A 3D VHS room for browsing a Jellyfin film library on a Mac
A Mac app built with Claude Code turns films on the owner's Jellyfin server into tapes on a shelf in a 3D room, played through a virtual VCR and TV.
Credits
- Reddit poster ParfaitDeli Source ↗
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The full story
A Mac app that turns films on its owner's Jellyfin server into VHS tapes on a shelf in a 3D room. You pick a tape, turn it over to read the back, put it in the VCR and it plays on the TV, streamed from the server; stopping points go back to Jellyfin, so Continue Watching stays in step with other apps.
It started in October as a website showing films from the Internet Archive. Claude Code then helped turn the same room into a Jellyfin client wrapped in a Mac app (Swift and WKWebView), including signing, notarising and updates; Codex helped with part of it.
It uses plain three.js and hls.js with no framework, and draws each tape's sleeve from the film's poster, caching it at two sizes to save memory.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: I built a 3D VHS room for my Jellyfin movies with Claude Code (free Mac app)Reddit poster: ParfaitDeliPosted
The maker's post in r/ClaudeAI describing the app and how it was built.