Personal media server

Your library, at full quality. No ads, ever.

Wren TV plays your movies and shows exactly as they were made. Dolby Vision and Atmos pass through untouched, and the server only transcodes when a device really can't play the file.

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Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

4KDolby VisionAtmos

MethodDirect play

VideoHEVC · DV Profile 8 · original

AudioE-AC-3 JOC 7.1 · passthrough

Bitrate62 Mbps · untouched

The playback ladder

The best version your screen can take

Each play request walks down the ladder and stops at the first step that works. Most plays never get past step one.

Direct playThe original file, byte for byte.
Lossless remuxRepackaged to HLS/fMP4. Dolby Vision, HDR10 and Atmos are kept.
Lossless audioTrueHD and DTS become ALAC while the HDR video stays native.
Play anythingApps with libmpv play even DV Profile 7 directly.
TranscodeHardware-accelerated, and only as a last resort.

Features

Small, fast and yours

Fast scanning

Only new or changed files are touched. Titles appear instantly from file names while metadata fills in, and watched folders pick up new episodes in seconds.

Torrents and Real-Debrid

Add a magnet and press play. Cached torrents come from Real-Debrid; everything else streams in playback order from the built-in engine. Wren TV never seeds.

Hardware transcoding

VideoToolbox, NVENC, Quick Sync, VAAPI and AMF, detected automatically. HDR-to-SDR tone mapping runs on the GPU.

Accounts and sharing

Picks up where you left off

Continue watching, up-next episodes, chapters and skip intro/credits markers, synced across every device.

No ads, no tracking

No ad rows, no rentals and no telemetry. Your server, your files, your watch history.

Install

One small binary, or one container

Wren TV is a single Go binary that runs as a system service. It needs ffmpeg (the Docker image bundles it).

Mount your media read-only. Config and the database live in /config. Pass /dev/dri or an NVIDIA GPU through for hardware transcoding.

services:
  wrentv:
    image: ghcr.io/ltagroup/wrentv:latest
    container_name: wrentv
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports: ["32500:32500"]
    volumes:
      - ./config:/config
      - /path/to/media:/media:ro

docker compose up -d

Install ffmpeg from your package manager, then install Wren TV as a systemd service.

sudo ./wrentv install
sudo ./wrentv status

Install ffmpeg with Homebrew, then run Wren TV as a launchd service. VideoToolbox handles transcoding. A native Mac app is on the way.

brew install ffmpeg
sudo ./wrentv install

Put ffmpeg.exe on your PATH, then install Wren TV as a Windows service from an administrator prompt.

wrentv.exe install
wrentv.exe start

Then open http://<your-server>:32500, sign in with your Wren TV account and claim the server with the code from its log. Builds are available to early-access testers while Wren TV is in development.

Watch anywhere

Your server streams to you. We stay out of the way.

Sign in at watch.wrentv.com to see every server you own or that friends have shared with you. Video goes straight from that server to your browser: this website never sees, stores or relays your media.

Open the web player

Built in the open, soon

The Wren TV server lives on GitHub. The repository is private during early development; if you'd like to test it, ask for access.

GitHub (private beta)