Pixel Brite
Roadmap
What’s complete and what we’re working toward.
Completed
- Backend media server.
- File access over SFTP, SMB, WebDAV, and more.
- Media catalog with movie and TV identification and metadata matching.
- Music identification and metadata matching.
- Web app for browsing and playback.
- Just-in-time multimedia transducer: prepare audio and video as they play.
- Gapless audio playback.
- Adaptive bitrate streaming (ABR): playback quality adjusts to the connection.
- Dolby Vision profiles 5, 7, and 8 and HDR10+ with adaptive bitrate streaming, preserving all HDR metadata.
- AirPlay.
- Picture-in-picture video.
- Live concert recordings from Relisten.
- Alternative text-only / ASCII interface.
- Direct peer-to-peer connections across networks, without manual port forwarding.
- Direct control of Klipsch and Yamaha audio devices, including Klipsch Kontroller.
- Shared remote playback: hand off a queue to another device and control playback together from multiple phones.
In progress & planned
- Native apps for macOS, iPhone, and Apple TV.
- iPhone Duo: native “inside-and-out”.
- Improved interface design.
- CineScribe: generate synchronized subtitles as videos play.
- Shostakovich: find music by describing its sound, create playlists from prompts, and autoplay similar tracks.
- Direct control of Sonos and more audio devices.
- Server-free device-to-device playback: connect devices and combine media from multiple NAS systems into one catalog, accessible from any Pixel Brite client.