Open-source notice
Effective November 3, 2026. Home Media Hub includes ffmpeg. Which license it’s under, and where to get the source.
What’s included
Home Media Hub Manager 0.0.10 installs ffmpeg and ffprobe with the server. They’re FFmpeg 8.1.3, statically linked with x264 (stable, commit b35605ac), dav1d 1.5.4 and zlib 1.3.2. None of them is modified.
License
This build of ffmpeg and ffprobe is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or (at your option) any later version. It’s configured with --enable-gpl --enable-libx264, and without --enable-version3 or --enable-nonfree. FFmpeg is copyright the FFmpeg developers, and x264 is copyright the x264 project. dav1d (BSD 2-clause) and zlib (zlib license) keep their own licenses.
They come with no warranty, to the extent the law allows. The license text, the copyright notices and the configure line are in the ffmpeg folder of the install: LICENSE.txt, SOURCE.txt and licenses/.
Source
The complete source for the exact versions in this release is on this site, beside its installers. Home-Media-Hub-ffmpeg-source_0.0.10.tar.gz holds the unmodified upstream tarballs of FFmpeg, x264, dav1d and zlib, and the scripts that build them for Windows and macOS. Size: 14.3 MB. SHA-256: afd177935317788f3185faed102ccacbd4db462b9d13e7d604d120c27e181deb.
Your rights
ffmpeg and ffprobe are separate programs, which the server starts when it needs them. They aren’t part of Home Media Hub’s own code, and Home Media Hub’s terms and license key don’t apply to them. You may run, copy, change and redistribute them under their license, with or without a key.
Patents
The license above covers copyright. It isn’t a license to any patents on H.264 or the other formats ffmpeg handles, and complying with it doesn’t settle whether any such patent applies to you.
Earlier versions
Home Media Hub Manager 0.0.9 included an LGPL version 3 build of FFmpeg from BtbN/FFmpeg-Builds, with its license and a link to its source in the ffmpeg folder of that install.