Vibrefy — a media server that doesn't watch you back

I finally open-sourced something I've been running for myself for a while: Vibrefy, a lightweight, self-hosted media server. Code's up on GitHub: github.com/peprasetya/Vibrefy.

The short version: it streams video from a local library, or from your own cloud storage (currently support: Google Drive, OneDrive, pCloud, or FileLu account), straight to the browser. The server proxies everything, so nothing but the video itself ever leaves it.

Why build another one, when Plex/Jellyfin/Emby already exist?

Two opinions I couldn't shake:

No database. Every media server I've used runs a database in the background — cataloguing, indexing, building a profile of what you watch. Vibrefy doesn't. Configuration lives in one JSON file, and the only per-user state is a small encrypted file that remembers where you left off in something, so it can resume it. That's it. No schema, no service to babysit, no "backup strategy" beyond copying a folder. You can move the whole install by dragging it to another disk.

The honest trade-off: there's no watch history, and nothing being collected to guess what you'll like next. If you want a recommendation engine, this isn't it. If you want something you can fully understand and hand to a friend without explaining a database schema, that's the whole point.

Landscape covers. Every media server inherits the vertical movie-poster look, because that's what DVD boxes and cinema posters happened to be shaped like. It's a strange default for something rendered on a screen. Vibrefy generates its thumbnails in 16:9, matching the video itself — so browsing looks like a shelf of screens, not a shelf of posters.

What it actually does:

• Browse and stream a local library, with resumable playback per file
• Mount your own cloud storage (currently support: Google Drive, OneDrive, pCloud, FileLu) and browse it exactly like a local folder
• Auto-play the next episode of a series
• Subtitles pulled straight out of the video container
• Cast to AirPlay, fullscreen, or Picture-in-Picture straight from the player
• OpenID login, first-run setup, no manual account provisioning, no password.

It's Java EE under the hood — Jakarta Servlets, JSP, vanilla JS, no framework sprawl — MIT licensed. Feedback, issues, and PRs welcome.