MatineeFree and open source media server
Matinee turns the folders on your server into a beautiful library for the whole household. Point it at your files and it does the rest: artwork and details, smooth playback on every screen, and a place for everyone to pick up where they left off. No ads, and no account on someone else's server.
One Docker command, a package for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora or Homebrew, or a Helm chart.
Movies, TV and music. Matinee names everything from your file and folder names.
Artwork and details fill themselves in, new files appear in seconds, and every screen in the house can watch.
Files a device can play stream exactly as they are, with instant seeking. Everything else is converted on the fly, on your GPU if you have one. Subtitles, resume points and the next episode are all handled for you.
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Filter any library by genre, decade, rating, runtime, cast, studio, 4K or Dolby Atmos. Search as you type across movies, shows and music. Save a set of filters as a smart collection that keeps itself up to date.
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Accounts for the whole household, profiles with "Who's watching?", and kids profiles that only see what's rated for them. Each person keeps their own progress, watch list and theme.
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Posters, backdrops, descriptions, cast and crew, awards, trailers and box sets are filled in for you. Your own artwork always wins.
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Smart collections like "Unwatched 80s action" or "Short enough for tonight", hand-picked lists, and box sets, each one pinnable to Home.
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Matinee quietly reads every file for resolution, HDR and Dolby Vision, codecs, audio channels and languages, then shows the essentials as badges and filters.
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Artists and albums with covers and photos, read from your tags, and a player that keeps going while you browse.
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Seven themes built in, from cinema dark to drive-in, and each person picks their own. The phone and TV apps follow along.
The Matinee apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Apple TV and Google TV find your server on their own, play files with the device's own player, and download for offline viewing with progress that syncs back.
The apps are a one-time purchase. The server stays free and open source, and buying an app is how the project is funded.
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Runs on Linux and macOS, on amd64 and arm64, from a Raspberry Pi to a rack server. Then open http://your-server:7171 and follow the setup.
docker run -d --name matinee -p 7171:7171 \
-v ./data:/data \
-v /path/to/movies:/media/movies:ro \
ghcr.io/yeixio/matinee:latestbrew tap yeixio/matinee https://github.com/yeixio/matinee
brew install yeixio/matinee/matinee
brew services start matineehelm install matinee oci://ghcr.io/yeixio/charts/matinee \
-f my-values.yamlAlso packaged for Debian and Ubuntu and Fedora. All the ways to install →
Your library, your watch history and your accounts live on your server and nowhere else.
The server is AGPL licensed and developed in the open. Read the code, file an issue, or send a fix.
Just your collection, without recommendations for things you don't own.