Self-hosted Media Streaming - Multimedia Streaming software

Multimedia streaming tools and software.

17 apps, ranked by GitHub stars weighted by maintenance health.

Alternatives to PlexAlternatives to Netflix

Jellyfin

Media server for audio, video, books, comics, and photos with a sleek interface and robust transcoding capabilities. Almost all modern platforms have clients, including Roku, Android TV, iOS, and Kodi.

Actively maintained ★ 59k GPL-2.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Kodi

Multimedia/Entertainment center, formerly known as XBMC. Runs on Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS and Windows.

Actively maintained ★ 21.4k GPL-2.0 ~$20/mo

MediaMTX

Ready-to-use, zero-dependency real-time media server and proxy to publish, read, record, playback and route video/audio streams over SRT, WebRTC, RTSP, RTMP, HLS, MPEG-TS, RTP.

Actively maintained ★ 20.6k MIT 🐳 Docker~$20/mo

Stash

Web-based library organizer and player for your adult media stash, with auto-tagging and metadata scraping support.

Actively maintained ★ 13.3k AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$20/mo

Kyoo

Innovative media browser designed for seamless streaming of anime, series and movies, offering advanced features like dynamic transcoding, auto watch history and intelligent metadata retrieval.

Actively maintained ★ 2.6k GPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$20/mo

µStreamer

Lightweight and very quick server to stream MJPEG video from any V4L2 device to the net.

Actively maintained ★ 2k GPL-3.0 ~$20/mo

Meelo

Personal Music Server, designed for collectors and music maniacs.

Actively maintained ★ 1.4k GPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$20/mo

Gerbera

UPnP Media Server, which allows you to stream your digital media throughout your home network and listen to/watch it on a variety of UPnP compatible devices.

Actively maintained ★ 1.4k GPL-2.0 🐳 Docker~$20/mo

NymphCast

Turn your choice of Linux-capable hardware into an audio and video source for a television or powered speakers (alternative to Chromecast).

Maintained ★ 2.6k BSD-3-Clause ~$20/mo

MistServer

Public domain streaming media server that works with any device and any format.

Actively maintained ★ 520 Unlicense 🐳 Docker~$20/mo

mikochi

Browse remote folders, upload files, delete, rename, download and stream files to VLC/mpv.

Actively maintained ★ 379 MIT 🐳 Docker~$20/mo

Karaoke Eternal

Host awesome karaoke parties where everyone can easily find and queue songs from their phone's browser. The player is also fully browser-based with support for MP3+G, MP4 and WebGL visualizations.

Maintained ★ 925 ISC 🐳 Docker~$20/mo

ClipBucket

Start your own video sharing website (YouTube/Netflix Clone) in a matter of minutes.

Actively maintained ★ 183 AAL 🐳 Docker~$20/mo

cmyflix

Minimalist Plex/Jellyfin alternative to stream video.

Maintained ★ 195 AGPL-3.0 ~$20/mo

Icecast 2

Streaming audio/video server which can be used to create an Internet radio station or a privately running jukebox and many things in between.

Health unknown GPL-2.0 ~$20/mo

Rygel

UPnP AV MediaServer that allows you to easily share audio, video, and pictures. Media player software may use Rygel to become a MediaRenderer that may be controlled remotely by a UPnP or DLNA Controller.

Health unknown LGPL-2.1 ~$20/mo

üWave

Collaborative listening platform. Users take turns playing media—songs, talks, gameplay videos, or anything else—from a variety of media sources like YouTube and SoundCloud.

Health unknown MIT ~$20/mo

Related categories

Media Streaming - Video StreamingMedia Streaming - Audio StreamingMedia Management