cmyflix
Minimalist Plex/Jellyfin alternative to stream video.
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Still maintained? Slowing: no commits in the last 90 days, last push Dec 2025.
Comparisons in Media Streaming - Multimedia Streaming: Plex Pass alternatives.
At a glance
cmyflix quick facts
- Health score
- 38/100 STALE
- Stars
- 195
- Last commit
- 11 months ago (Dec 2025)
- Latest release
- 0.27, Dec 2025
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "cmyflix is also a complete rewrite of my original using C, so it's about 30x faster than the original whilst keeping almost all functionality."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
cmyflix scores 38/100, #14 of 17 in Media Streaming - Multimedia Streaming: 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the latest release (0.27, 11 months ago) earns 18.7 of 25, 195 stars add 9.2 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 35.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 0.0 / 35
0 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 18.7 / 25
0.27 released 11 months ago
- Stars 9.2 / 20
195 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 2
- Last 12 months
- 11 months ago
- Last push
Ranked #14 of 17 tools in Media Streaming - Multimedia Streaming by health , between µStreamer (#13) and üWave (#15) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | C, deb |
| Latest release | 0.27 · 11 months ago |
| Stars | 195 |
| Open issues | 0 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | farfalleflickan/cmyflix ↗ |
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cmyflix: common questions
Is cmyflix still maintained?
cmyflix had 0 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 11 months ago; the latest tagged release, 0.27, is from 11 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.