Self-hosted projects tagged “Media Transcoding”

Jellyfin is a free, self-hosted media server to organize, manage, and stream movies, TV, music, and photos to web, mobile, and TV clients.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Plex+19

Kodi is an open source media center for organizing and playing local and networked video, music, and photos with a TV-friendly interface and add-on ecosystem.

Actively maintained

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Microsoft Windows Media Player+7

ConvertX is a self-hosted web file converter supporting 1000+ formats across documents, images, audio/video, ebooks, and 3D assets, with multi-file processing and accounts.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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CloudConvert+7

Modern open source video and media CMS for hosting, organizing, and streaming video, audio, images, and PDFs with RBAC and a REST API.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Vimeo+9

Self-hosted distributed transcoding and remux automation for media libraries using FFmpeg or HandBrake, with health checks, scheduling, and plugin-based processing rules.

Actively maintained

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Encoding.com+2

Dim is a self-hosted media manager that indexes, organizes, and beautifies your media libraries with a modern web UI for browsing and playback.

AGPL-3.0Slowing down

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Plex+6

Fast, modern photo and video management for Nextcloud with timeline, albums, sharing, metadata editing, map view, and optional AI-based tagging integrations.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Google Photos+12

OvenMediaEngine (OME) is a sub-second latency live streaming server that ingests multiple protocols, transcodes to ABR, and delivers streams via WebRTC and Low-Latency HLS.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Wowza Streaming Cloud+15

Self-hosted IPTV channel builder that turns your Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby libraries into scheduled live TV streams with an HDHomeRun-style tuner, M3U, and web guide.

ZlibActively maintained

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Channels DVR+2

Fladder is a cross-platform Jellyfin client that streams, transcodes, and downloads media for offline playback, with profile switching, library management, and adaptive UI.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Infuse Pro+5

Kyoo is a self-hosted video-focused media server for movies, TV series, and anime, with automatic library scanning, transcoding, and modern web/mobile clients.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Plex+5

Podsync turns YouTube or Vimeo channels and playlists into podcast RSS feeds, with scheduled updates, filtering, and optional audio transcoding for podcast apps.

MITActively maintained

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YouTube

moOde Audio is a Raspberry Pi music player and streamer with a responsive WebUI, MPD-based playback, multiroom audio, and support for popular network renderers and outputs.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Volumio Premium (MyVolumio)+5

Self-hosted platform to archive Twitch VODs and live streams with real-time chat playback, rendered chat exports, playlists, and channel watching automation.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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PlayOn Cloud+2

Self-hosted video compressor web app with a SvelteKit UI, FastAPI API, and Celery workers using FFmpeg with GPU acceleration (NVENC/VAAPI) and CPU fallback.

Actively maintained

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Any Video Converter (AVC) Online+5

Self-hosted web UI to manage HandBrakeCLI encoding queues across one or more headless worker machines, including directory watchers and GPU-accelerated transcoding.

AGPL-3.0Slowing down

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Encoding.com+2

Downloads music from YouTube and other providers, converts to high-quality MP3 with cover art, and uploads to WebDAV-compatible cloud storage like Nextcloud. Dockerized.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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4K Video Downloader+8

Self-hosted workflow automation for media and file libraries—watch folders, run FFmpeg/metadata steps, and route outputs with a visual flow builder.

Activity unknown

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FileFlows Cloud+8

Plex Media Server lets you organize, stream, and access your personal movies, TV, music, and photos across devices, with rich metadata and client apps.

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Emby Premiere (Emby Media Server Cloud Features)+6

Self-hosted CCTV/NVR software for recording, viewing, and managing IP camera streams with a web UI, real-time events, and flexible deployment from edge to enterprise.

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Blue Iris+10

Self-hosted YouTube-like video sharing app in Go with automatic MP4 (H.264/AAC) transcoding, thumbnail generation, RSS feeds, and file-based libraries (no DB).

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YouTube+9