Gerbera - UPnP Media Server

Gerbera is a UPnP media server which allows you to stream your digital media through your home network and consume it on a variety of UPnP compatible devices.

Gerbera is based on MediaTomb which is dead upstream, so this is a community attempt to kick it back into life.

Pull requests are very welcome and reporting issues is encouraged.

Documentation

View our documentation online at http://docs.gerbera.io.

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 (timed, inotify)
• 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
• 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

Differences to Mediatomb (So far)

• Rebranded as Gerbera, new Logo!
• Actively maintained/developed.
• Removed bundled libupnp - Now requires upstream 1.8 version.
• Removed bundled libuuid.
• Ported to CMake.
• Enhanced cover art support for MP4, FLAC, Vorbis & WMA files (via TagLib).
• TagLib handler opens files read only: stops inotify rescanning the dir on access causing "Object not found" see here.
• Album folders have "creator" metadata (artist).
• Album folders have artwork: either from external files or the tracks embedded artwork.
• Per-track external art support: filename-of-track.jp\* (minus the audio file extension).
• Removed libflac use/dep.
• Remove libmp4v2 use/dep.
• Remove id3lib use/dep.
• Removed broken DVD image support (dvdnav).
• IPv6 Support
• Replaced SpiderMonkey (mozjs) dependency with embedded duktape engine.
• WIP port to "Modern C++" / tidying.
• Lots of other stuff.
• Dropped broken youtube support.

Installing

Ubuntu

Stephen Czetty maintains a Ubuntu PPA.

Gentoo

The latest version and git ebuild are in the main portage tree.

Arch

Gerbera is available in AUR stable or git version.

openSUSE

Gerbera is avaiable on software.opensuse.org.

Debian

Gerbera is included in Testing and Unstable.

Entware (Optware)

Gerbera is available in Entware for your embedded device/router!

Building

The project has been ported to CMake.

Install prerequisites.

On Ubuntu 16.04

apt-get install uuid-dev libexpat1-dev libsqlite3-dev libmysqlclient-dev \
libmagic-dev libexif-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev
# If building with LibAV/FFmpeg (-DWITH_AVCODEC=1)
apt-get install libavutil-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavdevice-dev \
libavfilter-dev libavresample-dev libswscale-dev libswresample-dev libpostproc-dev

The following packages are too old in 16.04 and must be installed from source: taglib (1.11.x), and libupnp (1.8.x).

libupnp must be configured/built with --enable-ipv6. See scripts/install-pupnp18.sh for details.

On FreeBSD

The following has bee tested on FreeBSD 11.0 using a clean jail environment.

1. Install the required prerequisites as root using either ports or packages. This can be done via Package manager or ports. (pkg manager is used here.) Include mysql if you wish to use that instead of SQLite3.

pkg install wget git autoconf automake libtool taglib cmake gcc libav ffmpeg libexif pkgconf liblastfm gmake

2. Clone repository, build dependencies in current in ports and then build gerbera.

git clone https://github.com/gerbera/gerbera.git 
mkdir build
cd build
sh ../gerbera/scripts/install-pupnp18.sh
sh ../gerbera/scripts/install-duktape.sh
cmake ../gerbera -DWITH_MAGIC=1 -DWITH_MYSQL=0 -DWITH_CURL=1 -DWITH_JS=1 -DWITH_TAGLIB=1 -DWITH_AVCODEC=1 -DWITH_EXIF=1 -DWITH_LASTFM=0 -DWITH_SYSTEMD=0
make -j4
sudo make install

On macOS

The Gerbera Team maintains a Homebrew Tap to allow for easy installation of Gerbera Media Server on macOS.

https://github.com/gerbera/homebrew-gerbera

Quick start build instructions:

git clone https://github.com/gerbera/gerbera.git
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../gerbera -DWITH_MAGIC=1 -DWITH_MYSQL=1 -DWITH_CURL=1 -DWITH_JS=1 \
-DWITH_TAGLIB=1 -DWITH_AVCODEC=1 -DWITH_FFMPEGTHUMBNAILER=1 -DWITH_EXIF=1 -DWITH_LASTFM=1
make -j4
sudo make install

Alternatively, the options can be set using a GUI (make sure to press "c" to configure after toggling settings in the GUI):

git clone https://github.com/gerbera/gerbera.git
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../gerbera
make edit_cache
# Enable some of the WITH... options
make -j4
sudo make install

Dependencies

Lib	Version	Required?	Note	Compile-time option	Default
libupnp	1.8.3	Required	pupnp
libuuid		Depends on OS	On *BSD native libuuid is used, others require e2fsprogs-libuuid
expat		Required
libiconv		Required
sqlite3		Required	Database storage
zlib		Required
duktape	2.1.0	Optional	Scripting Support	WITH_JS	Enabled
mysql		Optional	Alternate database storage	WITH_MYSQL	Disabled
curl		Optional	Enables web services	WITH_CURL	Enabled
taglib	1.11.1	Optional	Audio tag support	WITH_TAGLIB	Enabled
libmagic		Optional	File type detection	WITH_MAGIC	Enabled
ffmpeg/libav		Optional	File metadata	WITH_AVCODEC	Disabled
libexif		Optional	JPEG Exif metadata	WITH_EXIF	Enabled
libexiv2		Optional	Exif, IPTC, XMP metadata	WITH_EXIV2	Disabled
lastfmlib	0.4.0	Optional	Enables scrobbling	WITH_LASTFM	Disabled
ffmpegthumbnailer		Optional	Generate video thumbnails	WITH_FFMPEGTHUMBNAILER	Disabled
inotify		Optional	Efficient file monitoring	WITH_INOTIFY	Enabled

Licence

GPLv2

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>

Copyright (C) 2016-2018
    Gerbera Contributors