WiiFin – A Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii

WiiFin is a Jellyfin homebrew client built specifically for the Nintendo Wii. Written in C++, it uses GRRLIB and MPlayer CE, aiming for a lightweight media browsing and playback experience tailored to the console.

Its status is experimental, and there may still be rough edges on actual hardware.

Supported features are as follows.

• Login: username/password or QuickConnect
• Saved profiles: store multiple accounts, keeping only tokens
• Library browsing: movies, TV, music with cover art display
• Detail view: synopsis, ratings, genres, cast, director, audio/subtitle track selection
• Continue Watching / Next Up
• TV show browsing: navigate seasons/episodes
• Video playback: server-side transcoding streaming
• Music playback: browse albums/tracks
• Player overlay: navigation bar, volume, next/previous episode, track switching, intro skip
• Playback progress reporting: send progress to the server
• HTTPS: mbedTLS-based, supports self-signed certificate
• Wiimote IR pointer and on-screen keyboard
• Background music for menus
• .dol for Wii / vWii and installable .wad provided

The constraints are also clear.

• No Direct-play support: all video is transcoded on the server
• No 5.1 multichannel audio support: stereo only
• Subtitle rendering must be burned into the video by the server

Building is done via ./build.sh, and the development environment requires devkitPro along with devkitPPC, libogc, wii-dev port libraries, and for graphics GRRLIB, libpngu, freetype, libjpeg. To enable video playback, MPlayer CE must optionally be built as libmplayer.a.