Jellyfin
Media server for audio, video, books, comics, and photos with a sleek interface and robust transcoding capabilities. Almost all modern platforms have clients, including Roku, Android TV, iOS, and Kodi.
High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.
Commit activity more than 89% of tracked projects; popularity more than 97%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 58k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v12.1 · 15 Sept 2026 |
| Repo updated | 27 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | GPL-2.0 |
| Built with | C#, deb, Docker |
Is Jellyfin actively maintained?
Jellyfin is under active development: 1952 commits landed over the last 11 months, averaging roughly 271 commits a month in the most recent quarter.
The most recent tagged release, v12.1, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
Of the 17 projects we track in Media Streaming - Multimedia Streaming, Jellyfin ranks #2 by health score — in the top quarter of its category.
What Jellyfin actually does
Jellyfin is a self-hosted media server that indexes and streams audio, video, books, comics, and photos over a network. It processes media files for playback and provides client applications for various modern hardware platforms.
Best fit: Users who want to centralise their personal media collections and stream them across multiple devices without relying on third-party cloud services.
Worth knowing: Transcoding high-bitrate media files can demand significant CPU or GPU resources from your host server depending on the client compatibility.
Deployment notes
You can typically run this software inside a container using Docker or via native deb packages, and you will usually need to mount persistent volumes for your media library and configuration data.
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