Credits
Website footage
The view of Earth at the top of our home page is footage taken from the International Space Station, courtesy of NASA (“Earth from Space in 4K – Expedition 65”, NASA Johnson Space Center), which is in the public domain. NASA does not endorse Silux Media.
City facts on our streaming pages (region, population, time zone, coordinates, elevation) come from GeoNames (geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0; daylight hours and local times are calculated from them.
Real footage behind our Features, How to set up, News and Download pages comes from Wikimedia Commons and is free of copyright: waves on Saint Mary Lake, Glacier National Park (U.S. National Park Service, public domain) — source; Lower Falls of the Yellowstone (U.S. National Park Service, public domain) — source; sunrise at Swiftcurrent Lake, Glacier National Park (U.S. National Park Service, public domain) — source; lenticular cloud over Longs Peak, Colorado (CC0, by Stepleton) — source. None of these sources endorses Silux Media.
All other moving backgrounds, scenes and imagery on this website are original works created by Silux Control UK Ltd T/A Silux Media and are © 2026 Silux Control UK Ltd T/A Silux Media. They contain no third-party film footage, stock footage, people or brands.
Benchmark test clips
Our bandwidth benchmarks (and a short clip of Tears of Steel in our help videos) used the Blender Foundation's open movies Tears of Steel, Sintel and Big Buck Bunny (© Blender Foundation, CC BY 3.0), which are widely used as standard test material. The Blender Foundation does not endorse Silux Media.
Open-source software
Silux Media is built with FFmpeg (LGPL/GPL), SVT-AV1 (BSD), x264/x265 (GPL), libopus (BSD), Go, Node.js, Next.js, React, Fastify, Prisma, PostgreSQL and Flutter. Licence texts for components shipped with our downloads are included in each package.
Trademarks
Plex, Jellyfin, Emby and Kodi are trademarks of their respective owners and are mentioned only for factual comparison. Silux Media is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
