What is OpenFLIXR?
OpenFLIXR is an open-source media server application designed for managing and streaming personal media libraries. It allows users to organize, catalog, and access their collections of videos, music, photos, and other digital media files from any device on their home network.
Some key features of OpenFLIXR include:
- Automatic media library organization based on metadata
- Intuitive web-based dashboard for browsing, searching and playing media
- Transcoding capabilities to stream content to devices
- Support for major multimedia formats and online services
- User and device access control permissions
- APIs for integration with other applications
- Active open-source development community
By handling media ingestion, metadata management, storage structure and multi-device delivery, OpenFLIXR aims to simplify home media server deployment. Its focus on usability allows even less technical users to set up centralized access to their personal media libraries across PCs, phones, media streamers and smart TVs. The free and open-source model provides flexibility for custom integrations.