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# Jellything

Jellything (not to be confused with "Jellyfin") is a media streaming software,
optimizied for serving movies and such.

## Documentation & Guide

See [the Book](https://jellything.metamuffin.org/book/).

## Features

**Note:** Currently still suffering from unknown bugs during video playback.
And while they do not completely break playback they are pretty annoying. Please send help.

- A functional and visually appealing user interface
- Remuxing media on-the-fly to avoid downloading unneccesary tracks.
- Scales well (or at least better than Jellyfin) to large collections
- Multiple streaming formats
  - Matroska or WebM (dynamic remux)
  - Original (exact copy from disk, no remuxing)
  - HLS or JHLS (our own simplified JSON format)
  - WebVTT and JVTT standalone subtitles
- Adaptive bitrate and real-time transcoding
- Custom JavaScript video player
- Various metadata source
  - Matroska tags and attachmentss
  - Trakt
  - TMDB
  - youtube-dl info.json
  - MusicBrainz (TODO)
  - IMDb (TODO)
  - tvdb (TODO)

## Licence

The Licence is AGPL-3.0-only, see `COPYING`