Serviio 1.9

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

Serviio 1.9 changelog:

MediaBrowser now used HTML5 video renderer, instead of Flash
enabled giving Renderers user-friendly names
enhance trakt.tv XBMC episode tracking
added User Rating browsing category
use Unknown for video metadata entities only when the Descriptive metadata is used for the Shared folder
All Music (and other virtual categories) are now possible to be turned-off
added Edit context menu to the Console input fields
users can now store their profiles in user-profiles.xml file
added new Roku profiles
fixed retrieving genres on mySQL engine
fixed folder share browsing in the Console to properly deal with ampersands in the folder name
correctly detect character encoding of playlist files
fix multi-track audio transcoding
fixed detection and displaying of Hebrew subtitles
fixed type in serviio.hdThumbnailResolution system property
fixed subtitles not delivered completely for some renderers
updated FFmpeg to 3.2.4
updated Java to 1.8.0_131