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Features Guide

Jellyfin Enhanced bundles dozens of features into one convenient plugin. This guide covers all available features and how to use them.

Content Management

🙈 Hidden Content System

Per-user content hiding with server-side storage and granular filtering controls.

Features:

  • Hide specific movies/series from all browsing surfaces
  • Hidden state stored server-side per-user
  • Survives browser/device changes
  • Management panel with search and bulk operations
  • Granular filter toggles for different surfaces
  • Undo functionality with toast notifications

Surfaces with Filtering:

  • Library views
  • Discovery pages
  • Search results
  • Calendar view
  • Next Up section
  • Continue Watching section
  • Recommendations
  • Requests page

How to Hide Content:

  1. Navigate to any item detail page
  2. Click the hide button (visibility_off icon)
  3. Choose hide scope:
    • Global - Hide everywhere
    • Episode - Hide this episode only
    • Show - Hide entire series
    • Next Up - Hide from Next Up only
    • Continue Watching - Hide from Continue Watching only
  4. Confirm the action

Management Panel:

Access via: - Enhanced panel → Settings → Hidden Content - Sidebar navigation (if enabled) - Custom tab (if configured)

Management Features:

  • View all hidden items
  • Search hidden content
  • Unhide individual items
  • Unhide all items at once
  • Group by series/movies
  • Filter by scope

Configuration:

  1. Open Enhanced panel (press ?)
  2. Go to Settings tab
  3. Find Hidden Content section
  4. Enable/disable the feature
  5. Configure filter toggles:
    • Show hide buttons on Seerr items
    • Show hide buttons in library views
    • Show hide buttons on detail pages
    • Filter library views
    • Filter discovery pages
    • Filter search results
    • Filter calendar
    • Filter Next Up
    • Filter Continue Watching
    • Filter recommendations
    • Filter requests page
  6. Choose integration method:
    • Plugin Pages (requires Plugin Pages plugin)
    • Custom Tabs (requires Custom Tabs plugin)

Performance:

  • Optimized with CSS classes instead of inline styles
  • Batched DOM visibility changes
  • Chunked API requests for parent series
  • Cached surface detection

Playback & Controls

⌨️ Advanced Keyboard Shortcuts

Comprehensive hotkeys for navigation, playback control, and more.

Shortcuts

Default Shortcuts:

Global:

  • / - Open Search
  • Shift+H - Go to Home
  • D - Go to Dashboard
  • Q - Quick Connect
  • R - Play Random Item

Player:

  • A - Cycle Aspect Ratio
  • I - Show Playback Info
  • S - Subtitle Menu
  • C - Cycle Subtitle Tracks
  • V - Cycle Audio Tracks
  • + - Increase Playback Speed
  • - - Decrease Playback Speed
  • R - Reset Playback Speed
  • B - Bookmark Current Time
  • P - Open Episode Preview
  • O - Skip Intro/Outro

Customization:

  1. Press ? to open the Enhanced panel
  2. Go to Shortcuts tab
  3. Click on any key to set a custom shortcut
  4. Changes save automatically per user

📝 Smart Bookmarks

Save timestamps and jump to specific moments with visual timeline markers.

Features:

  • Create bookmarks during playback with B key
  • Visual markers on video timeline
  • Add custom labels to bookmarks
  • Sync bookmarks across duplicate items (same TMDB/TVDB ID)
  • Manage all bookmarks from Custom Tabs interface
  • Export/import bookmark data

Usage:

  1. While watching, press B at any moment
  2. Add an optional label (e.g., "Epic scene")
  3. Bookmark appears as marker on timeline
  4. Click marker to jump to that timestamp

Bookmark Management:

  • Access via Custom Tabs plugin
  • View all bookmarks across library
  • Clean up orphaned bookmarks
  • Detect and merge duplicates
  • Adjust time offsets for synced bookmarks

🎬 Custom Pause Screen

Beautiful overlay with media info when you pause a video.

Pause Screen

Displays:

  • Media title and logo
  • Year, rating, runtime
  • Plot/description
  • Current progress with time remaining
  • Spinning disc animation
  • Blurred backdrop

Tip

Custom CSS available

⏯️ Smart Playback

Intelligent playback features for better viewing experience.

Features:

  • Auto-pause - Pause when switching browser tabs
  • Auto-resume - Resume when returning to tab
  • Auto-skip intros/outros - Seamless binge-watching (requires Intro Skipper plugin)
  • Playback speed control - Adjust speed with keyboard shortcuts
  • Auto Picture-in-Picture - Enter PiP mode when switching tabs

Configuration: Enable/disable in Enhanced panel → Settings tab

📝 Customizable Subtitles

Fine-tune subtitle appearance with presets and custom colors.

Presets:

  • Multiple font families
  • Size options (small, medium, large, extra large)
  • Background opacity
  • Text shadow options
  • Position adjustments

Custom Colors:

  • User-configurable text color with alpha support
  • User-configurable background color with alpha support
  • Live preview in settings
  • Computed text shadow for transparent/black backgrounds
  • Per-user customization

Usage:

  1. Open Enhanced panel → Settings
  2. Find Subtitle Presets section
  3. Select your preferred preset options
  4. Or use Custom Colors section:
    • Choose text color
    • Adjust text alpha
    • Choose background color
    • Adjust background alpha
    • Preview changes live
  5. Changes apply immediately

Discovery & Integration

🪼 Seerr Search Integration

Search, request, and discover media directly from Jellyfin's search interface.

Seerr

Features:

  • Search Seerr from Jellyfin search bar
  • Request movies and TV shows
  • View request status (pending, approved, available)
  • Auto-add requested media to watchlist
  • Sync Seerr watchlist to Jellyfin

Setup:

  1. Open plugin settings → Seerr tab
  2. Check "Show Seerr Results in Search"
  3. Enter Seerr URL(s) (one per line)
  4. Enter Seerr API Key (from Seerr Settings → General)
  5. Click "Test Connection"
  6. Enable optional features:
    • Add Requested Media to Watchlist
    • Sync Seerr Watchlist to Jellyfin
  7. Click Save

Requirements:

  • Seerr instance with API access
  • "Enable Jellyfin Sign-In" enabled in Seerr
  • Jellyfin users imported into Seerr

Jellyfin Sign-In

Icon States:

Icon State Description
active Active Seerr is successfully connected, and the current Jellyfin user is correctly linked to a Seerr user.
Results from Seerr will load along with Jellyfin and requests can be made.
noaccess User Not Found Seerr is successfully connected, but the current Jellyfin user is not linked to a Seerr account.
Ensure the user has been imported into Seerr from Jellyfin. Results will not load.
offline Offline The plugin could not connect to any of the configured Seerr URLs.
Check your plugin settings and ensure Seerr is running and accessible. Results will not load.

🎬 Seerr Item Details

View recommendations and similar items on detail pages.

Features:

  • Recommended items section
  • Similar items section
  • Request directly from recommendations
  • Exclude items already in library
  • Real-time request status indicators
  • Support for 4K requests
  • TV season selection

Setup:

  1. Configure Seerr integration (see above)
  2. Check "Show Seerr Recommendations and Similar items"
  3. Optional: Enable "Exclude already in library items"
  4. Click Save

Discovery Pages:

  • Genre-based discovery
  • Network-based discovery
  • Person-based discovery (actors, directors)
  • Tag-based discovery
  • All with TV/Movies/All filtering

Quick access to Sonarr, Radarr, and Bazarr (admin only).

Features:

  • Direct links to item pages in Sonarr/Radarr
  • Bazarr subtitle management links
  • Display *arr tags as clickable links
  • Filter and customize tag display

🔍 Streaming Provider Lookup

See where else your media is available to stream.

Elsewhere

Features:

  • Multi-region support
  • Buy, rent, and stream options
  • Provider logos and links
  • Powered by TMDB data

Usage:

  1. Enable in Enhanced panel → Settings
  2. Select your region
  3. View providers on item detail pages

✒️ TMDB Reviews

Display user reviews from TMDB on item pages.

Features:

  • Full review text
  • Author information
  • Rating scores
  • Review dates
  • Expandable/collapsible reviews

Setup: Enable "Show TMDB Reviews" in Enhanced panel → Settings

Visual Enhancements

🏷️ Quality Tags

Display quality information (4K, HDR, Atmos) directly on posters.

Supported Tags:

  • Resolution: 8K, 4K, 1080p, 720p, 480p, LOW-RES
  • Video Format: AV1, HEVC, H265, VP9, H264
  • Video Features: HDR, Dolby Vision, HDR10+, 3D
  • Audio: ATMOS, DTS-X, TRUEHD, DTS, Dolby Digital+, 7.1, 5.1
  • Media Stubs: BluRay, HD DVD, DVD, VHS, HDTV, Physical (for physical media files)

🎭 Genre Tags

Identify genres with themed icons on posters.

Features:

  • Material Design icons for each genre
  • Circular badges that expand on hover
  • Show up to 3 genres per item
  • Customizable position

🌐 Language Tags

Display available audio languages as country flags on posters.

Features:

  • Country flag icons from flagcdn.com
  • Show up to 3 unique languages
  • Positioned bottom-left by default
  • Also displays on item detail pages

⭐ Rating Tags

Show TMDB and Rotten Tomatoes ratings on posters and in player.

Ratings

Features:

  • TMDB star ratings
  • Rotten Tomatoes critic scores (fresh/rotten icons)
  • Stacked vertically on posters
  • Optional OSD display during playback
  • Color-coded by rating value

👤 People Tags

Display age and birthplace information for cast members.

Features:

  • Current age or age at death
  • Age at item release
  • Birthplace with country flag
  • Deceased indicator (grayscale + cross)
  • Caching for performance

Displays:

  • Age chips (top-left of cast cards)
  • Birthplace banner (bottom of cast cards)
  • Deceased styling (grayscale filter)

Personal Scripts

These are optional scripts from the developer's personal collection.

📡 Active Streams Widget

A live stream counter in the Jellyfin header that shows who is currently playing and what they're watching.

Features:

  • Stream counter icon in the header, colour-coded by state
  • Click to open a panel listing every active session
  • Poster thumbnails and user avatars per session
  • Direct Play vs Transcoding badges with codec and bitrate details
  • Playback progress bar with current position and total duration
  • Playing / Paused state badge per session
  • Clickable title links to the item detail page
  • Admin-only broadcast button to message all active sessions
  • Polls every 15 seconds; updates automatically while the panel is open

Header icon states:

Icon State
play_circle (no badge) No active streams
person + badge 1 One stream playing
group + badge count Multiple streams
pause_circle + badge count All streams paused
Red icon Failed to fetch sessions

Session card details:

Each card in the panel shows: - Poster thumbnail (series poster for episodes, movie poster for films) - Title and episode info (S01E01 · Episode Name) - Playing / Paused badge - Progress bar with elapsed / total time - Playback badges: Direct Play or Transcoding, video codec, bitrate, resolution, framerate - Transcode reason (e.g., "Video Codec Not Supported") when applicable - User avatar, username, client name, and device name - IP address (admins only)

Broadcast (admin only):

Admins see a megaphone icon (📣) in the panel header. Click it to open the broadcast form:

Field Required Notes
Title No May not display on all clients (web UI typically ignores it)
Message Yes Always visible; sent to every active session
Timeout Yes Seconds before the notification auto-dismisses (default: 10)

Setup:

  1. Go to Dashboard → Plugins → Jellyfin Enhanced
  2. Navigate to the Other Settings tab
  3. Enable "Active Streams Widget"
  4. Optional: Enable "Show to all users" to make the widget visible to non-admin users

Note

By default the widget is admin-only. Non-admin users see a read-only view (no broadcast button, no IP addresses) when "Show to all users" is enabled.

🎨 Colored Activity Icons

Replace default activity icons with Material Design icons.

Colored Activity Icons

Features:

  • Custom colors for each activity type
  • Material Design icon set
  • Better visual distinction

Configuration: Enable in Enhanced panel → Settings → Extras

🎪 Colored Ratings

Color-coded backgrounds for ratings on detail pages.

Colored Ratings

Features:

  • Different colors per rating type
  • Value-based color gradients
  • Supports TMDB, IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes

Configuration: Enable in Enhanced panel → Settings → Extras

🖼️ Login Image Display

Show user profile images on manual login page.

Login Image

Features:

  • Display user avatars
  • Cleaner login interface
  • Automatic fallback to text

Configuration: Enable in Enhanced panel → Settings → Extras

🧩 Plugin Icons

Replace default plugin icons with Material Design icons.

Plugin Icons

Features:

  • Custom icons for popular plugins
  • Add custom config page links
  • Improved dashboard aesthetics

Configuration: Enable in Enhanced panel → Settings → Extras

🎭 Theme Selector

Choose from multiple Jellyfin theme color variants.

Theme Selector

Features:

  • Multiple color palettes (Aurora, Jellyblue, Ocean, etc.)
  • Randomize theme daily option
  • Quick theme switching

Configuration:

  1. Enable in Enhanced panel → Settings → Extras
  2. Select theme from dropdown
  3. Optional: Enable "Randomize Daily"

Customization

🎨 Custom Styling with CSS

Extensive CSS customization options. See CSS Customization Guide for more details.

Available Customizations:

  • Pause Screen CSS
  • Quality Tags CSS
  • Genre Tags CSS
  • Language Tags CSS
  • Rating Tags CSS
  • Rating Tag OSD CSS
  • People Tags CSS
  • ARR Tag Links CSS
  • Enhanced Panel CSS

🖼️ Custom Branding

Upload your own logos, banners, and favicon.

Features:

  • Custom Jellyfin logo (header)
  • Custom splash banners (light/dark themes)
  • Custom favicon (browser tab icon)
  • Files stored in plugin config folder
  • Survives Jellyfin updates

Setup:

  1. Go to Dashboard → Plugins → Jellyfin Enhanced
  2. Navigate to Other Settings tab
  3. Find Custom Branding section
  4. Upload your custom images:
    • Icon Transparent (header logo)
    • Banner Light (dark theme splash)
    • Banner Dark (light theme splash)
    • Favicon (browser icon)
  5. Click Save
  6. Force refresh browser Ctrl+F5

Requirements:

  • Requires file-transformation plugin
  • Recommended image formats: PNG, SVG
  • Files stored in: /plugins/configurations/Jellyfin.Plugin.JellyfinEnhanced/custom_branding/

🌍 Internationalization

Multi-language support with community translations and automatic caching.

Supported Languages:

Translation status

How It Works:

  • Automatically detects Jellyfin user profile language
  • Fetches latest translations from GitHub on first load
  • Caches translations for 24 hours in localStorage
  • Per-version caching with automatic cleanup
  • Falls back to bundled translations if offline
  • Language code normalization (including region variants)

Translation Cache Refresh:

  • Server-side scheduled task runs on plugin startup
  • Automatically signals all clients to clear cached translations
  • Ensures fresh translations after plugin updates
  • No manual intervention required

Manual Cache Refresh:

  1. Open Enhanced panel (press ?)
  2. Go to Settings tab
  3. Find translation settings
  4. Click "Refresh Translation Cache" button

Contributing Translations:

See the Contributing Translations section for details.