MediaBox is a Linux-based embedded media player. It can stream media via HTTP, uPnP Media Servers, and Bittorrent. A YouTube provider is also on the works. It cannot help you find any media to stream. Except for uPnP Media Servers on the local network, all media must be provided in the form of links through the remote control interface. It can also download some types of media to a local library.

It has a web-based control interface and a TCP/Bluetooth interface for remote control applications. An Android remote app is available and one is on the works for Windows 10.

MediaBox runs on a minimal Linux system with few dependencies. It includes drivers for the X11 server (OpenGL only), Linux DRM (supports software rendering as well as OpenGL), VideoCore IV/Raspberry Pi (fully accelerated, including hardware decoding), and DirectFB. Currently only ALSA is supported for audio output.

The build system is autotools. Ebuilds for Gentoo are available here. The sdk directory includes a script to generate a root image and kernel for a minimal system. It currently uses buildroot as the build system. The sdk directory also includes an emulator script to run the generated images under QEMU and configuration files to generate images for x86_64 and Raspberry Pi Zero.

Binary images for x86_64 and Raspberry Pi zero are in the works.

libavbox a lightweight toolkit for developing embedded multimedia applications. It is currently on the src/lib directory and is linked statically with the mediabox binary but it will be split into a separate library in the near future.