Media On Tauri

A lightweight Web Client wrapper with some extra features.

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Features

• Native Desktop Experience: Serves Any Media Web Client in a native desktop application.
• Fixes Plex Windows Arm's annoying bugs: No more skipping, black screen and stuttery UI!
• Optimized Performance: Built with Tauri for minimal resource usage and fast startup times.
• Change Url: Change the URL to any web client server you want. i.e tailscale VPN or local network
• Control Video Brightness Change video brightness with alt + [and alt + ].
• Picture in Picture Mode: Toggle between normal and picture-in-picture mode with a simple keyboard shortcut alt + P.
• Video Enhancement: Real-time GPU-accelerated sharpening with multiple presets including Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (CAS). See Video Enhancement Documentation.
• RTX VSR: Works with NVIDIA RTX Super Resolution, making your media extra crisp.
• RTX HDR: Works with NVIDIA RTX HDR, making SDR content better looking on HDR monitors.

Usage

1. Launch the application
2. Click "Continue to Web Client" on the welcome screen
3. Log in to your Plex account
4. If you're using plex, ensure Use alternate streaming protocol for video playback is disabled. Settings > Plex Web > Debug > Use alternate streaming protocol for video playback
5. Enjoy your media!

Installation

Pre-built Binaries

Download the latest release for your platform from the Releases page.

macOS

1. Download the .dmg file for your Mac:
   • Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4): Media.On.Tauri_x.x.x_aarch64.dmg
   • Intel: Media.On.Tauri_x.x.x_x64.dmg
2. Open the .dmg and drag "Media On Tauri" to your Applications folder
3. Since the app is not notarized, macOS will block it on first launch. To fix this, run:

   xattr -cr /Applications/Media\ On\ Tauri.app

Building from Source

1. Clone this repository
2. Make sure you have Rust and Node.js installed
3. Install dependencies: npm install
4. Build the application: npm run tauri build

Development

Prerequisites

• Rust
• Node.js
• Tauri CLI

Development Setup

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Start development server
npm run tauri dev

Recommended IDE Setup

• VS Code + Tauri + rust-analyzer

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgments

• Tauri for providing the framework to build this application