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.

Pull requests are very welcome and reporting issues is encouraged.

Gerbera was originally based on MediaTomb

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

• Browse and playback your media via your network on all kinds of devices.
• Web UI with a tree view of the database and the file system, allowing to add/remove/edit/browse your media
• Metadata extraction from MP3, OGG, AAC, M4A, FLAC, JPG (and many more!) files.
• Media thumbnail support
• Highly flexible media format transcoding via plugins / scripts
• Automatic directory rescans (timed, inotify)
• User defined server layout based on extracted metadata
• Supports last.fm scrobbing
• On the fly video thumbnail generation
• Support for external URLs (create links to internet content and serve them via UPnP to your renderer)
• Runs on Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and more!
• Runs on x86, ARM, MIPS, and more!

Docker images are provided on Docker Hub, we recommend running a tagged version.

Stephen Czetty maintains a Ubuntu PPA.

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

Gerbera is available in AUR stable or git version.

Gerbera is avaiable on software.opensuse.org.

Gerbera is included in Testing and Unstable.

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

Gerbera uses CMake.

# Assuming Ubuntu base
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

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.

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

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

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

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) 2016-2019
    Gerbera Contributors