PearCinema: Self-Hosted Video

PearCinema plays the film and television collection on a machine you own - an Umbrel, a NAS, an old desktop - from anywhere, over a direct encrypted connection between your phone and that machine. No port forwarding, no VPN, no dynamic DNS, no account, and no copy of your library in anyone's cloud. Your files never leave your hardware: they stream through the live connection while they play, and you can skip to any point in a film straight away. PLEASE READ FIRST PearCinema needs that machine running the free PearCinema host, which is the source of the films. It is not a player for files stored on your phone. So that you can look around before you have one, the app comes with four short public-domain films and nothing else. If you do not have a server yet, someone else can let you into theirs. PEARCINEMA PROVIDES NO CONTENT PearCinema is a player for files you already have. It hosts…