Serviio is a DLNA compatible media server. Serviio is a free DLNA compatible media server. It allows you to stream your media files (music, video or images) to any DLNA-certified renderer device (e.g. a TV set, games console) on your home network.

Serviio uses a priority-based metadata extraction so that you can choose what metadata should describe your media files (e.g. audio track name, DVD cover, TV series and episodes names, etc.). These include metadata embedded into the media files themselves, locally stored metadata files and metadata that can be obtained online. With this strong tool you will be able to build your Serviio media library easily and impactfully.
Serviio works with any DLNA compliant device (TV, Playstation 3, etc.) and some other (XBox 360). It supports profiles for particular devices so that it can be tuned to maximise the devices potential and/or minimize lack of media format playback support (via transcoding).
With Serviio you get an easy-to-use solution for streaming your multimedia files.

Serviio Features:
1. DLNA 1.5 compatible UPnP media server
2. streams audio, video (SD & HD) and image files in their native format or transcoded in real-time
3. automatically udpates the media library when you add/update/remove a media file or a metadata file
4. wide array of library browsing options
5. supports different editable renderer profiles
6. supports automatic renderer detection (for certain devices)
7. extracts metadata of your media files the way you want it, incl. embedded metadata tags, local metadata files, online metadata sources
8. supports video thumbnails, CD covers, DVD posters, etc.
9. categorizes video files into movie and/or series and marks last viewed episodes of a series
10. available for Windows, Linux and Mac (with the possibility to run the server part one one platform and console on another)

Supported renderers:
1. any DLNA-compliant device should work
2. Samsung TVs (supports additional features, e.g. subtitles)
3. Samsung Bluray players
4. Sony TVs
5. Panasonic TVs
6. Playstation 3
7. Xbox 360
8. LG Bluray players
9. WDTV Live
10. Oppo BDP-83
11. MusicPal
12. DirecTV DVR

Supported media files:
1. Audio: MP3( .mp3), Windows Media Audio (.wma)
2. Video: MPEG-1 (.mpg, .mpeg), MPEG-2 PS (.mpg, .mpeg, vob, mod), MPEG-2 TS (.ts, .m2ts), MPEG-4 (.mp4, m4v, mov), AVI (.avi, .divx), Windows Media Video (.wmv, .asf), Matroska (.mkv)
3. Image: JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg)

Before installation
1. Make sure your environment complies with minimal requirements.
2. Java 6 (or higher) program must be installed on your machine. If it is not, Windows Serviio installer will download it for you. On the other systems (Mac, Linux) you need to make sure it is present.
3. Linux users must install FFmpeg via their OS distribution package manager.

Installation
1. Windows users can simply run the downloaded installer and go through the wizard.
2. Linux users need to unpack the installation package to a desired location.
3. Mac users need to unpack the software package to a desired location.

The server starts automatically after Windows start (as a service). Run ServiioConsole to start the console. Alternatively you don't have to start Serviio as a service but use bin/serviio.bat (with -stop attribute to stop a running instance).

You can select the appropriate profile on the Status tab. If you select Automatic profile detection Serviio will try to guess what device is talking to it and pick the proper profile automatically. This is useful if you have different devices on your network that you want to be served by Serviio. Automatic detection is currently supported for:
* Playstation 3
* XBox 360
* DirecTV
All unrecognized devices in the automatic detection mode will default to Generic DLNA profile.

Requirements:
* Java 6 installed

The license of this software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this server utility software.