Serviio 1.8

Serviio

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

Release Notes - 1.8:

detect start and stop of a file playback and include notifications in the Console
track your video collection and playback progress using Trakt.tv integration
display the item being played per Renderer in the Console
added support for multiple genres per media file
setting a poller mechanism per shared folder
added /profiles endpoint to the CDS API
added setting to prefer multichannel audio tracks during video delivery
added support for eac3 audio
added support for native playback of H265 in MpegTS where supported
fixed Folders browsing category sorting to be case insensitive
add BOM mark to extracted UTF-8 subtitles to fix displaying them on some devices
fixed folder names with & getting truncated in MediaBrowser