Watch YouTube without the ads, accounts, or tracking, from a server you own: TubeHaus is a private YouTube client that keeps the familiar layout, URLs, and keyboard shortcuts. Your subscriptions, watch history, resume positions, Watch Later, and playlists live as files on the server, so every device in the house shares one library and picks up a video where another screen left it. Live streams play with segments fetched ahead of the player, and captions are transcribed on the fly when a stream has none. Chapters, storyboard previews, a mini player, and theater mode make long videos easy to navigate, while sponsors are skipped automatically and dislike counts come back to the page. Save videos offline in 1080p or 4K for trips, send playback to a TV from your phone without a separate casting dongle, and drive the television interface entirely from a remote. Imports arrive from a Google Takeout export, Invidious, NewPipe, or FreeTube, so years of subscriptions move over in minutes instead of being rebuilt by hand. A calm mode hides recommendations and Shorts when you only want to search and watch deliberately. 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.

Turn ordinary IP cameras, USB webcams, and video files into a self-hosted surveillance system that watches, records, and replays everything from a browser. Every camera becomes a monitor that can capture, analyze, and record around the clock or only when motion appears. Draw detection zones in six types (active, inclusive, exclusive, preclusive, inactive, and privacy) so a visitor on the driveway raises an alarm and swaying trees do not. The Montage view tiles live feeds in selectable layouts, Cycle rotates through them, and the Watch view adds scale, stream quality, and player controls for a single camera. Events arrive in a sortable list with thumbnails, durations, and alarm scores, play back against a timeline, and can be reviewed across every camera in Montage Review. Filters automate housekeeping by archiving, emailing, messaging, uploading, copying, moving, or deleting matching events on a schedule. PTZ controls steer supported cameras. User roles limit who can view or change each monitor, a REST API and MQTT support connect other tools, and the optional event server adds push notifications and object detection through machine-learning hooks. Multi-server installs spread cameras and storage across machines, and the zmNinjaNg app brings the same views to phones and desktops. 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.

Run every TV, menu board, kiosk, and video wall from one browser dashboard with ScreenTinker, a digital signage CMS you host yourself, with no per-screen license fees. Players cover Android TV, Fire TV, Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, Amazon Vega OS, Roku, Raspberry Pi, Windows, ChromeOS, and any web browser. Upload images and video, turn each PDF page into a slide, or design animated decks in the slide editor with templates, optional voiceover, a music bed, and an optional AI designer that works from a prompt using your own model endpoint. Widgets add clocks, weather, RSS tickers, moderated social walls, live IPTV streams, and iCal or JSON data bound straight into a slide. A weekly calendar handles recurring schedules, priorities, and time zones, and Preview at shows what a given screen will play at any chosen moment. Group screens to push playlists and bulk commands, split displays into zones, or join several panels into a video wall with bezel compensation. Live remote control, CSV proof-of-play reports, and offline email alerts keep a fleet in check, while web and Android players cache content and keep playing through outages. Workspaces, six role levels, optional approval before publishing, OIDC single sign-on, white-label branding on your own domain, and a scoped REST API serve agencies and larger teams. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

The fediverse's answer to YouTube comes from French non-profit Framasoft: PeerTube is a TypeScript/Angular video platform where hundreds of independently operated instances federate over ActivityPub into one network. Videos you publish are discoverable across the whole video fediverse, and viewers can follow your channels from Mastodon or any ActivityPub platform - or plain RSS - without needing an account on your instance. The namesake innovation attacks video hosting's core cost problem: alongside HLS delivery, an optional WebRTC-based P2P layer lets concurrent viewers' browsers share video segments with each other, so a video going viral distributes its own bandwidth demand instead of crushing your server; instance redundancy extends this by letting friendly instances cache each other's videos. Livestreaming is first-class - stream via OBS or any RTMP software, host permanent streams, enable replays, and interact through live chat. Creators get channels, playlists, analytics, built-in video editing (trim, watermark), and an embeddable player for any website. There are no ads, no data mining, and no recommendation algorithm engineered for watch-time - the project's explicit design stance. Admins control federation policy, P2P settings, and theming; a plugin system extends the rest. AGPL-licensed, 300+ contributors, in active development since 2015.

Follow the channels you actually chose, and let their newest uploads land on your own disk instead of in an algorithmic feed. Yarrtube tracks public YouTube playlists and whole channels, checks them on a schedule, and downloads fresh videos automatically the moment they appear. The built-in web player lets you watch the collected library from a desktop or a phone browser without ads interrupting. Downloads are organized into media-server friendly folders, so the same collection shows up inside Plex, Jellyfin, or Kodi next to your films and shows. For Plex homes, an optional scan trigger refreshes the library right after a download finishes, so new episodes surface without manual rescans. You control download quality per source and can cap how many videos each channel keeps, which protects limited disk space from runaway back catalogs. Grouping sources into categories and smart playlists keeps a growing archive browsable instead of turning into one long dump. Everything runs from one Docker container with two persistent mounts, one for its small database and one for the video files. A free YouTube Data API v3 key powers the new-upload checks, so setup takes minutes. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Twitch and YouTube Live, replaced by infrastructure you control: Owncast is a self-hosted live streaming and chat server. Point OBS, Streamlabs, or any RTMP-capable broadcaster at the server's ingest port, and Owncast transcodes the feed with FFmpeg into HLS with multiple quality variants, playing it in a built-in web page with a real-time chat beside it. Chat supports anonymous participation, custom emotes, and moderation tools - message removal, user bans and suspensions - with optional authentication via IndieAuth or a Fediverse account. ActivityPub integration puts the stream on the Fediverse: viewers on Mastodon and compatible services can follow a channel and get notified the moment it goes live. Video delivery can come straight off the server or offload HLS segments to S3-compatible object storage so a modest VPS handles thousands of concurrent viewers while only managing ingest and chat. The backend is a single Go binary with a React frontend - no accounts platform, no database server, no dependency stack - and the player embeds in any website. MIT-licensed, with roughly 9k GitHub stars, zero platform fees, and no algorithm or takedown policy between you and your audience.

The meeting ends and, instead of a raw transcript, you get minutes you can file: MeetDo is an open-source meeting-to-action system that hosts the meeting, captions it locally, and finishes the record for you. Start a browser meeting with video, screen sharing, and chat, and watch captions stream from a speech model running on the same infrastructure, so no audio is sent to a cloud note-taker. When the call ends, the transcript becomes structured minutes: summary, agenda flow, conclusions, and action items with owners, instead of a wall of raw text. Five meeting types, from management reviews and project weeklies to interviews and customer calls, shape the record, and custom templates export to DOCX or PDF with your original layout preserved. Domain vocabulary is corrected after recognition, so names, units, and industry terms survive transcription instead of turning into near-miss words. Past meetings stay searchable in a local history, and questions can be asked across them without anything leaving the machine. Editable transcripts let a human fix the record before it is filed, and the whole pipeline works offline after the first model download. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Urocissa is a self-hosted photo and video gallery engineered to browse, search, and filter a million-image library in under a second on modest hardware. Its photo stream scrolls endlessly without pagination or lazy loading, flying past the browser DOM height limit that breaks other galleries long before a million items. Search understands boolean operators, so a query mixing and, or, and not narrows a lifetime of photos in milliseconds, and select-all is equally instant across the whole collection. Point it at folders and it watches them for new arrivals, importing photos and videos automatically while duplicate detection keeps redundant copies out. EXIF data is extracted for every image, and your own tags layer manual organization on top, with timeline navigation and rotation built in. Albums share collections with family or clients, a read-only mode publishes a public gallery safely, and videos play inline without leaving the page. The index that makes this fast lives in memory at roughly half a gigabyte per million photos, and the whole application ships as a binary of about 25 megabytes, optionally protected by a password. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Build your own image and video sharing site, with public galleries, private albums, and embeddable links, on a server you control. Uploads arrive by drag and drop, clipboard paste, image URL, camera, ShareX, or API, in AVIF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, BMP, MOV, MP4, and WebM, and chunked transfers handle large files. Lossless JPEG handling fixes orientation and can strip EXIF data. Duplicate detection catches repeat uploads. Tags are created on the fly with autocomplete, camera models become tags automatically, and albums nest into sub-albums with covers, privacy levels, and passwords. Categories, search, and explore views help visitors find things; a bulk importer brings in folders of existing media. Each file gets viewer, direct, thumbnail, and medium links plus HTML, Markdown, and BBCode snippets with one-click copy, and oEmbed lets other sites preview a link. Roles split admin, manager, and user duties, profiles can be private, and two-factor authentication protects accounts. Files sit on local disk or S3-compatible storage, optionally served through a CDN URL. A dashboard tracks usage, color palettes and custom CSS and JavaScript restyle the site, and a single-profile mode suits a personal portfolio. 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.

Galene is a self-hosted video conferencing system that runs full meetings, lectures, and tutorials in the browser while asking remarkably little of the server it runs on. Every group gets its own page with video tiles, a user list, and a chat pane, and participants join from desktop or mobile browsers with nothing to install. Presenters share a screen or individual windows, stream a video or audio file straight from disk, and switch to blackboard mode when a slide needs resolution more than frame rate. Moderators can warn or remove participants and lock the group, raise-hand status keeps question queues orderly, and anyone can blur their background or exchange files directly with peers. Groups are simple configuration files: set public or private rooms, passwords or login tokens, client limits, and expiry windows, then create users with moderator or presenter privileges using the galenectl command. Automatic subgroups spin up identical breakout rooms on demand, the pattern its author uses to supervise forty students working in pairs during computer science practicals. Calls stay smooth on poor networks because the server adapts video quality per participant, recovers lost packets, and relays media through its built-in TURN server when firewalls block direct paths. 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.

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.

Movie night should not depend on everyone pressing play at the same second; SyncWatch runs your own watch-party server so friends in different places watch the same frame together. The host controls play, pause, seeking, and playback speed for the whole room, and late joiners or drifting clients are corrected back to the shared position automatically. You build the program from uploads or direct HTTPS media links, with subtitles, audio, images, and documents handled in the same library. Rooms can be permanent or temporary, protected by passwords and member limits, with host, admin, and permission-group control over who may operate playback. Between scenes, people talk through public and private chat, on-screen danmaku comments, emoji, voice messages, or full-room voice. Anyone can share a browser tab, window, desktop, or phone screen into the room, so a clip, a game, or a presentation becomes the shared screen. The server also keeps friends, notifications, online presence, bans, registration approvals, and an operations log, so a private community can run itself without a platform account. Uploaded media is analyzed and thumbnailed automatically, with browser-compatible versions generated for awkward formats. Backups, data export, a recycle bin, mail verification, and network diagnostics round out the admin side. 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.

Product Hunt's Maker of the Year: Animockup delivers an alternative to expensive motion graphics tools for creating animated product teaser videos entirely in the browser. The FabricJS canvas engine provides a fully interactive editing surface where you import product videos or screenshots, place them inside device mockups ranging from iPhones and MacBooks to browser windows and smartwatches, and customize everything from background gradients to overlay text positioning. Anime.js powers the animation system with configurable start and end transitions, easing curves, and duration controls that produce smooth entrance and exit effects without timeline editors or keyframe knowledge. The built-in FFMPEG.wasm pipeline handles all video processing client-side — no server-side rendering required — exporting finished teasers to WebM, MP4, or GIF at custom framerates and resolutions up to 4K. The crop and reposition tool lets you precisely fit product footage into any device screen regardless of aspect ratio differences. Twenty-plus device frames cover phones, tablets, laptops, desktops, watches, and generic browser windows for maximum versatility. Firebase authentication handles user sessions while the optional Paddle integration manages subscriptions — or remove both for a fully free deployment. Self-hosting requires only a static web server with optional PHP for the payment webhook endpoint. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Apache OpenMeetings puts the whole meeting in the browser: cameras, a shared whiteboard, the agenda document, and recording controls, all running on your own server. Participants join rooms with audio and video, audio only, or video only, choose camera resolutions and devices, and present by sharing a screen or a single window at selectable quality. Moderators control the floor person by person: who may draw on the whiteboard, present, share or record the screen, mute others, or speak while everyone else stays muted. Multiple whiteboards hold drawings, text, clip art, and imported documents in PDF, office, and image formats, rescaling to fit every participant's screen, and boards can be saved into the drag-and-drop file explorer for the next session. Every meeting can be recorded with all audio streams exactly as heard, then downloaded as MP4 or played back in the integrated player, and the built-in calendar schedules rooms and sends invitations. Breakout rooms split classes and workshops into groups, polls gather decisions live, private and group chat runs beside the video, and telephone users can dial into rooms through the Asterisk SIP integration. 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.

Lunarr turns the movie and TV folders you already store into a private streaming service with posters, progress tracking, and play-anywhere convenience. Point it at local disks or at libraries living on SFTP and WebDAV servers, and it scans, identifies, and decorates everything with TMDb artwork, cast pages, similar titles, and because-you-watched recommendations. Press play and the file either streams directly or is transcoded on the fly into seekable HLS, generating only the segments around the moment you are watching instead of converting whole films up front. Continue watching follows you between sessions, sidecar subtitles are picked up automatically, and known intros and credits can be skipped. Send the picture to the big screen with Chromecast or AirPlay, pair new devices without typing passwords, and hand a guest a share link instead of your account. Underneath, an admin console manages users, roles, and which libraries each person may see, watches background jobs, and holds API keys and registration settings. Rescans run on schedules you set from minutes to a month, local folders can be watched live for new arrivals, and metadata refreshes itself on a timer. 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.

MiroTalk WebRTC is the front desk for your own video meeting platform, where users register, schedule rooms across your MiroTalk servers, and invite guests by email or link. Each account gets a personal dashboard of upcoming, recurring, and past meetings, with room links ready to copy the moment a call needs to happen. Scheduling works for the whole MiroTalk family, SFU group calls, P2P chats, and broadcast or direct-call rooms, so one calendar front door serves every meeting style you run. Invitations travel by email or plain shareable links, and guests join from any modern browser with no account and no downloads. Turn on SaaS mode and the same platform sells access, with monthly, annual, and lifetime plans handled by Stripe checkout and webhooks while free mode stays completely open. A documented REST API lets your own systems create rooms and manage users, and the official Docker image with MongoDB gets the whole front desk online in minutes. 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.

Reclip is a self-hosted web downloader that turns links from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and more than a thousand other video sites into MP4 or MP3 files saved on your own server. Paste one link or a whole batch of URLs, and Reclip fetches each video's title, thumbnail, duration, and uploader before you commit to anything. A quality picker lists every available resolution, so a lecture can be grabbed at 360p for a phone while a concert film comes down at full height with the best audio stream merged in. MP3 mode strips the picture away entirely, which makes it painless to archive podcasts, DJ sets, and spoken-word clips as plain audio files. Playlists expand into their individual videos automatically, repeated URLs are deduplicated before any bandwidth is spent, and a Download All button works through the whole queue without babysitting. Each job runs in a background thread with live status in the interface, so the page stays responsive while ffmpeg finishes merging streams behind the scenes. Everything lives behind one clean page with no accounts, no uploads to third-party converters, and no expiring download links, and finished files land in a downloads folder you control. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.