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 98 services in 4 categories. FrontierStack can install, connect or monitor them for this job.
Storage & NAS (31)
- 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
- 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
- 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)
AV & Stage (28)
- 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
- Chrome Remote Desktop; Free remote control of this Mac
- Dante (Audinate); Audio-over-IP networking (AoIP)
- Depence²; Real-time 3D previz & show control (Syncronorm)
- Google Cast / YouTube Cast; Chromecast casting & control
- grandMA2; MA Lighting grandMA2 console / onPC
- grandMA3; MA Lighting console / onPC show control
- Kodi; Media centre with JSON-RPC remote
- Liquidsoap; Scriptable radio/audio stream engine
- MadMapper; Projection mapping & LED control
- MPV; Scriptable media player (CLI)
- NDI; Video-over-IP for production (NDI)
- OBS Studio; Live production, streaming & recording
- PixMob; Crowd LED wearables for stadium light shows
- Q-SYS; QSC's AV processing & control platform
- QLC+; Open-source DMX lighting control
- Reflector; AirPlay/Cast screen receiver (Squirrels)
- Resolume Arena / Avenue; VJ / media-server software
- Riverside.fm; Remote podcast & video recording studio (cloud)
- Screenly / Anthias; Digital signage; cloud or open source
- SRT (tools); Secure Reliable Transport for live video
- Syphon; GPU frame sharing between Mac apps
- VLC; Player with HTTP/telnet remote interfaces
- WebRTC (WHIP/WHEP); Sub-second video in any browser
- Xylobands; RF-controlled LED wristbands for events
- Yodeck; Cloud digital signage (Pi players)
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)
Run it from your Mac.
FrontierStack installs, monitors and secures services on this Mac and on linked servers.
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