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.

Gerbera was originally based on MediaTomb

Documentation

View our documentation online at http://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, 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.

Building

Gerbera uses CMake.

Quick start build instructions:

# Assuming Ubuntu base
git clone https://github.com/gerbera/gerbera.git
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../gerbera -DWITH_MAGIC=1 -DWITH_MYSQL=1 -DWITH_CURL=1 -DWITH_JS=1 \
-DWITH_TAGLIB=1 -DWITH_AVCODEC=1 -DWITH_FFMPEGTHUMBNAILER=1 -DWITH_EXIF=1 -DWITH_LASTFM=1
make -j4
sudo make install

Alternatively, the options can be set using a GUI (make sure to press "c" to configure after toggling settings in the GUI):

git clone https://github.com/gerbera/gerbera.git
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../gerbera
make edit_cache
# Enable some of the WITH... options
make -j4
sudo make install

Install prerequisites.

On Ubuntu 16.04

apt-get install uuid-dev libsqlite3-dev libmysqlclient-dev \
libmagic-dev libexif-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libspdlog-dev libpugixml-dev
# If building with LibAV/FFmpeg (-DWITH_AVCODEC=1)
apt-get install libavutil-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavdevice-dev \
libavfilter-dev libavresample-dev libswscale-dev libswresample-dev libpostproc-dev

The following packages are too old in 16.04 and must be installed from source: taglib (1.11.x), and libupnp (1.8.x).

libupnp must be configured/built with --enable-ipv6. See scripts/install-pupnp18.sh for details.

On FreeBSD

The following has bee tested on FreeBSD 11.0 using a clean jail environment.

1. Install the required prerequisites as root using either ports or packages. This can be done via Package manager or ports. (pkg manager is used here.) Include mysql if you wish to use that instead of SQLite3.

pkg install wget git autoconf automake libtool taglib cmake gcc libav ffmpeg libexif pkgconf liblastfm gmake

2. Clone repository, build dependencies in current in ports and then build gerbera.

git clone https://github.com/gerbera/gerbera.git 
mkdir build
cd build
sh ../gerbera/scripts/install-pupnp18.sh
sh ../gerbera/scripts/install-duktape.sh
cmake ../gerbera -DWITH_MAGIC=1 -DWITH_MYSQL=0 -DWITH_CURL=1 -DWITH_JS=1 -DWITH_TAGLIB=1 -DWITH_AVCODEC=1 -DWITH_EXIF=1 -DWITH_LASTFM=0 -DWITH_SYSTEMD=0
make -j4
sudo make install

On macOS

The Gerbera Team maintains a Homebrew Tap to allow for easy installation of Gerbera Media Server on macOS.

https://github.com/gerbera/homebrew-gerbera

Dependencies

Lib	Version	Required?	Note	Compile-time option	Default
libupnp	>=1.8.6	Required	pupnp
libuuid		Depends on OS	On *BSD native libuuid is used, others require e2fsprogs-libuuid
pugixml		Required	pugixml
libiconv		Required
sqlite3		Required	Database storage
zlib		Required
fmtlib		Required
spdlog		Required
duktape	2.1.0	Optional	Scripting Support	WITH_JS	Enabled
mysql		Optional	Alternate database storage	WITH_MYSQL	Disabled
curl		Optional	Enables web services	WITH_CURL	Enabled
taglib	1.11.1	Optional	Audio tag support	WITH_TAGLIB	Enabled
libmagic		Optional	File type detection	WITH_MAGIC	Enabled
ffmpeg/libav		Optional	File metadata	WITH_AVCODEC	Disabled
libexif		Optional	JPEG Exif metadata	WITH_EXIF	Enabled
libexiv2		Optional	Exif, IPTC, XMP metadata	WITH_EXIV2	Disabled
lastfmlib	0.4.0	Optional	Enables scrobbling	WITH_LASTFM	Disabled
ffmpegthumbnailer		Optional	Generate video thumbnails	WITH_FFMPEGTHUMBNAILER	Disabled
inotify		Optional	Efficient file monitoring	WITH_INOTIFY	Enabled

Licence

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) 2016-2020
    Gerbera Contributors