What's wrong with the name?
Differences from Plex:
- Watching your own films away from home isn't paywalled, and never will be.
- Hardware encoding is free, and always will be.
- No cloud account required unless you want my convenient discovery service.
- If you don't want to use a cloud account at all, you can set up your own discovery server on your own VPS for watching away from home even through routers and shit (also free).
- No ads, no storefront, no telemetry.
- Watch Together with voice. Multiple people can watch a synced video, and talk to each other (I've tested this with me in Germany and the other person in Australia, and it worked beautifully).
- Hardened against corrupt video files and issues like NFS failures (getting stuck forever in a syscall). Everything vulnerable is separated and isolated.
- Open source. The server is AGPL and the web clients are MPL.
- Your files are left alone. Media is read-only by default. The server reads the .nfo metadata files you already have, from Kodi for example.
What's not there yet:
- Native apps. I'm only doing a web client for the time being until all the features are in place. It's pretty fast, though.
- Music. This comes later.
