Serviio is a free media server. It allows you to stream your media files (music, video or images) to renderer devices (e.g. a TV set, Bluray player, games console or mobile phone) on your connected home network. Serviio works with many devices from your connected home (TV, Playstation 3, XBox 360, smart phones, tablets, etc.). It supports profiles for particular devices so that it can be tuned to maximise the device"s potential and/or minimize lack of media format playback support (via transcoding). Serviio is based on Java technology and therefore runs on most platforms, including Windows, Mac and Linux (incl. embedded systems, e.g. NAS).
There is also a paid Pro edition which further enhances the possibilities of sharing content in your connected household. Free vs Pro comparison.
Features:
- streams audio, video (SD & HD) and image files in their native format or transcoded in real-time
- streams content from online sources, like RSS feeds, live audio/video streams, web page content
- includes a plugin system to support streaming from non-trivial online sources
- supports most known playlist formats
- supports subtitles
- automatically updates the media library when you add/update/remove a media file or a metadata file
- supports RAW camera images
- wide array of localized library browsing options
- supports different editable renderer profiles
- supports automatic renderer detection and per-IP profile assignment
- extracts metadata of your media files the way you want it, incl. embedded metadata tags, local metadata files, online metadata sources (in preferred language), XBMC, Swisscenter, MyMovies
- supports video thumbnails, CD covers, DVD posters, etc.
- categorizes video files into movie and/or series and marks last viewed episodes of a series
- integrates with trakt.tv
Supported renderers:
- Samsung TVs and Bluray players (supports additional features, e.g. subtitles)
- Sony TVs and Bluray players
- Panasonic TVs
- Playstation 3, Playstation 4
- Xbox 360, Xbox One
- LG TVs and Bluray players
- Toshiba TVs
- Sharp TVs
- Philips TVs
- WDTV Live (supports subtitles)
- Oppo BDP-83
- MusicPal
- DirecTV DVR
- Pure Flow devices
- ROKU
- Android phones, iOS phones
- ... and many more
Serviio 1.9.1 changelog:
- ignore .@__thumb QNAP folders; ticket #1021
- upgrade to TheTVDB.com API v2; ticket #945
- enabled native 4k H264 playback in MediaBrowser on Desktop
- added support for idx/sub bitmap subtitles; ticket #1035
- added support for "forced" external subtitle files; ticket #1034
- added support audio HLS files; ticket #857
- added Samsung M series profile; ticket #1037
- fixed passing clientId and start parameters to CDS when playing HLS content; ticket #1018
- fixed parsing video rating for some Locales; ticket #1020
- detect subtitle files immediately when they are added; ticket #1024
- increase timeout for playing HLS videos in MediaBrowser; ticket #1023
- fixed adding online sources with URL ending with a colon; ticket #1011
- show relevant cover image when browsing artists and other roles; ticket #1029
- fixed removing multiple shared folders at the same time; ticket #1036
- fixed duplicates being left in the library after editing shared folder path; ticket #1045
- fixed audio playback in MediaBrowser on iOS devices; ticket #1031
- updated Java to 1.8.0_162
Download: Serviio 1.9.1 | 138.0 MB (Freeware, paid upgrade available)
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