Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
Streaming that survives bad connections
Adaptive quality, every 3 seconds
Six quality levels from 240p to 1080p HQ. Silux measures your line continuously and switches mid-film without a pause.
Up to 62% less data
AV1, HEVC and Opus with quality-capped encoding — same picture as Plex, Jellyfin and Emby with far fewer bytes.
Never over your limit
Set a cap for mobile data or a shared line and Silux stays under it. Competitors overshot theirs in our tests.
Works upload-limited
Designed around the 1–10 Mbps upload most homes actually have — HD from 0.7 Mbps.
Fast line? Best picture
With bandwidth to spare, quality climbs automatically to 1080p HQ. Turn on Best quality and your original file streams untouched — up to 4K — whenever your connection and screen can take it.
Your server, your rules
Runs on what you have
Windows, macOS, Ubuntu, Debian, Docker and NAS. An old laptop or a £150 mini PC is plenty.
No graphics card needed
Fast on an ordinary CPU; uses Intel Quick Sync, NVIDIA or AMD automatically when present — free.
Overnight optimiser
Optionally prepares lean versions of your library while you sleep, at the lowest priority, so streaming later costs almost no CPU.
Plays almost anything
MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI and 20+ more formats, including phone video, camcorder files and DVD rips.
Everywhere you watch
Apps for every screen
iPhone, iPad, Android, Apple TV, Fire TV, Android TV, Google TV, Samsung and LG TVs, Windows, macOS, Ubuntu and Debian — plus any modern web browser.
Remote streaming, free
Watch your own films away from home at no charge, via port forwarding, VPN or your own relay.
Managed connections (Plus)
Prefer zero setup? Plus connects securely behind any router or mobile network, with an encrypted relay fallback.
Unlimited users and streams
Share with your household — limited only by your own hardware.
Made for families
Parental Control
Lock any folder with a 4–8 digit PIN. It disappears from every TV, phone and computer until the PIN is entered on that device — enforced by the server, so it can't be bypassed.
Users and admins
The account holder is the admin. Add family as users who browse and watch, or as admins who can also manage and delete — deleting only happens in the web app.
Sign in a TV with a code
No typing passwords with a remote: the TV shows a code and you approve it in the phone app (Account → Link a TV).
Download for offline
Save films, episodes and songs on your phone, tablet or laptop and watch on a plane with no connection.
Play all and autoplay
Play a whole folder or a whole series back-to-back without touching the remote — or switch autoplay off.
Films, TV, music, photos and books
One library for everything, with a built-in EPUB and PDF reader that remembers your page.
My List and search
Save titles for later and find anything by title, show, artist or album.
Everything the others charge for — free
Skip Intro and Skip Credits
One press skips the opening titles; in the end credits it jumps to the next episode. Found from chapters, or marked once for a whole series. Auto-skip if you like.
Chapters and seek previews
Jump between chapters, and see a picture of where you'll land while scrubbing — including native thumbnails on Apple TV.
Sleep timer and rewind on resume
Pause after 15–90 minutes or at the end of the title. Resuming starts 5 seconds back so you never miss a line.
Watch together
Start a watch party, share a 6-letter code, and play, pause and seek stay in step on every device — phones, TVs and browsers.
Live TV and recording
From your TV aerial tuner (HDHomeRun tuners are found automatically) or your TV provider's channel list, with a TV guide; channels are re-encoded to lean 720p/480p/360p so they play on slow lines.
DLNA for TVs and consoles
Smart TVs, PlayStation, Xbox and media players at home find your server with no app — PIN-protected folders never appear.
Playlists, shuffle and repeat
Personal playlists of films, episodes, songs and audiobooks on every device; shuffle films, shows and music; repeat all or one.
Synced lyrics
Songs with .lrc or tagged lyrics show them line by line as they play — tap a line to jump there.
Audiobooks
Their own section, chapters, 0.75–2× speed, sleep timer to the end of a chapter, and your place kept on every device.
Photo albums and slideshows
Every folder is an album; slideshows every 3, 5 or 10 seconds on phones, computers and TVs.
Camera upload
Admins send photos and videos from the phone or computer app straight into the library; uploads resume after a dropped connection.
Versions, trailers and extras
A 4K and a 1080p copy show as one film with a version picker; trailers, featurettes and deleted scenes sit on the film's page.
Posters, plots, ratings and subtitles
Reads .nfo files from Kodi, Radarr and Sonarr; album art from the Cover Art Archive; posters and plots from TMDB and subtitles from OpenSubtitles with your free keys.
Age limits per person
Give anyone a content limit (G/U, PG, 12, PG-13, 15, R): titles above it vanish for them on every device.
Backup, restore and webhooks
Download everything that makes your server yours in one file and restore it on a new machine; webhooks tell other apps about new media.
Private by design
Your files never leave home
Self-hosted media stays on your disks. We don't see, scan or index your library.
Encrypted relay
When a relay is needed, the stream is encrypted end to end — the relay only forwards bytes.
No lock-in
Your files stay in their original format and folders. Back up your people, PINs, progress, playlists and settings any time in one file.
Managed cloud when you want it
Silux Media Cloud hosts your library on our servers in the UK/EU — no hardware to maintain. Your own isolated server, its library encrypted with your passphrase.