Serviio Alternatives

Serviio

Serviio is a free media server. It allows you to stream your media files (music, video or images) to any DLNA-certified renderer device (e.g. a TV set, Bluray player, games console) on your home network.

Basic features

* DLNA 1.5 compatible UPnP media server
* streams audio, video (SD & HD) and image files in their native format or transcoded in real-time
* automatically udpates the media library when you add/update/remove a media file or a metadata file
* wide array of library browsing options
* supports different editable renderer profiles
* supports automatic renderer detection (for certain devices)
* extracts metadata of your media files the way you want it, incl. embedded metadata tags, local metadata files, online metadata sources
* supports video thumbnails, CD covers, DVD posters, etc.
* categorizes video files into movie and/or series and marks last viewed episodes of a series
* available for Windows, Linux and Mac (with the possibility to run the server part one one platform and console on another)

Supported renderers

* any DLNA-compliant device should work
* Samsung TVs (supports additional features, e.g. subtitles)
* Samsung Bluray players
* Sony TVs
* Panasonic TVs
* Playstation 3
* Xbox 360
* LG Bluray players (supports subtitles)
* WDTV Live
* Oppo BDP-83
* MusicPal
* DirecTV DVR
* ... and many more

Supported media file

* Audio: MP3( .mp3), Windows Media Audio (.wma)
* Video: MPEG-1 (.mpg, .mpeg), MPEG-2 PS (.mpg, .mpeg, vob, mod), MPEG-2 TS (.ts, .m2ts), MPEG-4 (.mp4, m4v, mov), AVI (.avi, .divx), Windows Media Video (.wmv, .asf), Matroska (.mkv)
* Image: JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg)