LMS - Lightweight Media Server

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

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 libmagick++-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavutil

Build

$ autoreconf -vfi
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ ../configure --prefix=/usr

configure will complain if a mandatory library is missing.

$ make -j 4

Install

$ make install

This command requires root privileges

Running

$ /usr/bin/lms --docroot='/usr/share/lms/docroot/;/resources,/css,/images' --approot=/usr/share/lms/approot --http-address 0.0.0.0 --http-port 5081

It is highly recommended to run LMS as a non root user. The exectuable needs write accesses to the /var/lms/ directory.

Setting up SSL materials (optional)

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

Run:

$ /usr/bin/lms --docroot='/usr/share/lms/docroot/;/resources,/css,/images' --approot=/usr/share/lms/approot --https-address 0.0.0.0 --https-port 5081 --ssl-certificate cert.pem --ssl-private-key privkey.pem --ssl-tmp-dh dh2048.pem

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

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