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Movies, TV shows, music, audiobooks, ebooks, photos, and home videos in one family archive.
GPMA Private Media Server · Gladshiem Private Media Archive
Your media.
Your media.
Your network.
GPMA—short for Gladshiem Private Media Archive—is a free, LAN-first home media server designed for dependable playback across your local network, with no advertising, no cloud account, and no connection back to us.
Works offline after preparation
Roku-first client experience
Subtitle-focused playback
LAN-firstRoutine browsing and playback stay inside your home.
No adsNo tracking SDKs, webhooks, or calls to Ordinex Labs.
All mediaVideo, audio, reading, and family archives together.
Roku readyRemote-first television playback is the preferred client.
One family archive
More than a movie server.
GPMA is being built as a single, durable home for the media a family actually keeps—from a favorite television series to an audiobook collection, old family photos, ebooks, music, and home video.
Movies
TV shows
Music
Audiobooks
Books
Family archives
Playback without shortcuts
Direct play first. Fully prepared playback when needed.
GPMA does not stream a file while it is still being transcoded. If a compatible copy is needed, GPMA completes and validates it before playback begins so audio, video, seeking, and subtitles share a stable timeline.
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Direct play whenever possible
Modern compatible media travels over your LAN without conversion.
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Preparation may take several minutes
The first play of incompatible media can wait while a complete cached copy is created.
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Pre-cache during scans
Prepare likely-incompatible files ahead of time for immediate later playback. Older television and classic-film collections are more likely to need conversion.
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Plan for cache storage
We recommend keeping roughly 10–20% additional storage available when pre-caching. Actual use depends on the codecs and formats in your archive.
Designed for the television
Roku is our preferred playback client.
The GPMA Roku client is built for directional remotes, large screens, profile switching, full-library navigation, voice-assisted text entry where available, and locally cached artwork. GPMA prepares media on the server so the television can focus on reliable playback.
Subtitle accessibility
Better choices for hearing-impaired viewers
GPMA prioritizes compatible hearing-impaired, SDH, and closed-caption subtitle releases where providers identify them, keeps subtitle selection explicit, and is designed to preserve synchronization when viewers pause, resume, or seek.
Long-term resilience
Take your prepared archive anywhere
Once libraries, metadata, artwork, and compatible playback copies are scanned and cached, GPMA requires no Internet connection for normal use. With power, a server, a supported client, and a LAN, the archive remains usable.
Capabilities
Built for the collection you already own.
GPMA keeps original media untouched while building its catalogue, artwork, metadata, subtitle files, and compatible playback copies in managed storage.
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Subtitle-first design
Local sidecars, provider search, preferred release matching, language priority, hearing-impaired ordering, and planned advanced correction.
LAN
Private local operation
No inbound cloud control, ads, tracking webhooks, or mandatory online account. Clients use your server over the LAN.
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Large-library navigation
Bounded paging, combined libraries, filters, sorting, search, collections, and playlists for archives with tens of thousands of files.
AI
Optional media assistant
Connect a chosen third-party or local LLM for permission-aware discovery and confirmed playlist or collection proposals.
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Recoverable administration
Scan reports, unmatched-media repair, duplicate review, managed caches, profile controls, and Trash before permanent deletion.
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Listening and reading
Author, series, album, and artist organization with progress-aware audiobook, music, and prepared ebook experiences.
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Optional Live TV
Compatible live broadcast sources can be configured without making them a requirement for the private archive.
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Offline continuity
Cached descriptions, artwork, people, reviews, subtitles, and prepared files keep routine use independent of provider availability.
When GPMA uses the Internet
Only for features you intentionally initiate.
GPMA makes outbound Internet connections only for media metadata and artwork searches, subtitle searches/downloads, compatible Live TV broadcasts, or a third-party AI service you configure. None is required for prepared-library playback.
There are no connections back to Ordinex Labs, no advertising network, no usage analytics, no cloud webhook, and no hidden remote access path in GPMA. Provider requests are made directly by your server when the relevant feature is enabled and used.