LMS is a self-hosted media streaming software, released under the GPLv3 license. It allows you to access your music and your videos using an https web interface.

Features

Winamp-like interface, suited for large databases
Audio/Video transcode for maximum interoperability and low bandwith requirements
User management
LMS API available in Protocol Buffers (see src/lms-api/proto/messages.proto)

Please note LMS is still under development and will gain more features in the future.

LMS is written entirely in C++. Therefore, it is suitable to run on embedded devices, where space and/or memory are limited. Please note some media files may require significant CPU usage to be transcoded.

Dependencies

Debian or Ubuntu packages

$ apt-get install g++ autoconf automake libboost-dev libboost-locale-dev libboost-iostreams-dev libboost-log-dev libavcodec-dev libwtdbosqlite-dev libwthttp-dev libwtdbo-dev libwt-dev libconfig++-dev libjpeg8-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dvegi

If you want to enable the LMS API, you need these additional packages:

$ apt-get install libprotobuf-dev libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler

Warning: your distrib may provide an outdated wt library. Using the latest Wt (>= 3.3.3) is highly recommended (see http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt)

Build

$ autoreconf -vfi
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ ../configure

configure will complain if a mandatory library is missing.

The configure script allows you to disable the LMS API support, see 'configure --help' for more information.

$ make

Setting up SSL materials

This is required by the SSL server and the web server.

Here is just a self signed certificate example, you could do use a CA if you want.

Generate a dh file:

$ openssl dhparam -out dh2048.pem 2048

Generate a self signed certificate:

$ openssl req -x509 -out cert.pem -keyout privkey.pem -newkey rsa:4096

Running

In the build directory:

$ ./src/lms lms.conf

Create the lms.conf file using the etc/lms.sample.conf

"ui.resources.approot" has to refer to the ui/approot/ directory.
"ui.resources.docroot" has to refer to the ui/docroot/ directory You must also link Wt's docroot (usually located in /usr/share/Wt) into that directory. Example:

ln -s /var/lms/docroot/resources /usr/share/Wt/resources

Depending on your SSL parameters, you may be asked for the PEM passphrase to unlock the private key.

Credits

Wt (http://www.webtoolkit.eu/)
bootstrap3 (http://getbootstrap.com/)
libav project (https://www.libav.org/).
Protocol Buffers (https://github.com/google/protobuf/) 73,1 Bot