Open-source alternatives to TVBox

Finamp is a remote media player and music streaming client designed to interface with personal music libraries hosted on remote servers. It functions as a client for servers utilizing the Subsonic API standard, including Navidrome, allowing users to stream and control audio content from a mobile device. The application enables remote music management and playback without requiring personal media data to be stored locally. It supports server-side transcoding to ensure compatibility across various audio and video formats. The project includes localization for multiple languages and provides co

Airplay-SDK is a software development kit and wireless multimedia streaming library for implementing AirPlay mirroring and casting functionality on Android devices. It serves as a network media receiver and screen mirroring framework that allows devices to ingest high-resolution audio and video streams over a local network. The toolkit enables the reception of screen mirrors from mobile and desktop devices without requiring sender software. It supports multi-screen casting to manage one-to-many or many-to-one display configurations, including the ability to render up to four different incomin

Android Media is a framework library providing the primary system components for audio and video playback, session management, and media routing on Android. It includes a multimedia API for processing raw media streams, managing MIDI devices, and rendering video frames. The project features a dedicated metadata manager for organizing descriptive labels, content channels, and DRM configurations, alongside a session controller that synchronizes playback state with external controllers and manages media shortcuts for wearable devices. The library covers a broad range of capabilities including a

Miraclecast is a software implementation of the Miracast protocol used for mirroring screens and streaming audio over Wi-Fi. It functions as a wireless display adapter, providing the capabilities of both a Wi-Fi display source that projects local content and a Wi-Fi display sink that acts as a wireless receiver for remote streams. The project includes a peer-to-peer wireless network manager used to discover nearby devices and establish direct Wi-Fi connections. It specifically implements a wireless input backchannel, allowing mouse and keyboard events to be routed from a receiving display bac

hfs is a web-based file server and HTTP file hosting platform that shares local files and folders with remote users through a web browser. It functions as a media streaming server for audio and video content and provides a virtual file system to organize shared web paths independently of the physical disk hierarchy. The platform includes a remote file administrator for monitoring active transfers and managing server settings via secure authentication. It allows for the hosting of static websites and private content with access restrictions based on user accounts or geographic location. The s

Miru is a multimedia content aggregator and proxy-enabled media player that provides a unified interface for streaming videos, reading comics, and browsing novels from multiple external sources. It functions as a JavaScript extension platform, allowing users to add new media sources and application features by integrating custom scripts and provider logic. The application integrates with external media tracking services to synchronize viewing progress and maintain media libraries. It also fetches detailed movie and show information from external databases to enrich content displays with metad

This project is a native Android TV Bilibili client and third-party video player designed for streaming and browsing video content on large screens. It functions as a television-centric media application that enables users to access Bilibili content through an interface optimized for distance and remote control navigation. The application implements remote-optimized navigation to map hardware input to UI focus patterns and utilizes adaptive bitrate switching to adjust video quality based on network conditions. It employs a reactive state management architecture and a type-safe network layer t

This project is a comprehensive reference guide and directory of web browser capabilities. It serves as a technical map for accessing native operating system functions, hardware interfaces, and standard web APIs to bridge the gap between web applications and desktop or mobile environments. The resource provides detailed guidance on implementing Progressive Web App features, including offline caching, push notifications, and native installation prompts. It also catalogs methods for interacting with hardware peripherals via USB, Bluetooth, and NFC, as well as reading raw data from device sensor

This project is a set of utilities for aggregating live broadcast streams and generating standardized playback lists and electronic program guides. It functions as an IPTV playlist generator and a live stream aggregator that consolidates distributed sources into a single manageable list. The system curates live channels and high-definition logos into standardized M3U and TXT formats. It also includes an XMLTV generator to produce electronic program guides containing broadcast schedules and channel information. The toolset covers the processing of raw broadcast data into chronological timelin

AzuraCast is a self-hosted web radio management suite and dashboard designed for internet radio broadcasting. It functions as an automated playback manager and broadcasting system, integrating an audio orchestrator for transcoding and cross-fading with a streaming server to distribute audio via mount points. The platform enables multi-tenant station management, allowing a single installation to host multiple independent radio entities. It distinguishes itself by combining an Auto-DJ broadcast system with the ability to manage live DJ accounts and coordinate real-time broadcasts. The system c

RiMusic is an open-source, cross-platform audio client designed for streaming media from external services. It functions as a comprehensive music player that manages local and imported playlists while providing tools for personalized listening, including history tracking and recommendation support. The application distinguishes itself through integrated support for vehicle dashboard systems, allowing users to control playback and browse their music libraries directly from an in-car interface. It also includes advanced network routing capabilities, enabling users to configure proxy servers to

This project is a cloud drive media aggregator and storage proxy that merges content from multiple cloud storage providers into a unified directory. It functions as an M3U playlist generator, converting cloud files and streaming sources into standardized formats for use in external media players. The system acts as a plugin host for Python-based scripts to fetch and parse content from third-party websites. These operations are supported by a local proxy to accelerate request loading and bypass network restrictions. The software includes a web-based interface for managing server settings and

AmplitudeJS is a JavaScript library and framework for building custom HTML5 audio players. It serves as a client-side playlist manager and media controller that bridges the gap between HTML elements and the Web Audio API, allowing developers to create branded media interfaces without relying on default browser styles. The project is distinguished by its use of CSS-class-based DOM binding and data-attribute state mapping, which links HTML elements directly to playback controls and track metadata. It includes a dedicated visualization system that uses the Web Audio API to render real-time SVG w

SPlayer is a cross-platform music player and local library manager. It serves as a client for self-hosted media servers including Jellyfin, Navidrome, and Emby, while also functioning as a cloud music drive player and a tool for organizing local audio files. The application distinguishes itself through real-time audio spectrum visualization and word-by-word lyrics synchronization. It features a dynamic interface that automatically adjusts its color palette based on the dominant colors of album artwork. The software covers a broad range of media capabilities, including local metadata tag edit

This project is a curated educational resource designed to help developers practice frontend web development through a collection of fifty distinct coding challenges. It provides a structured curriculum focused on building functional applications using React and modern static web technologies, offering project briefs and blueprints that guide learners through the implementation of diverse web interfaces. The collection distinguishes itself by emphasizing full-stack prototyping and real-world integration patterns. Rather than focusing on isolated UI elements, the projects require the integrati

This project is a media streaming server designed for the ingestion, packetization, and distribution of live audio and video content. It functions as a core infrastructure tool for managing real-time media delivery, providing the necessary logic to handle session signaling, bitstream transformation, and the multiplexing of raw data into standardized network packets. The server distinguishes itself through its support for a wide range of industry-standard streaming protocols and container formats. It includes specialized engines for adaptive bitrate delivery, enabling the conversion of raw bit

QtAV is a cross-platform media engine and multimedia framework that combines FFmpeg decoding with the Qt framework for audio and video rendering. It functions as a hardware-accelerated video player, an OpenGL video renderer, and a multimedia stream transcoder. The project distinguishes itself through a hardware-abstraction decoding layer that utilizes GPU interfaces such as VA-API and VideoToolbox to decode high-resolution video. It employs a zero-copy memory transfer path to move decoded video data directly to graphics APIs, reducing CPU overhead and enabling high-performance YUV rendering.

Azure Docs is the official technical documentation repository for Microsoft Azure, the cloud computing platform. It provides comprehensive guidance on the full spectrum of Azure services, covering everything from core infrastructure components like virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters, and serverless computing to platform services for AI, machine learning, data analytics, and storage. The documentation details how to provision, manage, and govern cloud resources at scale, including policy enforcement, identity management, and cost optimization. The documentation distinguishes Azure through i

GPAC is an open-source multimedia framework built around a pluggable filter graph pipeline, where modular processing units called filters connect into a directed graph to handle media workflows. At its core, the framework centers all media packaging and manipulation on the ISO Base Media File Format (ISOBMFF), with specialized tools for reading, writing, fragmenting, and encrypting MP4 and related containers. It also provides a declarative scene graph composition system for describing interactive multimedia scenes using MPEG-4 BIFS, X3D, SVG, or VRML syntax, alongside a hardware-accelerated re

MediaCMS is a self-hosted media content management system designed for hosting, organizing, and distributing video, audio, images, and PDF files. It functions as a digital asset management platform that combines a transcoding pipeline with a server capable of delivering adaptive video streaming. The system is distinguished by its automated media transcoding pipeline, which converts uploaded files into multiple resolutions and codecs and generates automatic transcriptions. It integrates SAML and OAuth identity layers to connect external enterprise identity providers for managing user access an

This project is a multi-room music server and library aggregator that centralizes local audio files and various streaming services into a single unified database. It functions as a media controller for DLNA and UPnP devices, enabling the management of music, podcasts, and audiobooks across networked speakers. The system is distinguished by its ability to synchronize audio playback across multiple speakers and brands simultaneously. It features a digital signal processor for loudness normalization and frequency correction, alongside an acoustic fingerprinting engine used for metadata enrichmen

MPD is a headless music server daemon that indexes audio libraries and streams music to local or remote outputs. It functions as a music library manager and network audio streamer, providing a remote audio control protocol that allows external clients to manage playback, playlists, and database queries. The system acts as a multiroom audio coordinator, synchronizing audio distribution across multiple networked clients and hardware devices. It supports a variety of remote management capabilities, including a dedicated control API and the ability to broadcast audio streams over network protocol

Timber is an Android music application and local media player designed for browsing, searching, and playing audio files stored on a device. It functions as a music library manager that organizes audio collections by metadata and allows for the direct management of local media files. The application follows Material Design guidelines and includes a theme engine for adjusting visual styles, color palettes, and layout configurations. It provides capabilities for audio playback control, playlist management, and audio content search. The system supports network-protocol audio casting to remote ha

RetroMusicPlayer is an Android music player designed to play audio files stored locally on the device, with navigation organized by song, album, artist, and folder based on embedded metadata. It supports streaming audio to remote speakers and responding to external controls for hands-free multi-room playback. The player distinguishes itself with dynamically generated smart playlists that update automatically based on listening history and user-defined rules, backed by a SQLite database. It can parse and display synchronized lyrics from LRC and other time-stamped formats, scrolling in lockstep

Yattee is a privacy-focused video player and multi-backend video aggregator designed for streaming online content without tracking, ads, or account requirements. It functions as a cross-platform application that collects video content from self-hosted servers, third-party APIs, and decentralized platforms into a single interface. The project features SponsorBlock integration to automatically skip sponsored or promotional segments using a community-sourced timestamp database. It also includes an Invidious-compatible API server that can replace standard endpoints to facilitate private playback.

Ampache is a self-hosted media server and digital music library manager written in PHP. It provides a web-based platform for organizing, managing, and streaming personal audio and video collections to multiple devices and network environments. The system distinguishes itself as a collaborative media playback platform, supporting shared playlists and a democratic voting system that allows multiple users to influence an active playback queue. It also functions as a real-time media transcoder, converting audio and video formats during transmission to match client bandwidth and hardware requireme