mythos

Hello, Mythos

Why I'm building another media server, and what's actually in it right now.

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There are already good media servers in the world. Plex, Jellyfin, Emby — each has earned a place on home servers everywhere. So why a new one?

The honest answer is shape. I wanted a media server that’s a single statically linked binary with the web UI baked in, that doesn’t drag a container runtime or a Node process or a separate database into the room, and that takes streaming seriously enough to do hardware-accelerated HLS without me babysitting it.

Mythos is that — a small Rust workspace with the engineering rigor of a database and the surface area of a CLI tool.

What’s in main today

  • Movies. Library CRUD, filesystem scan via jwalk + ffprobe, TMDb enrichment, browse and detail UI.
  • Streaming. Direct play with HTTP byte ranges, plus HLS transcoding via ffmpeg when the browser can’t decode the file. Multi-rendition ABR.
  • Hardware acceleration. NVENC, QSV, VAAPI, and VideoToolbox are probed and smoke-tested at startup; libx264 is the fallback.
  • Subtitles. Text subs ride along as WebVTT sidecars; image subs (PGS, VobSub) burn in during transcode.
  • Auth. argon2id password hashes, JWT cookies, admin/non-admin split.
  • One binary. SvelteKit build is embedded via rust-embed.

What’s not yet

  • TV, music, photos, books. The schema accepts them; the scanners that fill them in are Phase 3.
  • Jellyfin-API compatibility shim for Findroid / Swiftfin / jellyfin-web — Phase 6.
  • Pre-built binaries and a Docker image. Real v0.1.0 will ship those.

If any of that sounds interesting, the docs walk through the build-from-source path. The source lives on GitLab .