Last Updated on August 8, 2018
MediaTomb is an open source UPnP MediaServer with an attractive web user interface. This application allows users to stream digital media through a home network and listen to/watch it on a variety of UPnP compatible devices.
MediaTomb implements the UPnP MediaServer V 1.0 specification.
MediaTomb should work with any UPnP compliant MediaRenderer.
Features include:
- Browse and playback your media via UPnP
- Metadata extraction from mp3, ogg, flac, jpeg, etc. files
- Exif thumbnail support
- User defined server layout based on extracted metadata (scriptable virtual containers)
- Automatic directory rescans
- Highly flexible media format transcoding via plugins / scripts
- Sophisticated web user interface with a tree view of the database and the file system, allowing to add/remove/edit/browse your media support for external URLs (create links to internet content and serve them via UPnP to your renderer)
- Support for ContentDirectoryService container updates
- Active Items (experimental feature), allows execution of server side scripts upon HTTP GET requests to certain items
- Watch YouTube videos on your UPnP playerdevice
- Highly flexible configuration, allowing you to control the behavior of various features of the server
- Supports last fm scrobbing using lastfmlib
- On the fly video thumbnail generation with libffmpegthumbnailer
- Support for external URLs
- Multi-platform support
- Runs on x86, Alpha, ARM, MIPS, Sparc
MediaTomb has been replaced by Gerbera.
Website: DISCONTINUED
Support:
Developer: Gena Batyan, Sergey Bostandzhyan, Leonhard Wimmer
License: GNU GPL v2
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