Dispatcharr is a self-hosted IPTV stream proxy, electronic program guide manager, and DVR server that consolidates multiple M3U playlists and Xtream Codes providers into a unified live television and video-on-demand hub. Through its web dashboard, you can import and filter thousands of channels from unlimited upstream sources, automatically match XMLTV or Schedules Direct guide data to your lineup, and organize movies and series enriched with IMDb and TMDB metadata. The proxy streaming engine shares a single upstream provider connection across multiple local clients, switches seamlessly to backup stream URLs when buffering or drops occur, and routes backend traffic through FFmpeg, VLC, or Streamlink profiles with custom fMP4 or MPEG-TS output transcoding. To integrate with home media servers, Dispatcharr exports curated lineups as M3U playlists, XMLTV feeds, Xtream Codes API endpoints, or emulated HDHomeRun network tuners that Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, and Channels DVR discover automatically, while also offering a built-in DVR with series recording rules, Comskip commercial stripping, and timeshift catch-up playback. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

neTV turns any Xtream Codes or M3U IPTV subscription into a clean, fast player that you host yourself and open from a browser, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac, or Chromecast. The EPG grid guide shows what is on now and next, and catchup lets you browse earlier listings, replay a program from the beginning, or start over a show already airing, with timeline seeking whenever your provider keeps an archive. Intelligent Handoff lets you switch off the living room TV mid-match and resume on your phone from the exact moment you stopped, because the server keeps the stream going until the program ends. Movies and series arrive with metadata, seasons, episodes, and resume points, while search accepts regular expressions and favorites support drag-and-drop ordering alongside playlists that you build on the web and see in every app. Smart passthrough remuxes h264 and AAC streams without re-encoding, and NVENC or VAAPI hardware transcoding serves low-latency HLS to clients that need it. Owners of an NVIDIA GPU can switch on real-time 4K AI upscaling that lifts 1080p channels above 70 frames per second on an RTX 5090. A separate gateway port exposes your live sources as an Xtream-compatible endpoint for other native players, with per-user source access and stream limits. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

Your IPTV provider's login should never be typed into six televisions. IPTV Proxy is an open-source reverse proxy that takes an M3U/M3U8 playlist or an Xtream Codes account and re-serves every channel, movie, series, and guide from your own address, under a username and password you choose. Players like TiviMate, IPTV Smarters, VLC, and Kodi talk only to the proxy, so the provider's real URL and credentials stay hidden on one machine, and when the provider changes its address, your household devices keep pointing at the same stable endpoint behind your domain, HTTPS, or VPN. Each viewer can receive their own proxy account with a connection limit, regex filters trim channel lists down to what a household actually watches, playlist refreshes happen automatically, and a read-only status page shows who is watching what right now. Media servers join in too: the proxy presents live channels as an HDHomeRun network tuner, so Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, and Channels DVR record and time-shift them with guide data included. There is no database and no admin panel to secure; one small binary or container, configured by flags, is the whole deployment. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Point Emby at your movie, music, and photo libraries and it becomes a private streaming service: metadata and artwork arrive from TMDB and TVDB, everything lands in a polished browsable interface, and media transcodes on the fly whenever a client can't play the original format. The client reach is the selling point: native apps span Android TV, Apple TV, Google TV, Fire TV, Roku, LG and Samsung smart TVs, iOS, Android, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, plus web browsers and desktop apps for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and DLNA devices are auto-detected for casting and remote control. Multi-user support gives each household member their own account, watch history, favorites, and recommendations, with genuinely capable parental controls: content restrictions, access schedules, time limits, and live monitoring with remote control of kids' sessions. Live TV works with hardware tuners like HDHomeRun or M3U playlists, with free guide data in the US, Canada, and UK. The server and core features are free; an optional Premiere key adds hardware-accelerated transcoding, DVR recording, offline sync, and Cinema Mode intros.

Every screen in the house (browser, TV, game console, or phone) can open the same library of videos, music, and photos once Universal Media Server shares it, with transcoding handled automatically for whichever device asks. A file the device can already play passes through untouched. Anything else is converted on the fly to suit the network, the device, and the preferred language. Folders open at once, with no wait for library scans, and disc drives and disc images play directly. In the web interface, every title gets a page with cover art, cast, and genre details from TMDB, Discogs, and MusicBrainz, and filters narrow the library by actor, director, genre, year, or artist. YouTube channels, online radio, podcasts, and RSS feeds appear beside local files on every connected device. Users and groups, with optional avatars and four-digit PINs, decide which shared folders each person sees; content for children stays apart from the library for adults. A list of detected renderers shows every connected device, and the configuration file of each device can be edited to fix browsing, playback, or transcoding on an unsupported TV. Builds exist for Windows, Linux, and macOS, with AppImage and Docker options for servers. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-2.0 licensed.

Feed one camera, encoder, or file into MistServer and it republishes the same media in the formats your audience actually uses: HLS for phones, DASH for browsers, WebRTC for sub second playback, and RTMP or SRT for the next service in the chain. Publish from OBS over RTMP, SRT, or WHIP, then hand viewers a Meta Player embed that picks a working protocol on its own. Records run straight to disk for later on demand viewing, and push support relays finished streams to external platforms. Processes can repackage, encode, compose, or analyze media between ingest and delivery. A JSON API on the controller port covers configuration and status, stream keys authenticate incoming publishers, and triggers fire your own endpoints on stream events. Operational metrics export to Prometheus for retention and alerting. Access control rules and HTTPS support protect interfaces and media endpoints. File libraries become on demand catalogs with the same delivery rules as live channels. Every input, output, and process ships as a separate small binary, so an installation keeps only the protocol modules it actually serves, and analysers inspect media properties when a stream misbehaves. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Unlicense licensed.

MediaMTX sits between cameras and viewers as a self-hosted live media server, taking in video and audio streams over one protocol and handing them back out over another, so one IP camera feed can end up playing in a browser, a phone app, and a recording archive simultaneously. Publish with FFmpeg, GStreamer, OBS Studio, a browser, or a Raspberry Pi camera over RTSP, RTMP, SRT, WebRTC, Media-over-QUIC, HLS, MPEG-TS, or RTP, and read it back on any other protocol without a transcoding pipeline. Run dozens of camera feeds side by side, each on its own path, and keep every path available even while its publisher is offline. Record everything to disk in fMP4 or MPEG-TS as it streams, then play recordings back later through the same server instead of shipping files around. Authenticate publishers and viewers with built-in users, an external HTTP check, or JWT, and use the control API plus Prometheus metrics to wire the server into the rest of your monitoring stack. Forward streams to other servers, proxy cameras behind NAT, and fire hook commands whenever a client connects, publishes, or disconnects, so a doorbell camera can trigger a snapshot or an alert as it starts streaming. Reload the configuration while clients stay connected, and tune everything from the same mediamtx.yml file or environment variables, with no database or runtime dependencies to babysit. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Viewers arrive on browsers, phones, and desktop players, and SRS meets each of them with the right protocol from a single published stream. A broadcaster pushing RTMP can reach browser viewers through WebRTC with sub-second latency, phone apps through HLS, and desktop players through HTTP-FLV, all from the same live source without running parallel encoders. WHIP endpoints accept WebRTC ingest from browser studios and tools like OBS, while WHEP serves WebRTC playback, so an entire publish-to-viewer path can stay on modern web protocols. Operators shape each channel with virtual hosts, authenticate publishers and players through HTTP hooks that consult your own backend, and record live streams to disk as DVR archives for replay. Forwarding republishes a stream to YouTube, Facebook, or another SRS instance, and origin clustering lets edge servers pull from a central origin so one ingest feeds viewers in several regions. The built-in HTTP API reports streams, clients, and server health for monitoring, and GB28181 support ingests surveillance camera networks alongside creator broadcasts. Configuration lives in a single reloadable file, so changing a vhost or enabling HLS rarely means restarting the listeners your audience is attached to. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Plex's own dashboard shows current streams and forgets everything else - which is why every Plex server admin eventually installs Tautulli, the analytics layer. This Python web application (descended from PlexWatch and Headphones) logs complete watch history - what was watched, who watched it, when, where, from which device and IP, and whether it played directly or transcoded - and turns it into clean Highcharts graphs of daily plays, concurrent streams, bandwidth, and platform breakdowns. The home page surfaces top statistics over configurable windows: most-watched content, most active users, stream type ratios. For running a server shared with family and friends, this is operational truth: spot the user forcing 4K transcodes on a phone, see which libraries earn their disk space, and track sync activity across users. The notification engine triggers on server events - playback starts, transcode decision changes, recently added media, server down - through dozens of agents (Discord, Telegram, Slack, email, webhooks) with fully customizable text and conditions, plus arbitrary script execution. Scheduled newsletters email your users a styled digest of recently added content. A comprehensive API exposes every statistic for dashboards like Homarr, and an official mobile app monitors activity on the go. Themed to match Plex/Web. GPL-licensed.

Jellystat is a self-hosted media analytics and live session monitoring dashboard for Jellyfin and Emby servers that turns raw streaming activity into detailed user, library, and playback insights. Media server administrators use the live dashboard to watch active streams in real time, inspecting transcoding status, client devices, bitrates, and playback progress as sessions happen. Every completed or partial stream is logged automatically so you can browse chronological watch histories, filter by library or stream type, and analyze peak concurrent streaming hours across the week. Dedicated library and user views break down total watch duration, play counts, and most popular movies, episodes, or music albums per account. If you already use the official Jellyfin Playback Reporting or Statistics plugins, you can import existing historical records directly into your instance without losing past data. Built-in database backup and restore tools, automatic library synchronization tasks, IP geolocation via MaxMind GeoLite, and interactive Swagger API documentation at the /swagger endpoint round out the administrative toolkit. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Add a series once, set a quality profile, and everything downstream is automated: Sonarr is the smart PVR for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It monitors RSS feeds from your indexers, detects new episodes the moment they release, sends matching grabs to SABnzbd, NZBGet, qBittorrent, Deluge, or another download client, then renames files with fully configurable templates, sorts them into consistent folder structures, and notifies Plex, Kodi, or Jellyfin to update the library. Quality profiles define what's acceptable (HDTV, WEB-DL, Blu-ray, up to 4K) and an upgrade cutoff - when a better release appears, Sonarr replaces the existing file automatically, stepping from HDTV to WEB-DL to Blu-ray until the cutoff is met. Custom formats add weighted scoring for finer-grained release selection, with community-maintained TRaSH Guides presets as the widely accepted defaults. Failed downloads are handled without intervention: Sonarr retries with another release, and manual search shows every candidate with the reasons any was rejected. It scans existing libraries for missing episodes, fully supports specials, multi-episode files, and daily and anime series types, and a calendar view shows upcoming episodes across every tracked show. Runs on Linux, Windows, macOS, and Raspberry Pi, and pairs naturally with Prowlarr for centralized indexer management.

Seerr runs the front desk for your media server: friends and family discover movies and shows, request what is missing, and you approve or decline without a group chat full of titles. It unifies the Overseerr and Jellyseerr projects into one application that works with Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby alike. The discovery home page surfaces trending, popular, and upcoming titles with rich artwork, cast information, and trailers, so browsing feels like a streaming service rather than a file list. Requests can cover a whole series or individual seasons, with separate handling for 4K content when your library keeps two quality tiers. Approved requests hand off to Sonarr and Radarr automatically, and requesters watch the status move from pending to processing to available. Users sign in with their media server accounts, and administrators import those users, set per-user request quotas and permissions, and review everything from a request management screen designed for quick approvals. Watchlists and blocklists sync with your server, notification agents announce new requests and approvals through Discord, Telegram, email, and push services, and the mobile-friendly interface keeps approvals possible from the couch. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

M3U Studio turns a tangled IPTV playlist into a tidy, published subscription you would actually hand to your player. Import channels from an M3U or TXT file, pasted text, or a remote link, then organize them properly: drag single channels or whole multi-selections into new groups, rename, reorder, and watch the list reshape itself as you work. Nothing goes live until you say so. Edits accumulate in a draft with undo and redo, and publishing keeps the last 30 configurations so a bad change rolls back in seconds. Channel logos stop being a scavenger hunt, because a unified logo library matches artwork automatically by name and alias, with search and batch upload when you bring your own. Select a pile of channels and fix them together: replace URL text, change groups, set EPG addresses, or move copies into another playlist, then run response checks to spot dead streams before your player does. Each playlist publishes as its own M3U or TXT subscription, or merged into a combined feed, under a custom short address that is easy to type into a TV box. Per-channel EPG, catch-up, and fast channel change settings travel with the export. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-2.0 licensed.

One Ether install puts the TMDB catalogue inside your TV apps and streams titles on demand from your own accounts, holding no media files at all. It appears as a normal server inside the Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, Infuse and Stremio apps your household uses, with the whole catalogue browsable as if it were local. Press Play and Ether resolves the best release across your sources, health checks it, and streams only the byte ranges the player asks for, so scrubbing lands at the right keyframe instead of restarting a download. Pull titles from Real-Debrid, TorBox, AllDebrid and Premiumize accounts, Usenet providers through a built-in Newznab and Torznab manager, Cardigann definitions, or Stremio stream addons pasted in as sources. Released titles need no request queue: each viewer's Plex and Trakt watchlists sync in, and newly playable titles surface in a Now Available row on their home screen. A poster studio renders 4K, Dolby Vision, Atmos and rating badges onto artwork in the browser, and rule-based collections can run as 24/7 virtual channels in the Live TV guide. Subtitles arrive matched and retimed to the cut playing, with skip markers. A self-evicting cache keeps replays instant and preloads the next episode as you watch. Local playback needs no Plex Pass, and Docker runs Ether on port 32400 beside your library rather than replacing it. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.