Spiel
Self-hosted player that organizes personal movie and TV files into a browsable library and streams them across devices
It is a self-hosted media player and server that organizes personal movie and TV files from local folders, NAS, cloud drives, and existing media servers into a browsable library with playback across devices. It is for individual consumers who maintain their own media collections and want to watch at home and away. It is delivered as a server for macOS, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD with native TV, mobile and web clients and uses an outbound relay for remote access without port forwarding.
Key features
- Plays MKV and HEVC files
- Server-side transcoding on the fly
- Multiple audio tracks support
- Embedded and sidecar subtitles
- Resume playback across devices
- 10-foot TV interface with poster rows
- Scrubber thumbnail previews
- Skip-intro and auto next-episode
- Automatic artwork and metadata fetching
- Multi-user accounts with separate watch state
- SMB/NAS and NFS support
- WebDAV FTP SFTP support
- Plex Jellyfin Emby integration
- Cloud drive streaming (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.)
- S3-compatible storage support
- Remote access without port forwarding