gerbera/gerbera
UPnP Media Server for 2026: Stream your digital media through your home network and consume it on all kinds of UPnP supporting devices 📱💻📺 observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
86/100
- Activity 98
- Release rhythm 63
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 55.5
- age_days: 4407
- days_rel: 165
- days_push: 14
- n_releases_24m: 11
Adoption not part of the score
1390 stars · 225 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Gerbera is a free, open-source UPnP/DLNA media server that streams digital media across a home network to compatible devices like TVs, game consoles, and phones. It offers a web UI, metadata extraction, thumbnails, flexible transcoding, and automatic directory rescans, building on the legacy MediaTomb project.
Use cases
- stream movies and music from my pc to my smart tv
- set up a dlna media server on my home network
- serve my music library to upnp devices
- transcode video on the fly for unsupported devices
- self-host a media server with a web interface
- stream media to playstation or android phone
When to choose
- you need a free, self-hosted UPnP/DLNA server for heterogeneous devices
- you want flexible transcoding and custom collection layouts via JavaScript
- you run Linux, BSD, or macOS and want broad architecture support including ARM
When to avoid
- you need a modern streaming solution with transcoding apps like Plex or Jellyfin
- your target devices don't support UPnP/DLNA
- you want cloud or remote access features out of the box
Facets
application · maturity active
http-server streaming image-processing audio-processing video-processing plugin-system web-scraping media self-hosted networking web-development bsd cross-platform self-hosted upnp dlna media-server transcoding mediaserver home-network dlna-server upnp-av mediatomb web-ui metadata-extraction thumbnails linux macos docker web-server
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/gerbera/gerbera · fetched 2026-08-28 · b0896a096902
- homepage: https://gerbera.io · fetched 2026-08-29 · 3d3b718145b7
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| gerbera/gerbera | main | 86 |
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