Self-hosted projects made with FFmpeg

Self-hosted media server to organize, stream, and transcode your movies, TV, music, and photos across apps and devices.

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Plex+1

Self-hosted photo management and gallery app with AI search, automatic organization, and multi-user support for large photo and video libraries.

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Google Photos+3

Sunshine is a self-hosted game/desktop streaming server that works with Moonlight clients, enabling low-latency remote play with hardware-accelerated encoding.

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Plex+4

Self-hosted NVR that uses real-time object detection (TensorRT/Coral/CPU) with camera restreaming, recording, snapshots, a web UI, and strong Home Assistant integration.

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Plex+8

PeerTube is a self-hosted, federated video platform using ActivityPub and BitTorrent/WebTorrent to publish, stream, and share videos across interconnected instances.

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YouTube+9

ConvertX is a self-hosted file conversion service that provides a web interface and API to convert documents, images, audio, and video using a containerized toolchain.

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Smallpdf+3

Self-hosted adult media organizer with metadata scraping, tagging, search, and a web UI for managing scenes, performers, studios, and galleries.

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Plex+3

Download, index, and stream YouTube channels/playlists with full-text search, metadata, and a web UI powered by yt-dlp and Elasticsearch.

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YouTube+6

ZoneMinder is a Linux-based video surveillance/NVR platform for IP and analog cameras with motion detection, recording, events, and a web interface.

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Blue Iris+7

Restreamer is a web UI for ingesting live video (RTMP/SRT/HTTP), optionally transcoding with FFmpeg, and restreaming to platforms like YouTube, Twitch, or custom RTMP targets.

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Restream+5

Self-hosted video platform for uploading, managing, and streaming media with transcoding, playlists, channels, search, and embeddable players.

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YouTube+5

A web UI for managing YouTube downloads with yt-dlp, metadata, and organized library exports for media servers or offline viewing.

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4K Video Downloader+2

Self-hosted web app to catalog your music and stream it anywhere via web UI, Subsonic-compatible API clients, playlists, and user access controls.

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Spotify+7

All-in-one web radio suite for managing stations, scheduling shows, and streaming to listeners via a modern web UI and APIs.

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Twitch (for live streaming)+6

Self-hosted network video recorder (NVR) that runs local object detection and motion detection on camera streams, with a web UI, recordings, and event timelines.

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Blue Iris+6

Server-based music library and streaming system with multi-room playback, web UI, plugins, and wide player support (Squeezebox and compatible clients).

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Plex+5