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Streama VS MistServer

Compare Streama VS MistServer and see what are their differences

Streama logo Streama

It's like Netflix, but self-hosted!

MistServer logo MistServer

MistServer is a lightweight, open-source multistandard multimedia server.
  • Streama Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-10-22
  • MistServer Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-07-27

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1000000kb/s STREAMING?! MistServer on Windows Server & Ubuntu testing.

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Category Popularity

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Media Players And Streaming Platforms
Video
17 17%
83% 83
Video Platform
0 0%
100% 100
Media Player
100 100%
0% 0

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Reviews

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Streama Reviews

9 Best Plex Alternatives You Must Try This Year
Would you ever like your private Netflix? If yes, you may find “Streama” an intelligent pick. The app has a very impressive user interface and includes a player inspired by Netflix. You can browse your entire collection rapidly and arrange the files according to your particular taste.

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Streama should be more popular than MistServer. It has been mentiond 3 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Streama mentions (3)

  • Petition to restart the Stargate Command streaming site.
    I think this would be a bit of a hiding to nothing, an alternative considering you own all the DVD's, would be /r/selfhosting on something like Streama or Plex - assuming you have some spare hardware to do so, and can be bothered digitising your collection! Source: over 2 years ago
  • Is there a self hosted media player?
    Https://github.com/streamaserver/streama or Airsonic maybe? Source: almost 3 years ago
  • I want to create a Virtual Machine that runs some software that lets me listen to, watch, or view media through a web browser.
    I used Streama a few times. It's really great. You should check it out. Https://github.com/streamaserver/streama Demo: https://streama.demo-version.net/. Source: about 3 years ago

MistServer mentions (1)

  • I found a way to share one of my monitors into vrchat video players! (info in comment)
    We managed to do it using OBS and a program running on my raspberry pi 3 called MistServer, as well as my audio mixer to mute the browser source on my end and a dynamic dns app. This all being said, the friend I was spitballing with was able to get a hold of a private beta build to help it work smoothly on the pi. The fixes in this should be available later this year in the OSS (free) version, though you might be... Source: over 2 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Streama and MistServer, you can also consider the following products

Kodi - Kodi is an award winning free and open source media player that got its start on the Xbox console.

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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.

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