Serviio - free DLNA media server for Windows, Mac and Linux

Media Streaming Server

Contact

If you need to contact us, send email to zip {at} serviio {dot} org. Note that support is only given on our Forum.

Business licensing

If you are interested in business licensing, send email to the above address. In line with the EULA you are not allowed to use Serviio in a business setup without a proper licence.

Acknowledgements

Products used in Serviio and their licenses

  • This product includes portions of FFmpeg (a great video library) which is licensed under GPL v2.0
  • This product includes LAME MP3 Encoder (a high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder) which is licensed under LGPL v2.0.
  • This product includes x264 which is licensed under GPL v2.0.
  • This product includes software developed by The Apache Software Foundation which is licensed under ASL v2.0.
  • This product includes software developed by the Visigoth Software Society.
  • This product includes Jaudiotagger (an audio tagging library) which is licensed under LGPL
  • This product includes SLF4J (a logging facade) which is licensed under MIT licence
  • This product uses NSIS (an installer packager tool) which is licensed under zlib/libpng licence
  • This product uses Restlet which is licensed under LGPL v2.1
  • This product includes Rome (an RSS library) which is licensed under ASL v2.0.
  • This product includes software developed by the JDOM Project.
  • This product includes librtmp which is licensed under LGPL v2.1.
  • This product includes Winp which is licenced under MIT licence
  • This product includes dcraw
  • This product includes jNAT-PMPlib which is licended under LGPL 3.0
  • This product includes libASS which is licended under New BSD Licence
  • The Software includes aXMLRPC which is licensed under MIT licence
  • The Software includes imgscalr which is licensed under ASL v2.0.

Services used by Serviio

  • This product uses the TMDb API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDb. Please consider contributing to the database.
  • Online subtitles service powered by www.OpenSubtitles.org

Licence

Serviio End User Licence Agreement

© 2009-2022 Petr Nejedly. All rights reserved.

  1. This End User Licence Agreement ("EULA") is a legal agreement between you (either an individual or an entity) (hereinafter "You") and copyright holder or other authorized party (collectively "Company") relating to Your installation and use of the Serviio Media Server software (the "Software"). By installing, copying, or otherwise using the Software, You agree to be bound by the terms of this EULA. If You do not agree to the terms of this EULA, do not install, copy or use the Software.
  2. Permission is granted to You to use this Software, to copy it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions:
      a. The origin of the Software must not be misrepresented; You must not claim that You wrote the Software.
      b. You may not sell, rent, loan or otherwise encumber the Software in whole or in part, standalone or as a part of integrated solutions, to any third party.
      c. The Software is intended for personal use only. Organizations and business entities must purchase a business licence to operate the Software in a business setup.
      d. You may not decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or modify the Software, unless this is strictly for personal use or to debug such modifications. These modifications must not include removing licensing management module.
      e. This notice may not be removed or altered from redistributions.
  3. The Software includes open source software not owned by the Company. The licence terms in this EULA do not apply to those parts. Instead, the licensing terms listed below apply:
      a. The Software includes portions of FFmpeg which is licensed under GPL 2.0
      b. The Software includes software developed by the Visigoth Software Society which is licensed by a BSD-style licence
      c. The Software includes Jaudiotagger which is licensed under LGPL 3.0
      d. The Software uses NSIS which is licensed by zlib/libpng licence
      e. The Software includes SLF4J which is licensed by MIT licence
      f. The Software includes Restlet which is licensed under LGPL 2.1
      g. The Software includes software developed by the JDOM Project (http://www.jdom.org/).
      h. The Software includes LAME MP3 encoder which is licenced under LGPL 2.0
      i. The Software includes librtmp which is licenced under LGPL 2.1
      j. The Software includes Winp which is licenced under MIT licence
      k. The Software includes dcraw
      l. The Software includes jNAT-PMPlib which is licended under LGPL 3.0
      m. The Software includes x264 which is licensed under GPL 2.0

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COMPANY "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COMPANY BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Download

The latest release

The latest released version is 2.4 Pro. Download it here and give it a try. You will get a 15 day evaluation of the Pro edition, after which Serviio automatically reverts to the Free edition.

If you previously purchased a Pro license for version 1.x, it will no longer be valid after you upgrade to 2.x. You can still keep using the latest 1.x release in case you don't want to upgrade.

Release notes are here: Release Notes - 2.4.

Windows serviio-2.4-win-setup.exe 134,099,272 bytes, MD5: 2c41341b4f0ae9b340d277df918cbc00
Mac serviio-2.4-osx.tar.gz 127,293,858 bytes, MD5: 989a4e666ead3ec011206d262e4a3332
Linux serviio-2.4-linux.tar.gz 28,887,039 bytes, MD5: 17f4feb74402d37b74c91c8b9532cc91
QNAP Serviio 2.4 for QNAP Intel 32bit, Intel 64bit, ARM x19, ARM x31, ARM x41+, ARM 64bit
Synology Serviio 2.1 package for Synology NAS

Are you upgrading and wish to keep your media library? Check out how to do it.

By downloading this software you agree to the terms of the End User Licence Agreement. For commercial licence details look at the Contact page.

This release includes FFmpeg (post) 5.1.2 compiled using this source code, libRTMP 2.4+ compiled using this source code, Lame MP3 Encoder (v. 3.99.5) compiled using this source code. Refer to README.txt for the complete list.

Minimal requirements

  • 512 MB of memory or more
  • 150 MB of disk space (plus additional space for storing the media library), when using transcoding make sure there is at least 1GB free (depending on the original file size)
  • if on Linux, Java 8 must be installed. Windows and OSX come with Java runtime aready included in the installation.

Additional information

  • Linux users need to install the FFmpeg package (incl. libRTMP, libASS, libx264 and libmp3lame) for their OS distributions or, ideally, compile FFmpeg using the source files provided above
  • Linux users need to install the dcraw package if they need RAW image support
  • Only 64-bit OSX machines are supported, with OSX 10.8 minimum

Troubleshooting

If you have problems with the latest release, have a look at Getting started guide or let us know in the Support forum.

The legacy release

If you require the latest 1.x release, here are the details. Use this if you have Pro v1 license and don't want to upgrade to v2.

Windows serviio-1.10.1-win-setup.exe 161,814,192 bytes, MD5: 1b40a0bab3228aa91cf1b4f8555c0715
Mac serviio-1.10.1-osx.tar.gz 152,794,145 bytes, MD5: f7294626ac5380040a1abe8c70ba75e7
Linux serviio-1.10.1-linux.tar.gz 28,413,154 bytes, MD5: 24b8b85c91aac76ea654d3dc54486b9e
QNAP Serviio 1.10.1 for QNAP Intel 32bit, Intel 64bit, ARM x19, ARM x31, ARM x41+
Synology Serviio 1.10.1 package for Synology NAS
Asustor Serviio 1.6.1 package for Asustor NAS is available in your NAS App Central
ClearOS Serviio 1.10.1 package for ClearOS