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People who want their own streaming library with apps on TV, phone, and desktop, without subscriptions or tracking.

Why it deserves attention

Jellyfin catalogs your media files, fetches metadata, streams to apps on Android, iOS, TV, and the web, and handles transcoding when a client cannot play a format directly. It is GPL-2.0 licensed, has no paid tiers, premium features, or telemetry, and runs on Linux, Windows, macOS, Docker, and NAS systems. Hardware transcoding is available with a compatible GPU. The trade-off is that you supply the files, run and update the server yourself, and expose it securely if you want access outside your home network.

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