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Dev tools · October 6, 2026

Kahawai – An open source, modular media system

Kahawai is a self-hosted server for streaming your own movies, series, anime and music. Written in Rust on GStreamer, it plays the cheapest path that works and splits storage and transcoding across machines.

Kahawai – An open source, modular media system launched on October 6, 2026 with 8 votes, #842 of 4,353 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

A self-hosted server for streaming your own movies, series, anime and music. It plays the file as it is whenever it can, and when it can't, it changes only the stream that's in the way . pre-release Latest: v0.0.20-rc.1 · MIT licensed · Rust + GStreamer Kahawai is a media server you run yourself, for media you own. Point it at folders of films, shows, anime and albums; it identifies them, fetches artwork and metadata, and streams them to a browser, an Android phone or a Google TV. Its web interface is compiled into the server binary, its state lives in SQLite, and it needs no external database and no account with anybody. Just one machine? The all-in-one mode runs the hub, a mediahost and a…from kahawai.net

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