UPnP

What is UPnP

• What Is UPnP & Why Is It Dangerous?
• What Is Port Forwarding? Everything You Need to Know, Explained. Disabling UPnP and Using Manual Port Forwarding .
• What Is UPnP? Here's Why You Should Disable It on Your Router

Jellyfin

• Jellyfin also works with lots of clients including its own mobile apps.
• Jellyfin: Free Software Emby Media Server Fork Is Announced After Emby Becomes Proprietary
• How to Install Jellyfin Media Server with Nginx on Ubuntu 20.04
• How to Use Your Raspberry Pi 4 as a Jellyfin Streaming Media Center

PS3 Media Servver

https://github.com/ps3mediaserver/ps3mediaserver

minidlna

http://bbrks.me/rpi-minidlna-media-server/

It works even I use my phone to tether data (I don't need to turn on wifi on my phone).

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install minidlna
sudo nano /etc/minidlna.conf # the default location of media files is on /var/lib/minidlna

# rebuild the database. See the comments in <etc/minidlna.conf>
sudo service minidlna force-reload 
sudo service minidlna start
sudo update-rc.d minidlna defaults # ask minidlna to start up automatically upon boot.

Too bad is when I played certain videos the program crashed. The /var/log/syslog showed kernel: [96495.690373] minidlna[1627]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f4af2de9964 sp 00007fffa43014f8 error 4 in libc-2.15.so[7f4af2d54000+1b4000]. Also the minidlna process becomes 2 instead of 1 after the crash.

Kodi

Too bad the Kodi's upnp function is not stable. Kodi server disappeared so the client cannot find it.

Installing Kodi using Ubuntu based systems

Decrypt and Rip DVDs With Handbrake

• How to Decrypt and Rip DVDs With Handbrake (Windows and macOS)
• HandBrake – Copy a DVD to MP4 or MKV file (Ubuntu)

PLEX

This seems to be the best from my test.

• Do I need a Plex account to stream locally?
• How To Install Plex Media Server on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• 5 Reasons Why You Don’t Actually Need a Plex Pass - live TV channels!
• How to Add Local TV Channels to Your Plex Server
• STOP Paying for TV! Cut the Cord for good with Plex!. SiliconDust HDHomeRun tv tuners..
• Best media server from lifehacker.
• Kodi vs Plex from lifehacker.
• How to set up Plex (and Watch Your Movies on Any Device) from howtogeek.
• Plex is running as a service. After we use web to configure, we can close the website.
• Users needs to sign up/sign in before completing the installation
• Access the admin page by http://IP-address:32400/web
• If new files were added, it will update the library. To do that, go to settings and check automatically update.
• Soft links works.
• Iso file cannot be read. Use HandBrake to create m4v files from iso files (seems to be fast enough; e.g. 5 minutes for a DVD).

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install handbrake-gtk
  sudo apt-get install handbrake-cli

• How to Share Your Plex Media Library with Friends
• Plex Just Killed My Cable Box Rental, and It Could Kill Yours Too
• How to Turn Your Old Laptop Into a Plex Media Server

Subsonic media server

• http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp
• How to Install Subsonic Media Server Ubuntu 18.04

Airsonic media server

How to Install Airsonic Media Server on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. OpenJDK, Nginx,

Icecast 2 music server

• https://www.streambox.org/elc/software/icecast.htm
• How to Install Icecast 2 Media Streaming Server on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Sonerezh music server

How to install Sonerezh Music Streaming Server on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

DockSTARTer

How to Set Up a Linux Media Server in Under One Hour