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About Gerbera

Gerbera is an UPnP Media Server. It allows you to stream your digital media throughout your home network and listen to/watch it on a variety of UPnP compatible devices.

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GPL-2.0

More about Gerbera

Gerbera - UPnP Media Server

Gerbera is a UPnP media server which allows you to stream your digital media through your home network and consume it on a variety of UPnP compatible devices.

Pull requests are very welcome and reporting issues is encouraged.

Documentation

View our documentation online at https://docs.gerbera.io.

Features

Browse and playback your media via your network on all kinds of devices.
Web UI with a tree view of the database and the file system, allowing to add/remove/edit/browse your media
Metadata extraction from MP3, OGG, AAC, M4A, FLAC, wavpack, JPG (and many more!) files.
Media thumbnail support
Highly flexible media format transcoding via plugins / scripts
Automatic directory rescans (timed, inotify)
User defined server layout based on extracted metadata
Supports 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)
Runs on Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and more!
Runs on x86, ARM, MIPS, and more!

Installing

Head over to the docs page on Installing Gerbera for instructions on how to install Gerbera.

Building

Visit our docs for instructions to Compile Gerbera or Compile latest Gerbera.

Quick start build instructions:

git clone https://github.com/gerbera/gerbera.git
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../gerbera -DWITH_DEBUG=YES
make -j4
sudo make install

Dependencies

Library	Min Version	Recommended	Latest tested	Required?	Note	Default
libupnp	1.14.6	1.14.14	1.14.14	XOR libnpupnp	pupnp
libnpupnp	4.2.1	4.2.1	4.2.1	XOR libupnp	npupnp	Disabled
libuuid				Depends on OS	Not required on *BSD
pugixml		1.10	1.13	Required	XML file and data support
libiconv				Required	Charset conversion
sqlite3	3.7.0	3.35.5	3.36.0	Required	Database storage
zlib				Required	Data compression
fmtlib	7.1.3	7.1.3	9.1.0	Required	Fast string formatting
spdlog	1.8.1	1.8.5	1.11.0	Required	Runtime logging
duktape	2.1.0	2.6.0	2.7.0	Optional	Scripting Support	Enabled
mysql				Optional	Alternate database storage	Disabled
curl				Optional	Enables web services	Enabled
taglib	1.12	1.12	1.13	Optional	Audio tag support	Enabled
libmagic				Optional	File type detection	Enabled
wavpack	5.1.0	5.4.0	5.6.0	Optional	WavPack metadata support	Disabled
libmatroska		1.6.3	1.7.1	Optional	MKV metadata	Enabled
libebml		1.4.2	1.4.4	Optional	requird by libmatroska	Enabled
ffmpeg/libav				Optional	File metadata	Disabled
libexif				Optional	JPEG Exif metadata	Enabled
libexiv2		v0.26	v0.27.5	Optional	Exif, IPTC, XMP metadata	Disabled
lastfmlib	0.4.0	0.4.0	0.4.0	Optional	Enables scrobbling	Disabled
ffmpegthumbnailer		2.2.0	2.2.2	Optional	Generate video thumbnails	Disabled
inotify				Optional	Efficient file monitoring	Enabled

License

GPLv2

Copyright (C) 2005
   Gena Batyan <bgeradz at mediatomb dot cc>
   Sergey Bostandzhyan <jin at mediatomb dot cc>

Copyright (C) 2006-2008
   Gena Batyan <bgeradz at mediatomb dot cc>
   Sergey Bostandzhyan <jin at mediatomb dot cc>
   Leonhard Wimmer <leo at mediatomb dot cc>

Copyright (C) 2016-2023
    Gerbera Contributors