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Serviio

Serviio is a free media server. It allows you to stream your media files (music, video or images) to any DLNA-certified renderer device (e.g. a TV set, Bluray player, games console) on your home network.

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Cost / License

  • Freemium (Pay once)
  • Proprietary

Application type

Platforms

  • Mac  Java 6 required
  • Windows  Java 6 required
  • Linux  Java 6 and FFmpeg required
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Features

  1.  Media Server
  2.  Create Playlist
  3.  Media Streaming
  4.  Stream audio
  5.  Support for subtitles
  6.  Xbox
  7.  Playstation
  8.  Support RAW file formats
  9.  Support for DLNA

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  • macuser707 reviewed Serviio  

    Cheap, one-time license cost. Works great on my old Core2Duo Mac mini. I copy media to the appropriate folder over my LAN and it shows up on my ROKU devices (and even my Walmart Onn device). Can't really see a reason to switch away from Serviio after many years.

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Serviio information

  • Developed by

    Unknown

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.

  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) + free version with limited functionality.

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Serviio, and it has gotten 53 likes

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Comments and Reviews

   
Top Positive Comment
BJ
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Cheap, one-time license cost. Works great on my old Core2Duo Mac mini. I copy media to the appropriate folder over my LAN and it shows up on my ROKU devices (and even my Walmart Onn device). Can't really see a reason to switch away from Serviio after many years.

igorpereira
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Love this media server, 2 years counting in my Atom mini PC serving as media server around the house, always stable.

(+)

  1. Stream's subtitles: Kodi (XMBC) as media server did not streamed subtitles & i did not found any other app that did it correctly, until servioo (mind this was in 2014) , found Serviio and the subtitles were "streamed"; (main TV LG with WebOS using smartshare [DNLA]);
  2. Very simple setup.

(-)

  1. MKV; Some mkv files, are not streamed, and some are, (regarding mkv being a container and not a format i had to demux the files in order to work with the media server).
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What is Serviio?

Serviio is a free media server. It allows you to stream your media files (music, video or images) to any DLNA-certified renderer device (e.g. a TV set, Bluray player, games console) on your home network.

Basic features

  • DLNA 1.5 compatible UPnP media server
  • streams audio, video (SD & HD) and image files in their native format or transcoded in real-time
  • automatically udpates the media library when you add/update/remove a media file or a metadata file
  • wide array of library browsing options
  • supports different editable renderer profiles
  • supports automatic renderer detection (for certain devices)
  • extracts metadata of your media files the way you want it, incl. embedded metadata tags, local metadata files, online metadata sources
  • supports video thumbnails, CD covers, DVD posters, etc.
  • categorizes video files into movie and/or series and marks last viewed episodes of a series
  • available for Windows, Linux and Mac (with the possibility to run the server part one one platform and console on another)

Supported renderers

  • any DLNA-compliant device should work
  • Samsung TVs (supports additional features, e.g. subtitles)
  • Samsung Bluray players
  • Sony TVs
  • Panasonic TVs
  • Playstation 3
  • Xbox 360
  • LG Bluray players (supports subtitles)
  • WDTV Live
  • Oppo BDP-83
  • MusicPal
  • DirecTV DVR
  • ... and many more

Supported media file

  • Audio: MP3( .mp3), Windows Media Audio (.wma)
  • Video: MPEG-1 (.mpg, .mpeg), MPEG-2 PS (.mpg, .mpeg, vob, mod), MPEG-2 TS (.ts, .m2ts), MPEG-4 (.mp4, m4v, mov), AVI (.avi, .divx), Windows Media Video (.wmv, .asf), Matroska (.mkv)
  • Image: JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg)