Self-hosted projects using FFmpeg

Immich is an open-source platform for organizing, backing up, and streaming photos and videos with web and mobile clients, searchable metadata, face clustering, and S3-co...

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Google Photos+14

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

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Plex+19

Self-hosted tool to collect and preserve webpages, media, and bookmarks in durable formats (HTML, PDF, WARC, MP4) with a CLI, web UI, and search.

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Internet Archive Wayback Machine+3

Open-source web music server that streams personal music collections via a modern web UI and Subsonic-compatible APIs; supports large libraries and on-the-fly transcoding...

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Plex+13

A lightweight web interface for yt-dlp (youtube-dl fork) that manages queued downloads, playlists, and filename templates via Docker or local Python/Angular setup.

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4K Video Downloader+10

Self-hosted web app for organizing, tagging, and streaming a private adult video and image library with metadata scraping, galleries, and markers.

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Plex+11

Owncast is a self-hosted live streaming server that supports RTMP ingest, HLS playback, and built-in web chat, with optional Fediverse (ActivityPub) integration.

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YouTube+12

LibrePhotos is a self-hosted photo and video management service with timeline views, metadata search, and machine-learning features like face recognition and semantic ima...

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Google Photos+9

Open-source video integration and NVR platform that ingests camera streams and rebroadcasts them to HomeKit, Google Home, Alexa, Home Assistant and web clients via plugin...

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Blue Iris+10

Self-hosted live streaming server to ingest RTMP/SRT/RTSP, transcode with FFmpeg, and restream to platforms like YouTube Live and Twitch with an easy web UI.

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Restream+8

Open-source Ruby on Rails music streaming server that indexes a local music directory, provides web and mobile players, playlists, multi-user accounts, and Docker deploym...

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Plex+12

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

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Encoding.com+2

Self-hosted web radio platform for station management, AutoDJ, live DJs, multi-station hosting, analytics and Docker-based deployment.

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SAM Broadcaster Cloud+5

Open-source Nextcloud app for managing photos and videos with timeline, AI-based tagging, albums, map view, metadata editing, and on-demand HLS transcoding.

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Google Photos+10

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 HL...

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Wowza Streaming Cloud+15

Open-source, self-hosted social media manager for scheduling, publishing, analytics and team workflows; deploy via Docker or as a Laravel package.

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Hootsuite+13

CLI tool that orchestrates yt-dlp and FFmpeg with YAML presets to download, convert, tag, and organize media for Plex, Jellyfin, Kodi, Emby and music players.

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4K Video Downloader+6

Self-hosted IPTV stream and EPG manager with M3U/XMLTV support, proxy streaming, real-time stats, and VOD (movies/series) organization for media servers.

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IPTV Editor+1

ErsatzTV is an open-source media server that creates scheduled, EPG-driven IPTV-style channels from local libraries or Plex/Jellyfin/Emby, with hardware transcoding and M...

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Channels DVR+1

Open source audio and video casting system that turns Linux-capable hardware into a network receiver for streaming local files, URLs, and media servers.

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Sonos+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.

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Plex+5

Gonic is a lightweight, self-hosted Subsonic API server for streaming your music library with transcoding, playlists, podcasts support, and multi-user access.

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Plex+10

Privacy-focused web archiving and playback service with bots and CLI, supporting multiple backends like Internet Archive, archive.today, IPFS, Telegraph, and local storag...

PiGallery2 is a fast, read-only, directory-first web photo gallery with search, maps, sharing links, and optional video playback, optimized for Raspberry Pi-class hardwar...

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Google Photos+14

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.

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Channels DVR+2

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

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YouTube

Open-source C++ music server with web UI, Subsonic API, audio transcoding, recommendations, multi-library support and playlists/lyrics features.

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Plex+11

Open-source lightweight music server offering web-based streaming, tagging, recommendations, Subsonic API compatibility and audio transcoding for personal music collectio...

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Plex+9

Open-source self-hosted music server for collectors with flexible metadata parsing, multiple releases/versions support, music-video handling and Docker deployment.

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Plex+9

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

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PlayOn Cloud+2