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CLUSTER VIDEO-LIBRARY-SELF · 24 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2016-05-20

Self-hosted video libraries

This cluster consists of self-hosted video library applications for organizing, browsing, and streaming personal video collections, with features like per-user watch progress and chapters. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from -- it predates the index or its members are undated. Traction leader is TunarrTube with 9 stars, followed by vlog with 3 stars, then lain with 1 star.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

MAY 2016: 1JUL 2023: 1NOV 2025: 1DEC 2025: 1AUG 2026: 4SEP 2026: 11OCT 2026: 5
MAY 2016OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 ai-built · 1 hand-coded · 18 unlabelled

Operator · 14 hobby · 1 commercial · 1 open source · 4 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01lain1★11 dayslivehobbyA self-hosted media server that streams video from local libraries with metadata enrichment and thumbnail generation.
  2. 02media-bridge-panel5★19 days—Self-hosted media bridge that aggregates multiple streaming sources into an Emby-compatible API for unified search and playback.
  3. 03vlog3★1 moliveai-builthobbySelf-hosted video platform with 4K transcoding, adaptive streaming, auto-transcription, and playlist management for organizing and sharing video content.
  4. 04Giddy1★3 days—hobbySelf-hosted photo and video gallery that lets people browse media across a local network without internet access.
  5. 05kustos1★14 dayslivecommercialSelf-hosted subscription app that manages a Plex media library for a household, automating collections, artwork, cleanup, requests, and watch history.
  6. 06distillarr1★16 days—hobbySelf-hosted media library optimizer that re-encodes video files to reduce storage and improve playback compatibility across devices.
  7. 07king-videos0★17 days—hobbyPrivate family video catalog web app for storing, browsing, and watching home videos.
  8. 08media-view0★8 days—hobbySelf-hosted personal media library web app that organizes and browses an offline media collection on a local server.
  9. 09frame0★2 days—Self-hosted video management platform that organizes and plays personal video libraries.
  10. 10jellymeme0★15 days—Self-hosted video tool that finds a scene in a personal media library from a text description and exports it as a captioned GIF, clip, still, or montage.
  11. 11family-screen0★15 days—hobbyPrivate self-hosted video library for organizing and streaming family videos with per-user watch progress and chapters.
  12. 12bilidown-nas0★9 days—hand-codedhobbyA self-hosted web server that downloads Bilibili videos via QR code login and background tasks for NAS users.
  13. 13notvideos0★20 days—Local-first private video and media library for self-hosting personal collections.
  14. 14nostalgiabuster-video0★8 dayslivehobbyFirst-person multiplayer virtual video store that lets users browse a personal movie and show collection on 90s-style shelves, flip cases, and pick titles with friends.
  15. 15mediachips-bin0★1 moliveopen sourceDesktop application for organizing a personal video library, attaching custom metadata to files, and playing them back.
  16. 16edge-media-shelf0★21 days—hobbySelf-hosted video streaming app that keeps a private media catalog behind access codes and shares watch progress.
  17. 17VodHub0★15 days—hobbySelf-hosted media site that aggregates video from user-configured sources and presents browsable playback through multiple templates and an admin panel.
  18. 18webm-tv0★28 dayslivehobbySelf-hosted video player that streams WebM/MP4 clips from imageboard threads with desktop and mobile interfaces.
  19. 19tele0★1 mo—hobbySelf-hosted media streaming platform that archives personal video libraries in Telegram storage while offering a web app for browsing and playback.
  20. 20Laku-Film0★1 mo—hobbyPersonal video streaming platform that lets users upload and manage movies and series, with automatic file cleanup on deletion.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.