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... Plex is horrible at consumer privacy! Emby just a perfect solution especially for NAS. While Plex logging and collecting data, Emby won’t and then device can go into sleep mode perfect. dzevel5 • Mar 2019 • 4 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree Agree A superb alternative to plex, much faster streaming start of the video over internet. Guest • Feb 2019 • 2 agrees and 4 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 • 11 agrees and 10 disagrees Disagree Agree enable subtitle, imdb sync, and more Dalcolli • Dec 2017 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree 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 • 5 agrees and 6 disagrees Disagree Agree open source and self authentication Guest • Jun 2017 • 1 agrees and 2 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 • 1 agrees and 5 disagrees Disagree Agree Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... BSD Windows Phone iPad Self-Hosted Apple TV Kindle Fire Playstation Roku Xbox Media Streaming Media Transcoding Asset Pipeline Apps with Chromecast Support ... Local server Optimized for Mobile Remote Media Access Remote playback Add a feature 130 Like
Universal Media Server Universal Media Server is a DLNA-compliant UPnP Media Server. It was originally based on PS3 Media Server by shagrath. No faffing about and less intrusive and no personal data shared like plex does. Guest • May 2019 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree ums is only a dlna server but plex serves the clients with custom apps, video transcoding and other features. Guest • Feb 2019 • 3 agrees and 7 disagrees Disagree Agree Extremely easy install. Completely seamless connection to Roku Media Player. Very lightweight, but fully functional. jebofponderworthy • Nov 2018 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux DNLA Server Configurable Dedicated Server Hosting Support for DLNA ... Support for IPTV Lightweight Media Transcoding Simple installation Add a feature 113 Like
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... Does not play local content, only paid online content. Guest • Oct 2017 • 15 agrees and 8 disagrees Disagree Agree Freemium Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Android Tablet Casting to TV Apps with Chromecast Support Cloud sync DNLA Server ... Legacy addons support Media library PS4 Streaming Stream video to Apple TV Add a feature 142 Like
Jellyfin Jellyfin is a personal media server. The Jellyfin project was started as a result of Emby's decision to take their code closed-source, as well as various... It's FOSS and they don't spy on you. No paywalls and 'Premium' packages. It's completely free. seczamotu • Oct 2019 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree free open source and has apps for all platforms Guest • Aug 2019 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Jellyfin is a very nice project with much potential. Unfortunately it lacks many client apps; there is only an android app in development. Guest • Mar 2019 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Free & Open Source. No invasion of privacy! Guest • Jul 2019 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Self-Hosted Media Streaming Ad-free Local server Media Transcoding ... Music Player Add a feature 26 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... totally different piece of software Guest • Nov 2017 • 6 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree 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 • 17 agrees and 5 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Apple TV Raspberry Pi Operating system Auto-identifies vids Based on Debian Designed for TVs ... Momentjs integration Music Player App Store Stream video to Apple TV Add a feature 74 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... Ampache is an audio server, while plex supports both audio and video (and it is heavily focused on video streaming) Guest • Feb 2018 • 4 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone ... Self-Hosted PHP Based on Laravel Support for MPD Music Player Music Streaming ... Self-hosted music Subsonic API Web-Based Support for WebDAV Add a feature 44 Like
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 Local server Media Streaming Music Library Music Streaming ... Play local content Streaming your own media Add a feature 86 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 … 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 • 3 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 7 disagrees Disagree Agree Free Open Source Linux Support for DLNA DNLA Server Lightweight Add a feature 47 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 Xbox Add a feature 44 Like
OpenELEC Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center (OpenELEC) is a small Linux based Just Enough Operating System (JeOS) built from scratch as a platform to turn your computer... Free Open Source Linux Raspberry Pi Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for IPTV Music Player Operating system ... TV Shows Add a feature 50 Like
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 Metadata Search TV Shows meta data support Vast format support Add a feature 33 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 18 Like
LibreELEC LibreELEC is ‘Just enough OS’ for Kodi, a Linux distribution built to run Kodi on current and popular mediacentre hardware. We are an evolution of the popular OpenELEC... Free Open Source Linux Music Player Add a feature 18 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 Music Player Add a feature 35 Like
Airflow An all-in-one solution for sending about any video from your Windows or Mac computer to your Chromecast or Apple TV. Nothing to do with Plex. This software just streams to your media devices. (Chromecast or Apple TV) fPortal • Sep 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree Agree Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Chromecast Apps with Chromecast Support Support AirPlay Does one thing and does it well Face detection ... Hi-fi sound News feeds Stream video to Apple TV Add a feature 28 Like
