Denpa is a home TV recording server that turns a Linux machine and a TV tuner into a private recorder for Japanese terrestrial and satellite broadcasts, with reservations and browser playback. There are no configuration files: plug in a supported tuner and card reader, press scan, and the tuner type, channels, and program guide set themselves up. Reserve from the guide, or save a search as a rule and matching broadcasts record automatically; a repeated episode is ignored after its first airing is captured. Recordings encode to AV1 or H.264 MKV files (H.265 when a GPU is present) with captions exactly as broadcast, and detected commercials become chapters that playback skips entirely. Playback resumes where you stopped, runs at up to double speed, and clips save on the server with captions intact; programs also download to devices for offline viewing. Live viewing runs about a second behind the broadcast: pausing starts chase playback, alternate audio stays selectable, and BML data broadcasting works in the browser. The companion denpa-tv app reaches Android TV and Fire TV through QR pairing, and an API exposes channels, recordings, and audio-only feeds to Home Assistant and scripts. EPGStation and EDCB users can import rules, reservations, and recordings, and the interface stays closed until you open it to trusted networks or protect it with OIDC login. 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.

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.

Bring your own IPTV provider and nodecast-tv gives it a fast browser interface for live channels, a program guide, movies, and series. Add an Xtream Codes or M3U provider in Settings, then zap through channels with category grouping and search; playlists of thousands of channels scroll smoothly. The 24-hour TV guide is interactive, and movie and series pages show posters, ratings, metadata, and seasonal episode lists. Favorites sync across channels, movies, and series, and the home page keeps a Continue Watching shelf and recently added titles within reach. Transcoding steps in only when a stream needs it, using hardware encoders and surround-to-stereo downmix presets like Night Mode and Cinematic. Admin and viewer roles control who can change settings, and OIDC single sign-on works with Authentik, Keycloak, and similar providers. Hidden categories, volume memory, and auto-play fine-tune playback. 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.

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.

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.

Your couch becomes the control room with RelayTV, a self-hosted media hub that runs on the Linux box plugged into your TV. Connect Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby once, then search films, open a series, pick an episode, resume where you stopped, or drop the pick into the shared queue. Paste a web video link to play it on the big screen, or queue an entire YouTube playlist of up to a thousand videos in order without pausing tonight's movie. The TV idles on a dashboard with a QR code, and anyone in the room scans it to join the same remote, browse, and add picks to the queue. Add M3U playlists to build a My Channels lineup, pin favorites to the top, rewind inside the buffered window when you miss a line, and jump straight back to live. Playback, queue advancement, history, and overlays all run on the box itself, so the TV keeps playing after your phone leaves the page. Every screen appears in Home Assistant as a media player, and the local HTTP API takes play, queue, overlay, and snapshot calls from scripts and dashboards. A second RelayTV in the bedroom can receive the active queue from the living room, and the optional API token locks control down on shared networks. 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.

Your folders are the library with MediaServer, a self-hosted player that scans the directories you already keep and serves their video and audio through a tidy web interface. Browsing feels like a personal YouTube: folders open as shelves of content, and the custom player keeps the video going as you explore what to watch next. Keyboard shortcuts drive playback, speed controls and player statistics sit a click away, and an ambient background glows behind the video. Every view is remembered: full watch history with timestamps, re-watch counts, per-user totals, and playback heatmaps replace the single watched tick other servers stop at. Metadata belongs to you: edit titles, thumbnails, tags, seasons, and release dates for videos, folders, and albums, and the edits survive files being moved or renamed. Music gets its own treatment with embedded cover art, a lyrics viewer and editor fed by LrcLib, and auto-scrolling lines that follow the song. Subtitles extract themselves from embedded and external files, folders and single videos share as readable links, and each share renders a rich preview card for Discord or chat. Behind the scenes, a dashboard manages libraries, scanning jobs, users, and server performance. 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.

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.

Meridian puts all of your Emby reverse proxy sites, playback routes, and day to day operations into one clean management panel instead of a pile of hand-written proxy configs. Each Emby site gets its own entry through a path, a dedicated port, or a subdomain, with primary and backup routes that switch automatically when one goes down. Three playback modes let video stream directly to clients while logins, posters, and API calls continue through the proxy, so bandwidth lands where it should. Accounts for each site are stored with passwords and expiry dates, renewal reminders arrive ahead of time, and account details can be imported or exported as JSON and CSV. Traffic trends, per-site quotas, rate limits, and static resource caching keep busy sites under control, while log filtering and connection diagnostics show exactly where a request went wrong. Certificates are handled through Cloudflare wildcard issuance and renewal, or by uploading your own, and encrypted backups protect the whole configuration. Routine administration can even happen from Telegram, checking daily reports, adding or pausing sites, and renewing accounts from chat. The whole panel runs as one small program with a built-in database and works comfortably from a phone. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT 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.

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.

Movies, music, and photos stored on your server become a streaming library your television, game console, and phone can browse and play across the home network with Gerbera. Point it at your movie, music, and photo directories and it builds a searchable database, extracting titles, artists, albums, and cover art from the files themselves. The web interface shows the library as a tree of containers and items, where you add directories, edit entries, and reorganise how content is presented to devices. Automatic rescans watch your folders on a timer or through filesystem notifications, so new episodes and albums appear without manual imports. When a device cannot play a format, transcoding plugins convert the stream on the fly into something it accepts. Video files get thumbnails generated automatically, and external URLs can be added as virtual items that renderers play like local media. Different devices see the same library through layouts you define from the extracted metadata, grouped by artist, genre, year, or folder structure. A clients view lists the renderers that connect, and the configuration view edits the server setup from the browser instead of XML files. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPLv2 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.

OvenMediaEngine ingests a broadcast feed once and delivers it to every viewer with sub-second delay over WebRTC and Low Latency HLS. Encoders push through WebRTC with WHIP, SRT, RTMP, or MPEG-2 TS, and the server can also pull RTSP sources and schedule pre-recorded files as live channels. The embedded transcoder converts incoming video to adaptive bitrate ladders in VP8, H.264, H.265, or AV1, so phones on weak signals and televisions on fiber each receive a rendition they can play. WebRTC delivery runs through an embedded signalling server and TURN server, with retransmission and forward error correction keeping pictures intact on imperfect networks. LLHLS streams carry DVR rewind, WebVTT subtitles, timed metadata, and DRM through Widevine, FairPlay, and PlayReady. Recordings dump finished streams to files for video on demand, thumbnails capture stills, and push publishing re-streams to other platforms over RTMP and SRT. Origin-edge clustering spreads a popular event across many servers, admission webhooks and signed policies control who may publish and watch, and a REST API plus monitoring endpoints keep the whole service observable. 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.

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.

Point OBS or a hardware encoder at Restreamer's built-in RTMP or SRT ingest and it serves your website while rebroadcasting to YouTube Live, Twitch, Facebook, Vimeo, TikTok, LinkedIn, PeerTube, and anything else that accepts RTMP, SRT, or HLS - a complete self-hosted live-streaming server from datarhei. That multistreaming normally costs a monthly Restream.io subscription; here it's one FFmpeg process per destination on your own hardware. The web UI is genuinely approachable, with a wizard that walks beginners through camera setup, while professionals get the full surface: multiple audio/video inputs (USB, RTSP network cameras, virtual devices), codec and processing settings, separate audio muxing, and hardware acceleration via Nvidia CUDA, Intel VAAPI, or Raspberry Pi. Serving your own audience is first-class - a built-in Video.js player embeds in your site, a ready-made publication website streams without any embedding work, HLS chunk sizes are tunable, and automatic Let's Encrypt handles HTTPS. Viewer and bandwidth monitoring with limits keeps traffic costs predictable, and it's GDPR-friendly: no third-party provider, no audience data stored. A fully Swagger-documented REST API drives automation. SRT support keeps latency under a second.