other ones. I also prefer it's UI and default settings over the others
I replaced Findroid with Wholphin on ours
Can this be installed on Samsung TVs?