Films & series library · Music library
Jellyfin
The free media server: films, series and music on every screen.
open source self-hostable Jellyfin project · ?Streams your own film, series and music collection to TVs, phones and browsers, with no account at a company and no licence to renew.
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How you can run it
| Way | Where the data lives | Price basis | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host it myself | your own server or hardware | free | green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure. |
Facts
| Company / project | Jellyfin project (jurisdiction unknown) — Volunteer project without a legal home country |
|---|---|
| Licence | GPL-2.0 |
| Self-hosting footprint | 1024 MB RAM · 1 vCPU · 10 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people |
| Commonly replaces | Plex, Netflix |
| Upstream (awesome-selfhosted-data) | 56,511 stars · updated 2026-09-03 · C#, deb, Docker |
| Provenance | curated, verified 2026-09-04 |
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