Software · Video editing

ServeMedia

Personal Media-Center & Home-Theater.

Completely free
Linux
Open source

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Technical details

Pricing: Completely freeconfirmed by Flathub
License: BSD-3-Clause — Open source (permissive)confirmed by Flathub
Open source: Yes
Commercial use: Yesconfirmed by Flathub, Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms)
Account required: not documented
Credit card required: Noconfirmed by Flathub
Watermark: not documented
Ads: not documented
Platforms: LinuxEstablished by Linux: Flathub
Publisher: Aly Shmahell
Latest version: 0.2.4 (26 October 2026)
Latest activity: 7 November 2026
Source code: github.com/AlyShmahell/servemedia

Overview

Features described in its Flathub listing and in its GitHub repository: self-hosting on your own server.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“ServeMedia is The Self-Hosted Media-Center for Linux .” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

ServeMedia is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (BSD-3-Clause) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

Open source code
Commercial use allowed

About

ServeMedia is The Self-Hosted Media-Center for Linux. It is built around a core module called MatchMedia which acts as a statistical engine responsible for directory hierarchy discovery of media libraries, title extraction and grouping, metadata search-and-fetch from providers like TVMaze, statistically scoring and ranking candidates and mapping them to the appropriate files and folder hierarchies. ServeMedia is built to be lightweight, minimal and concise, yet feature-complete for a self hosted media center. ServeMedia can be both: a standalone desktop application with a desktop entry and a webkit wrapped gui on a single device, and a media server which can serve a server-side-rendered frontend over the local network. Compatible files play directly. Other files are transcoded to HLS, on the GPU when the driver check succeeds.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 9 November 2026
Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) — 9 November 2026
Last technical check: 7 November 2026
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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