Emby Emby, formerly Media Browser, is a media aggregator plugin for Media Center that takes your recorded, digital, or ripped media and presents it in a simple, easy to use... Freemium $ $ $ Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... BSD Windows Phone iPad Self-Hosted Apple TV Kindle Fire Playstation Roku Xbox Media Streaming Chromecast support Remote Media Access Remote playback Add a feature 122 Like Exactly like Plex, but without the central server for connections. Alos, takes longer for updating the files information for the first time. Has lot more configurations available. Guest • Jul 2017 • 4 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree Agree Very good alternative to Plex media server and free multi-user (for Plex one needs a Plex account first and a Plex pass). Guest • Oct 2017 • 5 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree don't need to authenticate with an outsource server, the problem emerges when a network like Iran filter the server like Iran and PLEX Guest • Feb 2017 • 0 agrees and 5 disagrees Disagree Agree
Stremio Media center allowing to watch movies, series, YouTube channels instantly. You can watch in HD, with subtitles, and easily cast any file to TV through DLNA, Chromecast... Free Personal Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Android Tablet Casting to TV Chromecast support Cloud sync DNLA Server Add a feature 117 Like Does not play local content, only paid online content. Guest • Oct 2017 • 8 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree
Universal Media Server Universal Media Server is a DLNA-compliant UPnP Media Server. It was originally based on PS3 Media Server by shagrath. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux DNLA Server Support for DLNA Support for Iptv Add a feature 102 Like
OSMC OSMC (Open Source Media Center) is a free and open source media player based on Linux and founded in 2014 that lets you play back media from your local network, attached... Free Open Source tvOS Raspberry Pi Based on Debian Add a feature 74 Like From the FAQ of the project: What is the difference between OSMC and Kodi? Kodi is a media center application and OSMC is the operating system that runs Kodi and brings it to your device. OSMC is not a fork of Kodi but rather a Linux distribution that ships Kodi as the main application. Guest • Jul 2016 • 11 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree Agree
Subsonic Subsonic is a free, web-based media streamer, providing ubiquitous access to your music and video. Use it to share your music with friends, or to listen to your own... Freemium Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Windows Phone Self-Hosted Media Streaming Music Library Play local content Streaming your own media Add a feature 82 Like
Serviio Serviio is a free media server. It allows you to stream your media files (music, video or images) to any DLNA-certified renderer device (e.g. a TV set, Bluray player... Freemium Mac Windows Linux Create PlayList Support for DLNA Media Streaming Raw Photo processing ... Stream audio Support for subtitles Add a feature 44 Like
MiniDLNA MiniDLNA (aka ReadyDLNA) is server software with the aim of being fully compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients. It is developed by a NETGEAR employee … Free Open Source Linux Support for DLNA DNLA Server Lightweight Add a feature 46 Like Plex is too commercial too many nags - also smart tv apps are variable SAMSUNG smart tv app hasn't worked for years :( Guest • Sep 2017 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Overly complicated and conditional 'compiling' required. A very out-dated approach for today. Much as I hate Plex, this doesn't come close to its convenience, power, and simplicity in execution. Guest • Dec 2017 • 1 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree
Infuse Ignite your video content with Infuse – the beautiful way to watch almost any video format on your iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV. No need to convert files! Infuse is... Freemium $ $ $ iPhone iPad Apple TV Support for DLNA TV Shows meta data support Add a feature 31 Like
Ampache Ampache is a web based audio streaming application and file manager allowing you to access your music from anywhere, using almost any internet enabled device. Common... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Self-Hosted PHP Support for MPD Self-hosted music Web-Based Support for WebDAV Add a feature 39 Like Ampache is an audio server, while plex supports both audio and video (and it is heavily focused on video streaming) Guest • Feb 2018 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree
Madsonic Madsonic is a web-based media streamer and jukebox fork of Subsonic Based on Java technology, Madsonic runs on most platforms... Freemium Mac Windows Linux Web Android ... iPhone Android Tablet BSD iPad Self-Hosted Kindle Fire Dedicated Server Hosting Support for Multiple Users Multiple Account support Music Library ... Stream audio Web-Based Add a feature 18 Like
Playon PlayOn is both browser and media server for your Windows PC which lets you magically stream your favorite shows, movies, even your personal media from your PC to your... Commercial Windows Android iPhone Blackberry Android Tablet ... iPad Blackberry 10 Support for DLNA Add a feature 14 Like
HomeNet Local Media Server HomeNet Local Area Network Media Server - lightweight alternative to Plex - ( HTML5 + Chromecast support ) A relatively simple, minimalist, lightweight media center... Free Mac Windows Linux Chrome OS Self-Hosted ... PHP No features added Add a feature 14 Like
LeonFlix A multi-platform desktop app for watching movies and TV shows.Leonflix is a search tool for movies and TV shows. It scrapes video/file hosting websites and has the... Free Mac Windows Linux Spotlight Track movies Tv shows Add a feature 11 Like
JRiver Media Center JRiver Media Center is a multimedia application that allows the user to play and organize various types of media on a computer running Windows. Media Center is a... Commercial Mac Windows Configurable Music Library Add a feature 34 Like
MediaTomb MediaTomb is an open source (GPL) UPnP MediaServer with a nice web user interface, it allows you to stream your digital media through your home network and listen... Free Open Source Mac Linux DNLA Server Media Streaming Add a feature 27 Like Discontinued Shut down per notice on homepage, but has been forked via http://alternativeto.net/software/gerbera/ See http://mediatomb.cc/
