Top 10 Best Linux Media Server Software

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Kodi Landing Page
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Kodi

Kodi is an award winning free and open source media player that got its start on the Xbox console.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Unlike Kodi, Plex is not open-source. It does offer a free account for its users. But it also offers premium pricing plans that allow you to unlock more features and have greater control over your media, while also being able to get detailed insights into who’s using Plex and what they’re using it for.

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plexapp.com Plex Landing Page

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plexapp.com Plex

NOTE: plexapp.com Plex has been discontinued.

Plex Media Server is a media streaming software service that allows users to stream large amounts of content seamlessly with one device. This company was developed in 2013 and has physical locations in California and Arizona. Read more about Plex.

Unlike Kodi, Plex is not open-source. It does offer a free account for its users. But it also offers premium pricing plans that allow you to unlock more features and have greater control over your media, while also being able to get detailed insights into who’s using Plex and what they’re using it for.

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Jellyfin Landing Page
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Jellyfin

Jellyfin is a personal media server.
Pricing:
- Open Source
An open-source media server software with several features. Jellyfin is actually a fork of the Emby media server. It may be one of the best out there, available for ‘free’.

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LibreELEC Landing Page
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LibreELEC

LibreELEC is ‘Just enough OS’ for Kodi, a Linux distribution built to run Kodi on current and...
Pricing:
- Open Source
LibreELEC also has special builds for single board computers like Raspberry Pi. You can install this special operating system on your Raspberry Pi and get a media center device ready in minutes.

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Emby Landing Page
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Emby

media server for personal streaming movies tv music photos in mobile app or browser for all devices android iOS windows phone appletv androidtv smarttv and dlna.
Pricing:
- Open Source
You can get started for free, but to unlock all the features, including full support for Android, PS4, Xbox One, you need to purchase licenses for all your devices. There are also numerous functionalities like backup/restore and folder sync that you get with an Emby Premiere subscription.

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Gerbera Landing Page
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Gerbera

Free UPnP media server based on MediaTomb
Pricing:
- Open Source
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OSMC Landing Page

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OSMC

OSMC is a free and open source media center built for the people, by the people.

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Universal Media Server Landing Page
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Universal Media Server

Universal Media Server allows you to host your entire library of video, music, and pictures, and broadcast them conveniently to a wide variety of different devices.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Yet another simple addition to this list. Universal Media Server does not offer any fancy features but just helps you transcode/stream video and audio without needing many configurations.

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Red5 Landing Page

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Red5

Red5 is an open source Flash media server for live streaming solutions of all kinds.

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Serviio Landing Page

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Serviio

Web on Big Screen. Serviio enables playback of online sources like RSS feeds, live streams or web site content so that you can listen to your favourite podcasts or watch latest TV programmes published online.

Serviio is an interesting free media server. Note that it is not an open-source solution, but supports Linux.

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