Best self-hosted Media Streaming - Multimedia Streaming apps

Jellyfin

★ 53,564

Jellyfin is a fully free media server that organizes and streams your movies, shows and music to any screen. Unlike Plex, it has no features behind a subscription and no dependency on external servers.

Kodi

★ 20,885

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

MediaMTX

★ 19,220

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.

Stash

★ 12,522

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

NymphCast

★ 2,547

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

Kyoo

★ 2,474

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.

µStreamer

★ 1,998

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

Gerbera

★ 1,374

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.

Meelo

★ 1,148

Personal Music Server, designed for collectors and music maniacs.

Karaoke Eternal

★ 827

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.

MistServer

★ 502

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

mikochi

★ 364

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

cmyflix

★ 194

Minimalist Plex/Jellyfin alternative to stream video.

ClipBucket

★ 169

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

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.

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.

üWave

Self-hosted 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.