Reel - A native GTK4/libadwaita media player for Plex and Jellyfin (early alpha)

Hi all, let me know if there’s a better place for this post.

I’ve been working on a media streaming app for GNOME, to use Plex and Jellyfin natively. If you know Infuse, then this is heavily inspired by it. I’m calling it Reel.

It’s written in Rust and GTK4, using libadwaita. I’ve got to a point where I can daily drive it, I’ve been watching my shows daily. It’s still a bit buggy and incomplete, but surprisingly capable. It has MPV and GStreamer support, mostly because GStreamer on my system doesn’t display subtitles correclty, would love some help to fix that. It’s offline first, but it’s not ready to work offline, right now it’s mostly caching stuff.

I wrote a bit about the motivation behind it in my blog and the code is available in Github. It’s not yet available on Flathub, I’m struggling a bit with my submission there, would love some help as well.

Would love some feedback, this is my first contribution to GNOME since a long time (like more than 10 years).

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Congratulations on your new application.

Unfortunately, you cannot use “GNOME Reel” or “gnome-reel” as the name, as “GNOME” can only be used by GNOME-affiliated project: Foundation/SoftwarePolicy – GNOME Wiki Archive

“Reel” is a perfectly fine name, no need to add “GNOME” to it.

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