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# Jellything

Jellything (which is not Jellyfin) is a media streaming server, optimizied for
viewing 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 to large collections (or at least better than Jellyfin does)
- Multiple streaming formats
  - Matroska or WebM (dynamic remux)
  - Original (exact copy from disk, no remuxing)
  - HLS or JHLS (a simplified JSON format)
  - WebVTT standalone subtitles
- Adaptive bitrate and real-time transcoding
- Custom JavaScript video player
- Various metadata source
  - Matroska tags and attachments
  - Trakt
  - TMDB
  - youtube-dl info.json
  - MusicBrainz
  - AcoustID
  - Wikidata (+ images from Wikimedia Commons)
  - TODO: IMDb
  - TODO: tvdb

## Licence

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