Media Players & Servers

Stream a personal media collection to devices on a home network with Gerbera, a media server with optional on-the-fly transcoding.

Syncplay synchronizes video playback across media players so groups with the same videos can watch together over the internet.

NextPVR records, plays, and streams live television as a whole-home digital video recorder.

pyTranscriber generates automatic transcriptions and subtitles for audio and video files through a desktop app.

TRaSH Guides documents Radarr, Sonarr, and related media management tools, with guidance on settings and common questions.

Tunarr creates live TV channels from media on Plex or Jellyfin servers, with channel configuration through a web interface.

MDBList builds auto-updating movie and TV lists and syncs watchlists, ratings, and collections across supported services.

ErsatzTV turns a personal media library into custom live TV channels, with channel scheduling and an electronic program guide.

ThumbFast generates on-the-fly thumbnails for mpv and is designed to work alongside an interface script.

OSMC provides a free, open-source media center designed for organizing and playing personal media.

AVPlayer displays and controls up to 16 videos at once, with playlists and keyboard shortcuts for managing playback.

Enhance HTML5 video playback on web pages with h5player, a Tampermonkey script that also supports embedded players.

Mopidy serves music from local files, radio, and supported services, with control through MPD or web clients.

Browse extensions for AIMP, the audio player, on its official add-ons page.

Streama offers a self-hosted streaming media server, with setup instructions and documentation linked from the project.

WACUP emulates features of classic media players, with public preview builds for 32-bit and 64-bit systems.

Mzelo lets friends watch movies, YouTube, and anime together in synchronized rooms with chat, voice, and video hangouts.

Harmonoid plays and manages a personal music library through a dedicated music player.

Polsy.org.uk collects Let’s Play archiving information and links to alternative players for several video streaming sites.

Download PotPlayer, a multimedia player for Windows, with site downloads listed for Windows 7 through 11 and several processor types.

TimeStretch Player lets users loop audio sections and change their speed or pitch directly in the browser.

Tautulli monitors Plex Media Server activity and tracks statistics, with analytics and notifications described on its site.

Watch2Gether lets users create a room and watch videos together, with support for services including YouTube and Vimeo.

Play media from the command line with mpv, a free, open-source player supporting many formats, codecs, and subtitle types.