Playon

PlayOn is both browser and media server for your Windows PC which lets you magically stream your favorite shows, movies, even your personal media from your PC to your TV, smartphone or tablet.

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playon is both browser and media server for your windows pc which lets you magically stream your favorite shows, movies, even your personal media from your pc to your tv, smartphone or tablet. to display videos on your tv, playon relies on a friend such as a game console like the xbox 360, playstation 3, wii, wiiu or another supported device like a roku. playon is now also available in hd so you can watch online videos in hd on your tv! playon allows consumers to watch online content from sites like hulu, youtube, netflix, espn and more on their tv using existing game consoles.

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Kodi

Kodi, formerly XBMC, is a free and open source media player and entertainment center for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, XBox, and iOS.

Free Open Source Windows Linux Android iPhone Android Tablet BSD iPad Mac

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Free to play Jailbreak required Built in Media converter Video library Media Streaming Support AirPlay Automatic subtitles download Built in subtitle search DNLA Server Music Library
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Plex

Plex bridges the gap between your computer and your home theater, doing so with a visually appealing user interface that provides instant access to your media.

Freemium

Dedicated Server Hosting Media Streaming DNLA Server Stream audio Media sharing Offline sync of media files Play local content Remote File Access Remote Media Access
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Emby

Emby, formerly Media Browser, is a media aggregator plugin for Media Center that takes your recorded, digital, or ripped media and presents it in a simple, easy to use interface.

Open Source Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone BSD iPad Windows Phone

Chromecast support Media Streaming Remote Media Access Remote playback
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MythTV

MythTV is a free, open source media center and digital video recorder (DVR) distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
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OSMC

OSMC (Open Source Media Center) is a free and open source media player based on Linux and founded in 2014 that lets you play back media from your local network, attached storage and the Internet.

Free Open Source Raspberry Pi tvOS
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Splash

Splash 2.0 lets you watch and convert your videos like never before - superb performance, smooth motion, crisp details and vivid colors.

Freemium Windows
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MediaPortal

MediaPortal transforms your PC into a complete media solution. It runs on basic hardware, connects directly to your TV and displays your TV Series, Movies, Photos and Music in a much more dynamic way.

Free Open Source Windows

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Skinnable
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TVersity

TVersity Media Server is a software package that allows a personal computer to stream content to UPnP devices, such as the Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii, regardless of the codec limitations of the device.

Commercial Windows
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JRiver Media Center

JRiver Media Center is a multimedia application that allows the user to play and organize various types of media on a computer running Windows.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows
27 Like

Infuse

Ignite your video content with Infuse – the beautiful way to watch almost any video format on your iPhone or iPad.

Freemium iPhone iPad
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Moovida

Moovida is transforming the way consumers experience digital entertainment media.

Free Open Source Windows
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Kantaris

kantaris is an all new media player based on code from videolan client (vlc media player) and bass audio library. kantaris has a graphical user interface similar to that of windows media player.

Free Open Source Windows

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for subtitles
8 Like

Semper Media Center

Semper Media Center (SPMC in short) is a Android-minded fork of Kodi, by the former Kodi android maintainer, Koying.

Free Open Source Android
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Freevo

Freevo is an open source HTPC media centre software integrating PVR / DVR funtionality along with music, video, gaming, home automation and more. It is written in python and uses existing popular software such as mplayer, xine and vlc.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
7 Like

DVBViewer

DVBViewer allows you to experience Digital TV on your PC.

Commercial Windows
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VidOn Server

Smartly manage all your multimedia resources and automatically transcode videos for your Phone, Pad, etc.

Free Windows
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Enna

Enna is a Media Center application.

Free Open Source Linux
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Portitle

Portitle Web App is a smart launcher to dozens of movie and TV related websites.

Free Windows Chrome OS
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Easy-Data Mediacenter

Easy-Data Mediacenter is a video and audio player with lots of tools. It is able to deliver bit perfect audio, and does not require any external codecs. It is able to run from a memorystick and does not require installation.

Free Windows

Portable Capture Screen / Take screenshots Batch rename files Built in Media converter Capture image from video

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Plex

Emby

MythTV

OSMC

Splash

MediaPortal

TVersity

JRiver Media Center

Infuse

Moovida

Kantaris

Semper Media Center

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