#MediaTomb - UPnP MediaServer
MediaTomb is an open source (GPL) UPnP MediaServer which allows you to stream your digital media through your home network and listen to/watch it on a variety of UPnP compatible devices.
##Features
- Browse and playback your media via UPnP
- Metadata extraction from mp3, ogg, flac, jpeg, etc. files.
- Exif thumbnail support
- User defined server layout based on extracted metadata (scriptable virtual containers)
- Automatic directory rescans
- Web UI with a tree view of the database and the file system, allowing to add/remove/edit/browse your media
- Highly flexible media format transcoding via plugins / scripts
- Allows to watch YouTube(tm) videos on your UPnP player device [Broken]
- Supports last fm scrobbing using lastfmlib
- On the fly video thumbnail generation with libffmpegthumbnailer
- Support for external URLs (create links to internet content and serve them via UPnP to your renderer)
- Support for ContentDirectoryService container updates
- Active Items (experimental feature), allows execution of server side scripts upon HTTP GET requests to certain items
- Highly flexible configuration, allowing you to control the behavior of various features of the server
- runs on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, eCS
- runs on x86, Alpha, ARM, MIPS, Sparc, PowerPC
##Building
The usual:
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
If you have a recently cloned source tree remember to
$ autoreconf -i
##Licence
Copyright (C) 2005
Gena Batyan <bgeradz at mediatomb dot cc>
Sergey Bostandzhyan <jin at mediatomb dot cc>
Copyright (C) 2006-2008
Gena Batyan <bgeradz at mediatomb dot cc>
Sergey Bostandzhyan <jin at mediatomb dot cc>
Leonhard Wimmer <leo at mediatomb dot cc>