Jellyfin is a personal media server. The Jellyfin project was started as a result of Emby's decision to take their code closed-source, as well as various philosophical differences with the core developers. Jellyfin seeks to be the free software alternative to Emby and Plex to provide media management and streaming from a dedicated server to end-user devices.
For further details, please see [our wiki](https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/wiki). To receive the latest project updates feel free to join [our public chat on Matrix/Riot](https://matrix.to/#/#jellyfin:matrix.org) and to subscribe to [our subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/).
While our first priority is a stable build, we will eventually add features that were missing in Emby or were not well implemented (technically or philosophically).
NOTE: When building from source, only cloning the full Git repository is supported, rather than using a `.zip`/`.tar` archive, in order to support submodules.