Open Filmly

Open Filmly is a powerful media management platform similar to Plex, Emby, or Jellyfin, designed to organize and stream your media library. It automatically categorizes your media files, fetches posters and metadata, tracks playback progress, and supports one-click playback with automatic subtitle matching.

⚠️ BETA STATUS: Open Filmly is currently in beta. Some features are still under development and may not be fully functional.

Features

• ✅ Automatic media scanning and categorization
• ✅ Metadata and poster fetching from online sources
• 🚧 One-click playback with integrated media player (in development)
• 🚧 Automatic subtitle detection and matching (planned)
• 🚧 Watch progress tracking (in development)
• ✅ NAS/Samba connectivity for accessing network storage
• ✅ Electron-based cross-platform support

Legend: ✅ Completed | 🚧 In Development

Project Status

Open Filmly is currently in active development. Core functionality for media scanning, categorization, and metadata fetching is working. The media player integration, subtitle matching, and watch progress tracking features are still being developed.

Roadmap:

• Complete the media player integration
• Implement subtitle auto-detection and matching
• Add user watch history and progress tracking
• Improve UI/UX for the media browsing experience
• Add user profiles and preferences

Development

This project uses pnpm as the package manager. Make sure to install pnpm first:

npm install -g pnpm

Install dependencies

pnpm install

Run in development mode

pnpm dev

This will start both the Next.js frontend and the Electron app.

Build for production

pnpm build
pnpm dist

Requirements

• Node.js 16+
• pnpm

Project Structure

• /app - Next.js application
• /electron - Electron main process code
• /components - React components
• /types - TypeScript type definitions