If curious:
Cliparr is a streamlined media clipper that allows you to quickly create and download clips from the media currently playing on your Plex or Jellyfin server.
this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2026
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That's pretty cool. Nice UI. Seems simple to operate. I don't have a use case, but damn good job. Maybe a couple of screenshots on the github page. Thanks for sharing and the demo.
What exactly is the usecase for this? Genuinely curious, as I've never needed this sorta functionality.
- memes/reaction gifs / social media
- content creation/reviews (youtube, tiktok)
- reference/research
Great job. Video handling is always a pita
Thanks, you can really thank MediaBunny for that. This is just a lazily slapped together amalgamation of other dependencies.
Nice that you added jellyfin support, but does this work for remote jellyfin servers? I have docker on my pi but Jellyfin on my desktop.
I don't see why it wouldn't?
You should probably add a section on how to remap the ports if need be, port 3000 is pretty common and unlikely to be free on most setups that run more than a handful of containers.
I for sure am not figuring it out since I seem to be stuck in a loop where Jellyfin correctly replies to the login request (at least if its logs are to be believed) and then cliparr boots me back to the source selection screen.
ETA: the issue seems to be with using HTTP instead of HTTPS, quite annoying not to get any error messages to that effect, even though they can be found in the browser console.
Agreed. Also sorry, that bug has already been fixed but I haven't merged it yet. My Plex server died and I couldn't test it. There is a PR now if you are interested in trying it out. Otherwise I expect to have it merged in the next 2-3 days, just got the part to fix my server.
Hey, nothing to be sorry about, you're doing this for free and were quick to fix the issue too. Thanks, I'll give this a spin!
Just published the fix
I tried it but I get the following error
Cliparr could not open any playback stream. Preview stream failed: Cannot decode avc video in this browser. Cannot decode aac audio in this browser. Source stream failed: Cannot decode avc video in this browser. Cannot decode aac audio in this browser.
I'm honestly unsure of how to troubleshoot since I don't really get what the problem is, the browser works fine with jellyfin, tried a handful of videos and in both firefox and chromium. I'm not knowledgeable enough to solve it.
Appreciate this. This already helps. This should be rare, only applying to AVC videos. You mentioned it happens on multiple videos, though? Good news is this will be fixed either way pretty soon because I am switching from using the original video file for the stream to using the HLS stream, so if it plays in the media player, it will definitely play in Cliparr.
Until then, it does look like AVC should work already though, so I will give that a deeper look.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| HTTPS | HTTP over SSL |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption |
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.
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Can't get it to connect to Plex, it just fails after authenticating.
We figured it out. fix coming in a few minutes.