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.

Services we install or monitor for this

95 services across 4 categories that FrontierStack can install, connect and monitor for this use-case — revealed together when you pick this preset in the app.

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)

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)

Storage & NAS (28)

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)
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)
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)

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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