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 .
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!
- 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
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