Media & streaming server

Plex/Jellyfin, downloads and AV; served from a quiet Mac mini.

Run media servers (Plex, Jellyfin, Emby), download automation and AV / stage tooling from a Mac, with storage management, remote access and monitoring that understands transcoding load. Pair with the firewall and TLS to share securely over the internet.

Manage matrix switchers from your Mac

Keep the AV hardware in your studio, meeting rooms or venue organised in FrontierStack. Pin network-connected HDMI, HDBaseT, SDI and audio matrix switchers alongside AV-over-IP encoders, decoders, transceivers and system controllers, including UniFi EAV Bridges.

Add your hardware. Open AV Feeds or UniFi and find AV Hardware. Pin an identified device, or add its IPv4 address manually and choose an equipment profile.
Organise by location. Give each device a useful name, assign it to a Place and save its device or controller management URL.
Watch for outages. Open the pinned device and enable its offline alert. Add exposed RTSP, HLS or NDI streams separately in AV Feeds when you also want to watch the feeds.

Routing and presets

Open the saved management interface from FrontierStack to route inputs to outputs and work with presets in UniFi or the manufacturer's controller. FrontierStack keeps your devices and reachability checks together; it does not send matrix-switching commands or verify HDMI signal, audio continuity or multicast delivery.

Services we install or monitor for this

This preset shows 128 services in 4 categories. FrontierStack can install, connect or monitor them for this job.

AV & Stage (56)

Ableton Live / Link; DAW + Ableton Link tempo sync
Advatek PixLite; Art-Net/sACN → SPI pixel controllers
AirServer; Turn this Mac into an AirPlay/Cast/Miracast receiver
ArKaos GrandVJ / XT; Live VJ mixing & video mapping
ArKaos MediaMaster (ChamSys); Stage media server for lighting desks
Beat Link Trigger; Pro DJ Link → MIDI / OSC / Ableton Link bridge
Brompton Tessera; LED wall processors (SX40, S8, M2)
Chrome Remote Desktop; Free remote control of this Mac
Colorlight; LED controllers & receiving cards
Dante (Audinate); Audio-over-IP networking (AoIP)
Depence²; Real-time 3D previz & show control (Syncronorm)
disguise (d3); Media server & show-control platform (designer / rx / gx)
Engine DJ (Denon StageLinQ); Denon DJ / Engine DJ; StageLinQ network
ENTTEC DMX gateways; Ethernet → DMX nodes (ODE, Storm, DIN Ethergate, Octo)
Falcon Player (FPP); Show player for pixel & SPI LED controllers
Google Cast / YouTube Cast; Chromecast casting & control
grandMA2; MA Lighting grandMA2 console / onPC
grandMA3; MA Lighting console / onPC show control
Hippotizer; Green Hippo media servers
Kodi; Media centre with JSON-RPC remote
Lightjams; Real-time interactive DMX/LED lighting
Liquidsoap; Scriptable radio/audio stream engine
MadMapper; Projection mapping & LED control
MADRIX 5; LED lighting control & pixel mapping
Millumin; Mac media server for theatre, dance & installations
MPV; Scriptable media player (CLI)
NDI; Video-over-IP for production (NDI)
NovaStar / COEX; LED wall processors & receiving cards
OBS Studio; Live production, streaming & recording
OLA (Open Lighting Architecture); Open-source DMX/Art-Net/sACN/RDM server (olad)
PIXERA; AV Stumpfl media server
PixMob; Crowd LED wearables for stadium light shows
PRO DJ LINK; Pioneer/AlphaTheta CDJ & DJM network (UDP 50000–50002)
Protokol; Hexler; OSC, MIDI & gamepad monitor
Q-SYS; QSC's AV processing & control platform
QLab; Figure 53; theatre & show playback (audio, video, lighting, OSC)
QLC+; Open-source DMX lighting control
Reflector; AirPlay/Cast screen receiver (Squirrels)
rekordbox; AlphaTheta (Pioneer DJ) library & performance software
Resolume Arena / Avenue; VJ / media-server software
Riverside.fm; Remote podcast & video recording studio (cloud)
RTP-MIDI (Network MIDI); MIDI over Ethernet/Wi-Fi (AppleMIDI)
sACNView; Free sACN (E1.31) monitor & test tool
Screenly / Anthias; Digital signage; cloud or open source
ShowKontrol (TCNet); TC Supply; TCNet timecode & DJ data for lighting/video
Spout; GPU texture sharing between Windows apps (Syphon's Windows twin)
SRT (tools); Secure Reliable Transport for live video
Syphon; GPU frame sharing between Mac apps
TouchOSC; Hexler; OSC/MIDI control surfaces
VDMX; Vidvox; modular VJ software for macOS
VLC; Player with HTTP/telnet remote interfaces
WATCHOUT; Dataton multi-display show control
WebRTC (WHIP/WHEP); Sub-second video in any browser
WLED; ESP32/ESP8266 LED controller firmware
Xylobands; RF-controlled LED wristbands for events
Yodeck; Cloud digital signage (Pi players)

Storage & NAS (33)

Beelink NAS; Beelink ME mini / ME Pro NAS hardware (Windows, TrueNAS, Unraid, OMV, Proxmox)
Box; Secure content, collaboration and governed agent workflows (SaaS)
Ceph; Distributed object/block/file storage cluster (self-hosted)
Dropbox; Cloud file sync & share (app + API)
Fibre Channel (SAN); FC SAN fabric; HBA ports, WWNs, multipath
File Browser; Web file manager for a directory
Filestash; Web file manager for S3/SFTP/FTP/WebDAV/…
GigaIO FabreX; PCIe/CXL memory fabric; composable GPU pooling
GlusterFS; Scale-out network filesystem (self-hosted)
InfiniBand Fabric; InfiniBand HCA/fabric; ports, SM, port-error counters
iSCSI (SAN); Block storage over TCP/IP; initiator & target (port 3260)
Liqid (Composable); Composable PCIe/CXL fabric; pool & attach GPUs/NVMe
Netatalk; AFP file sharing for legacy Macs and Xserve estates
Nextcloud; Files, sync, office & app platform
NVIDIA NVLink; GPU-to-GPU interconnect; per-link state & bandwidth
NVIDIA NVSwitch; NVLink switch fabric; Fabric Manager service
NVMe / NVMe-oF; NVMe SSDs & NVMe-over-Fabrics targets (TCP/RDMA/FC)
OpenMediaVault; Debian-based NAS OS; SMB/NFS/rsync, plugins (self-hosted)
ownCloud; Self-hosted file sync & share
QNAP QTS; QNAP NAS appliance (QTS/QuTS hero)
RDMA / RoCE / iWARP; Remote Direct Memory Access fabrics; RoCE & iWARP
Resilio Sync; P2P file sync (BitTorrent-based)
Samba; SMB file sharing (+ Time Machine)
Seafile; File sync & share with client-side encryption (self-hosted)
Supabase Storage; S3-compatible object storage from Supabase
Syncthing; Peer-to-peer continuous file sync
Synology DSM; Synology NAS appliance (DSM)
TrueNAS; ZFS NAS OS; pools, snapshots, replication (self-hosted)
UGREEN NAS; UGREEN NASync appliance running UGOS Pro
Unraid; NAS/server OS; storage array, VMs & Docker
UrBackup; Client/server network backup; file + image backups to your NAS (self-hosted)
WEKA; Parallel filesystem for AI/HPC (GPUDirect)
ZimaOS / CasaOS; Personal-cloud NAS OS for ZimaCube / ZimaBoard (self-hosted)

Media Servers (28)

Airsonic-Advanced; Self-hosted music streaming (Subsonic API)
Audiobookshelf; Self-hosted audiobook & podcast server
AzuraCast; Complete self-hosted radio station
Bazarr; Automatic subtitles for Sonarr/Radarr
Calibre-Web; Web reader/manager for a Calibre ebook library
Channels DVR Server; Whole-home DVR for live TV & streaming (self-hosted)
Emby; Media server with live TV/DVR
Icecast; Audio streaming server (net radio)
Immich; Self-hosted photo & video backup (Google Photos alt.)
Jellyfin; Free home media server (Plex alternative)
Jellyseerr; Media request manager (Jellyfin/Plex/Emby)
Kavita; Fast ebook/comic/manga server
Komga; Comics & manga server (self-hosted)
MediaMTX; RTSP/RTMP/HLS/WebRTC/SRT media server
Navidrome; Self-hosted music server (Subsonic-compatible)
Ombi; Media request system (Plex/Emby/Jellyfin)
Overseerr; Media request manager for Plex
Owncast; Self-hosted live streaming + chat
PeerTube; Federated, P2P video platform (ActivityPub)
Plex Media Server; Popular home media server
Restreamer; Restream one input to many platforms
RomM; Self-hosted ROM manager & player
SRS; Simple Realtime Server; RTMP/WebRTC/SRT
Tautulli; Plex monitoring, history & stats
Tdarr; Distributed media transcoding/health automation
TSDuck; MPEG transport-stream toolkit (CLI)
Tvheadend; TV streaming server & DVR (DVB/IPTV)
Wowza Streaming Engine; Commercial streaming server (RTMP/SRT/HLS)

Download Automation (11)

Lidarr; Automated music collection management (self-hosted)
NZBGet; Lightweight, efficient Usenet downloader (self-hosted)
Pinchflat; Self-hosted YouTube media downloader/archiver
Prowlarr; Indexer manager for the *arr stack
qBittorrent; Open-source BitTorrent client with Web UI (self-hosted)
Radarr; Automated movie management (self-hosted)
Readarr; Automated book & audiobook management (self-hosted)
SABnzbd; Usenet (NZB) downloader with Web UI (self-hosted)
Sonarr; Automated TV series management (self-hosted)
Transmission; Lightweight BitTorrent client + daemon (self-hosted)
Tube Archivist; Self-hosted YouTube archive (index + watch)

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