
- #Universal media server playlist how to#
- #Universal media server playlist install#
- #Universal media server playlist windows#


The server-side coding environment is more powerful and they are constantly working on updates and features and pushing them out to the public. Wowza will work on more platforms and serve video to more platforms. The main difference between the two is that Wowza is a Java-based socket server, and FMS is C# I think. Wowza is very powerful and they are making great progress with their feature set. The streaming version which is cheaper at 995 USD just streams video. Going with the Interactive version you can do a lot of powerful things like build conference-style apps, games, video players, and live interactive apps with a combination of live video and audio of all kinds. FMS will always have the best features available from the beginning. You'll need to post a bit more about your needs but to follow up with the great response before mine there, FMS and WMS have quite a different set of functionality going for each of them.įor FMS, you've got Adobe behind it with their millions and millions towards not only FMS and the Flash player too to sync with features in FMS. I will try to complete the list of findings as i go, and integrate findings of others too if possible.
#Universal media server playlist install#
Debian 11 minimal install with SSH server virtioSCSI 32GB drive on local SAS drive array So far the media servers with web interfaces get limited by memory 1st and foremost. also very low resource usage compared to all the other web enabled servers, can be installed through APT. Navidrome: requires X11 to be installed, and so far the only one with web player to not be able to either find its own album art or use the cover.jpg in the album folder, and also is the only one without uPnP if it matters, fairly slow refresh too but plays fast, and does not error out at all when it loses its media folder. edit: got nonsense errors, when it loses the files it says that the player is incompatible, a library re-scan fixes it though, can be installed through APT. Jellyfin: requires X11 to be installed, the web UI is very close to Plex's and worked 1st try, and allows custom named library, that neither UMS or Plex seems to do, or at least not that i could find easily.

#Universal media server playlist windows#
MediaPortal: seems Windows only, so could not go further
#Universal media server playlist how to#
Kodi: for some reasons included in all the media servers list online, could not find how to set it up as an headless server Gerbera: requires X11 to be installed, very bare-bone web UI, at least when using the version from the default apt repo, no player or configuration assistant, only a file browser, can be installed through APT. minidlna: extremely minimalist, only a DLNA/uPnP server, does not have a web app but works rather well, edit: i only tested on my PC, it actually also requires X11 and Wayland even though it is only a gui-less server (explanation i got is that it uses FFPMEG), can be installed through APT. Universal Media Server: works pretty well, the web app fails on empty categories and OGG files (treats them as videos) though and the UI can be improved but is better than Plex at understanding what that it is a server and with library scanning. Plex MS: works very well when it does, required 3 reboots before understanding it was a server and not a rendered though, can be installed through APT. Honestly i rather have something opensource and only tried Plex because a friend of mine had problem with it on his windows machine and asked me to try on linux before he went that way. do you have any suggestions of others to try, or ways of making those that do not do? Hello, i have started experimenting with media servers on VMs so far i have managed to get Plex MS, UMS and minidlna to work, the snag with all the others is that my servers are headless.
