Product Overview
Gerbera is an open-source UPnP Media Server that allows you to stream your digital media throughout your home network and listen to/watch it on a variety of UPnP compatible devices. With Gerbera, you can browse and playback your media via your network on all kinds of devices, including TVs, Playstations, Android & iOS phones and tablets.
Main Features
Gerbera offers a range of features that make it a powerful and flexible media server:
- Web UI: A tree view of the database and file system allows you to add/remove/edit/browse your media
- Metadata extraction: Extract metadata from MP3, OGG, AAC, M4A, FLAC, wavpack, JPG files (and many more!)
- Media thumbnail support
- Highly flexible media format transcoding: Via plugins/scripts
- Automatic directory rescans (timed, inotify)
- User-defined server layout: Based on extracted metadata
- Support for last.fm scrobbing
- On-the-fly video thumbnail generation
- Support for external URLs (create links to internet content and serve them via UPnP to your renderer)
- Cross-platform compatibility: Runs on Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and more! Supports x86, ARM, MIPS, and more!
To learn more about installing and building Gerbera, please visit the docs page.