MediaTomb **AWOL**

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MediaTomb has been replaced by Gerbera.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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