Matinee v0.1.1

A big update to the server and web player: music gets a proper library and player, Matinee now speaks 32 languages, plugins arrive with the Arcade, and it's easier and safer to watch away from home. The phone and TV apps are out in the stores and work with everything here.

Security

• Password guessing is slowed down. After a few wrong passwords for a name, or many from one address, Matinee makes each next try wait longer, up to 15 minutes. Sign-ins from your home network are never held up, so nobody outside can lock your household out.
• Servers prove who they are. The apps now check that an address found away from home really belongs to your server before sending your sign-in to it. Update the server and the apps together.

New

• Music, revamped: tabs for albums, artists and songs, album and artist pages, and a player that keeps going while you browse, with a queue.
• 32 languages across the web player and the apps, with titles and descriptions in each profile's language.
• Plugins: add new kinds of media and players. The first one, the Arcade, plays your MAME games in the browser. Developers get a guide, the matinee-plugin tool and test helpers.
• Home Assistant: see what's playing, and pause, play or stop from Home Assistant, through the new integration and live events.
• Casting: Chromecasts play straight from the server.
• Sleep timer in the player.
• Discover (optional): browse and request new titles through Overseerr.
• Holiday rows on Home in the weeks before Valentine's Day, Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Eve. Admins can turn them off.
• See more on rows that have more titles than they show.
• Coming soon in the phone and TV apps, with a calendar.

Better

• Watching away from home: apps find your server again after its address changes, and tell you when away-from-home watching is ready. Matinee Connect, a prepaid subscription, looks up your server's address; your video always goes straight from your server to you.
• Remote access is offered when your public address only leads home, including through the Helm chart's ingress.
• TMDB key in Settings: admins can set or change the key without touching config.
• Only home network addresses are announced on the local network.
• Several apps can stay signed in and playing at once without getting stuck.
• Every server has a lasting id, and admins can see each library's title and file counts.

Install and docs

• NAS app stores: entries for Unraid, Umbrel, ZimaOS and TrueNAS, and a NAS install guide.
• A website and user guide at matinee.yeix.io, versioned with each release, with screenshots from a real library.
• The Helm chart is listed with its license, links and icon on Artifact Hub.
• Privacy policy and support pages for the apps.

Updating

Packages, the Docker image and the Helm chart update as usual; database changes apply on start. See Updating in the guide.

If Matinee helps you, you can support it.

Install

• Docker: docker pull ghcr.io/yeixio/matinee:0.1.1
• Kubernetes: helm install matinee oci://ghcr.io/yeixio/charts/matinee --version 0.1.1
• Homebrew (macOS, Linux): brew tap yeixio/matinee https://github.com/yeixio/matinee && brew install yeixio/matinee/matinee
• Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL: add the apt or dnf repository as the README shows, or install the .deb or .rpm below. Either runs Matinee as a service on port 7171.
• Single binary: download the archive for your system below. FFmpeg must be on the PATH.

What's Changed

• Add a privacy policy for the apps and a support page by @gopherstein in #91
• Announce only home network addresses on the local network by @gopherstein in #92
• Show a row for a holiday coming up on Home by @gopherstein in #93
• Add a Discover tab backed by Overseerr by @gopherstein in #94
• Show Matinee in 32 languages by @gopherstein in #95
• Add the website and a versioned user guide with screenshots by @gopherstein in #96
• Add the phone and TV apps' text in 32 languages by @gopherstein in #97
• Publish the Homebrew formula for 0.1.0 by @github-actions[bot] in #90
• Add See more to rows with more titles than they show by @gopherstein in #98
• Screenshots from a real library, and the guide's screenshots in the README by @gopherstein in #99
• Guide and README: screenshots from a real library by @gopherstein in #100
• Donate button and the TMDB key goal by @gopherstein in #101
• Site: add robots.txt pointing to the sitemap by @gopherstein in #102
• Settings: admins can set the TMDB key by @gopherstein in #103
• Guide and README: set the TMDB key in Settings by @gopherstein in #104
• Remote access: find servers after their address changes, without a relay by @gopherstein in #105
• Make Matinee Connect a prepaid subscription by @gopherstein in #106
• Describe Matinee as a self-hosted media server for search engines by @gopherstein in #107
• Catalog and guide: Coming soon in the phone and TV apps by @gopherstein in #108
• Remote access for servers whose address only works at home by @gopherstein in #109
• Tell the apps when watching away from home is ready by @gopherstein in #110
• Add a plugin framework by @gopherstein in #117
• Add the Arcade plugin by @gopherstein in #118
• Add a sleep timer to the player by @gopherstein in #119
• chart: add Artifact Hub metadata by @gopherstein in #120
• Plugin developer guide, matinee-plugin tool and SDK helpers by @gopherstein in #121
• Live events and remote control for players, for Home Assistant by @gopherstein in #122
• packaging: NAS app store entries and an Install on a NAS guide by @gopherstein in #123
• Let Chromecasts play from the server, and document casting by @gopherstein in #124
• Document who has to sign in, at home and away by @gopherstein in #129
• Revamp music: a library to browse, a player that keeps going, and a queue by @gopherstein in #132
• Slow down password guessing, and let servers prove who they are by @gopherstein in #133

New Contributors

• @github-actions[bot] made their first contribution in #90

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.1.1

Arcade plugin 1.0.0

The arcade plugin for Matinee, with MAME 0.289. Install it in Settings → Plugins. See https://matinee.yeix.io/docs/server/arcade/.

Matinee v0.1.0

The first public release of Matinee: a fast, self-hosted media server for your movies, TV and music. Point it at your folders and it does the rest: tidy libraries, artwork and details, and smooth playback on any screen. No ads, and no account on someone else's server.

Matinee is early. The server and web player are ready for everyday use at home; the phone and TV apps are in testing and will follow.

Highlights

• Libraries for movies, TV and music, named from your file and folder names, with posters, descriptions, cast and crew, awards, trailers and related titles from TMDB (bring your own free key) or your own artwork files.
• Plays anywhere. Files the browser can play stream as they are; everything else is converted on the fly to HLS with FFmpeg, on the GPU when there is one (AMD and Intel through VA-API, NVIDIA NVENC, Intel Quick Sync, or VideoToolbox on a Mac).
• Subtitles from the file or from files next to it, with picture subtitles burned in when needed.
• New files show up in seconds: Matinee watches local disks and checks network shares cheaply every 30 seconds.
• Knows what's in every file: resolution, HDR and Dolby Vision, codecs, audio channels, Atmos and languages, shown as badges and usable as filters.
• Find anything: search as you type, and filter and sort libraries by any detail.
• Collections: smart collections built from rules, hand-picked ones, box sets from TMDB, and pinned rows on Home.
• People, profiles and kids mode: accounts for everyone, profiles with optional PINs, and kids profiles that only see titles rated for them.
• Picks up where you left off, with a watch list, Continue watching and Recently added for each person.
• Seven themes and support for your own.
• Easy to reach: devices on your home network can watch without signing in, apps find the server by themselves, and remote access works without touching your router.
• Radarr and Sonarr (optional): requests, coming soon, problem reports and quality changes.
• Offline downloads prepared on the server for the upcoming apps.

Getting started

Install Matinee with one of the options below, open http://<your server>:7171, create the admin account, and add your media folders under Settings. The README walks through each install method, the TMDB key, hardware transcoding and remote access.

Signed apt and dnf repositories use the key with fingerprint 4EE3 3F8C EE07 6BB0 C9A7 C559 21F5 BE9F 726A 2895.

Found a bug or have an idea? Open an issue. Contributions are welcome; see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Install

• Docker: docker pull ghcr.io/yeixio/matinee:0.1.0
• Kubernetes: helm install matinee oci://ghcr.io/yeixio/charts/matinee --version 0.1.0
• Homebrew (macOS, Linux): brew tap yeixio/matinee https://github.com/yeixio/matinee && brew install yeixio/matinee/matinee
• Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL: add the apt or dnf repository as the README shows, or install the .deb or .rpm below. Either runs Matinee as a service on port 7171.
• Single binary: download the archive for your system below. FFmpeg must be on the PATH.

What's Changed

• Matinee server, web player and Helm chart by @gopherstein in #1
• Add subtitles: sidecar and embedded tracks, burn-in for PGS/VobSub by @gopherstein in #17
• Give Matinee its own look by @gopherstein in #22
• ci: publish multi-arch image to ghcr.io from main by @gopherstein in #23
• Zero-setup install: generated DB credentials, built-in TMDB key, media folder picker by @gopherstein in #24
• Fix adding a library on phones; README TMDB key walkthrough by @gopherstein in #27
• Fix adding a library on phones; log rejected API requests by @gopherstein in #28
• Keep playback going while scrubbing a transcoded file by @gopherstein in #29
• Music metadata, TV season details, hide unplayable files, faster libraries by @gopherstein in #39
• Get the server ready for apps: code sign-in, /api/v1, release tags by @gopherstein in #40
• Contributor docs, issue forms, PR template and labels by @gopherstein in #52
• Describe Matinee on its own terms by @gopherstein in #53
• Feature form: don't name other media servers by @gopherstein in #54
• Ship Matinee as Homebrew, apt and dnf/yum packages by @gopherstein in #55
• Offline downloads: server jobs, resumable verified files, progress sync by @gopherstein in #56
• Announce the server on the local network so the apps find it by @gopherstein in #59
• Let devices on the home network watch without signing in by @gopherstein in #60
• Add a watch list and let people remove items from Continue watching by @gopherstein in #61
• Connect Radarr and Sonarr: requests, coming soon, quality and problem reports by @gopherstein in #62
• Publish an edge branch that follows passing main builds by @gopherstein in #64
• Find Radarr's and Sonarr's URL base when connecting by @gopherstein in #65
• Serve 4K-ready art to TVs and start growing HLS streams at the beginning by @gopherstein in #66
• Transcode on the GPU when there is one by @gopherstein in #67
• Analyze every file in the background for quality, sound and languages by @gopherstein in #68
• Home: new releases and a few genre rows that change each day by @gopherstein in #75
• Add trailers for movies, shows and seasons by @gopherstein in #74
• Cast, crew, awards, more details and related titles by @gopherstein in #76
• Fail the database setup hook instead of waiting forever by @gopherstein in #77
• Themes: seven built in, custom theme files, and an Appearance picker by @gopherstein in #78
• Change your own password, and let admins reset or remove accounts by @gopherstein in #79
• Filter and sort libraries by any metadata by @gopherstein in #82
• Profiles with kids mode and PINs by @gopherstein in #83
• Smart collections, manual collections and box sets by @gopherstein in #84
• Pick up new files within seconds: watch library folders by @gopherstein in #81
• Remote access without router setup by @gopherstein in #80
• Publish the package signing key's fingerprint by @gopherstein in #85
• Auto-play the next episode with an up-next countdown by @gopherstein in #88
• Release notes for v0.1.0 by @gopherstein in #87

New Contributors

• @gopherstein made their first contribution in #1

Full Changelog: https://github.com/yeixio/matinee/commits/v0.1.0