Gerbera: open-source free media streaming server for home

Gerbera is a free UPnP media server which allows you to stream your digital media through your home network and consume it on a variety of UPnP compatible devices.

Features

• Browse and playback your media via your network on all kinds of devices.
• Web UI with a tree view of the database and the file system, allowing to add/remove/edit/browse your media
• Metadata extraction from MP3, OGG, AAC, M4A, FLAC, wavpack, JPG (and many more!) files.
• Media thumbnail support
• Highly flexible media format transcoding via plugins / scripts
• Automatic directory rescans (timed, inotify)
• User defined server layout based on extracted metadata
• Supports last.fm scrobbing
• On the fly video thumbnail generation
• Support for external URLs (create links to internet content and serve them via UPnP to your renderer)
• Runs on Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and more!
• Runs on x86, ARM, MIPS, and more!

License

GPLv2

Copyright (C) 2005
Gena Batyan
Sergey Bostandzhyan

Copyright (C) 2006-2008
Gena Batyan
Sergey Bostandzhyan
Leonhard Wimmer

Copyright (C) 2016-2022
Gerbera Contributors

Resources

• https://gerbera.io/
• https://github.com/gerbera/gerbera