{"repo":"Sectum2010/Elvern","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/Sectum2010/Elvern","clone":"git clone https://github.com/Sectum2010/Elvern.git","description":"A secure, privately hosted media library that allows fluent playback even under bad web conditions.","language":"Python","stars":18,"topics":["hls-streaming","home-media-server","homelab","media-player","media-server","movie-web-app","movies-streaming","self-hosted","video-player","video-streaming"],"license":"Apache-2.0","category":"self-hosted-apps","readme_excerpt":"Elvern Your private cinema, on your network, on your terms. A secure, self-hosted media library built for families. Fluent 4K/8K playback even under bad web conditions. Why Elvern  ·  Security  ·  Playback  ·  Features  ·  Quick Start  ·  Configuration  ·  Architecture  ·  Roadmap --- ✦ Why Elvern Elvern is a private, family-scale media server that takes the parts of self-hosted streaming that should feel premium — quality, reliability, and control — and stops compromising on them. Most home-server stacks force a choice: stream through a browser and surrender to codec limits and stutter, or hand off to a player and lose your library context. Elvern refuses the trade. It runs a sophisticated adaptive playback engine for the browser path, hands off cleanly to installed VLC when you want reference-grade quality, and keeps everything wrapped behind a private Tailscale-only perimeter so the only people who can ever see your library are the ones you invited. It is built for the way people actually watch movies at home: a parent putting a 4K HDR remux on the living-room TV, a kid resuming a cartoon on a tablet upstairs, an admin checking who's streaming what — without any of that traffic ever crossing the public internet. --- ⚡ Highlights 🔐 Zero public surface Sits entirely on your Tailscale tailnet. No reverse proxy to harden, no port-forward to scan, no public DNS to leak. If you weren't invited to the network,","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/Sectum2010","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/Sectum2010/Elvern/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}