Open Source C++ Live Streaming Software for Linux

Upgrade your setup with several modern sources, filters, transitions and encoders using StreamFX! With several performant and flexible features, you will discover new ways to build your scenes, better ways to encode your content, and take your stream to the next level. Create cool new scenes with 3D effects, add glow or shadow, or blur out content - endless choices, and all of it at your fingertips.

NOTE: This site is not maintained anymore. If you want to get the latest news and releases please visit https://danielnoethen.de/butt. butt (broadcast using this tool) is an easy to use, multi OS streaming tool. It supports ShoutCast and IceCast and runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows. The main purpose of butt is to stream live audio data from your computers Mic or Line input to an Shoutcast or Icecast server. Recording is also possible. It is NOT intended to be a server by itself or automatically stream a set of audio files.

VLC is an open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework, which plays most multimedia files, DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. VLC media player is simple, fast, and powerful. It plays everything, files, discs, webcams, devices, and streams. VLC plays most codecs (MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3, etc.) so no codec packs are needed. It runs on all platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, etc. And VLC is hassle free with no spyware, no ads, and no user tracking.

DistroAV is an open-source integration plugin for OBS Studio that provides Network Device Interface (NDI) support so users can send and receive live audio and video over IP networks directly within OBS, formerly known as the OBS-NDI project before being renamed. By implementing NDI input sources, dedicated output transports, and special filter modes, it allows creativity-oriented workflows such as capturing remote cameras, sharing scenes between machines, or distributing live feeds without capture cards or physical cabling. The plugin works with the NDI runtime and supports modern versions of OBS Studio across Windows, macOS, and Linux, enabling streamers and production setups to leverage low-latency, high-quality media over local networks for multi-device collaboration or extended setups. DistroAV’s development community focuses on maintaining compatibility with the latest OBS releases and NDI v6 tooling while addressing bugs and extending feature requests.

Jamulus is for playing, rehearsing, or just jamming with your friends, your band or just anyone you find online. Use your Windows, macOS or Linux machine to connect to Jamulus servers worldwide, for free over a normal broadband connection. Or host your own private server. Jamulus is designed for high quality, low-latency sound, making it easy to play together remotely and in time.

SmartCam - Smart Phone Web Camera - Turns a camera phone (S60, WinMo6.x, Android, Samsung Bada) with bluetooth or WiFi into a handy webcam ready to use with your PC

A distributed, peer-to-peer, server-less communication & messaging solution for JAVA (JMS), C++ and .NET applications, integrates with JBoss, WebLogic & WebSphere. Offers guaranteed delivery, security and transactions. Supports TCP, SSL & HTTP protocols.

This is 'Great Little Radio Player'. It is a robust internet radio station streamer. It connects to web sites offering radio streaming and lets you play radio stations directly from that locations. We develop for Windows, Linux and MacOSX.

NOTE: Source code is now hosted on github at https://github.com/plutinosoft/Platinum. A cross-platform C++ library for discovering, controlling or implementing UPnP devices. Contains sample code for a UPnP AV Media Server, Media Renderer & Control Point. (Platinum is copyrighted by Plutinosoft, LLC. http://www.plutinosoft.com)

VDR plugin: xine-lib based software output device for VDR.

IHU is a VoIP application for Linux (using Qt and Speex), with low latency, crypted stream, minimal use of bandwith, and without intermediary servers. It is the easiest way to talk real-time with your friends (like phone) on the internet or LAN.

Movino is a solution for streaming and broadcasting live video from smartphones

OsnofianLinux is a set of small distributions intended to fit on 1.44Mb floppy disk, in the boot sector of a CDROM, hard drive or even on a USB stick. Check the project homepage for more details and projects info.

An AVC/SVC (Scalable Video Coding) stream player. It can read video files or streams coded with the H.264/AVC standard or its scalable extension H.264/SVC. Implemented using the open sources tools: JSVM, LIVE555 and Qt.

Go to "Files" to download releases of EZComm and Jirrit. EZComm (EZ Comm) is still maintened, code hosted on https://github.com/bon-ami/ezcomm You can use it as either a client or a server for TCP/UDP text messages Jirrit is still maintened, code hosted on https://github.com/bon-ami/jirrit You can use it to operate with commands on JIRA, bugzilla, Jenkins and Gerrit. EZOutput is hosted on https://gitee.com/bon-ami/ezoutput

Kinoglaz is a pure C++ RTSP Streaming Server. Features seek / scale support, TCP tunneling, playlists, runtime stream composition. Actually supports MPEG4 video (like xvid), MPEG2 / MP3 / AAC audio.

NSV Lib is a cross platform C/C++ Library that let's you write and read everything in the NSV(Nullsoft Streaming Video) format. You can read existing files/streams, as well as write your own. And it contains very easy, yet powerful functions

PSP RSS Feed Generator is a commandline based PSP RSS Channel file creator intended for beginners' use. It scans a local directory and creates a PSP RSS Channel compatible XML file ready to be hosted on a web site. ***Supports directories with spaces***

An application for serving videos to a Tivo from a PC using the same Home Media service used to transfer shows between Tivos. Currently requires that the Tivo be hacked, and only supports shows previously extracted from a Tivo.

UDP Stream Relaying Control project is based on taking a stream across any unicast , multicast or even DVB-T network and relay it to your desired destination with controlling the UDP Stream relay.

Fstorage is a free, open-source, lightweight and fast File Storage Software. Storage is task of server and file hosting. Clients/APIs are designed for use by C/C++/Python/PHP programmers can send files and receive files for particular FileKey.

qsopcast is a QT based GUI front-end of the popular P2P TV sopcast.

Open Streaming Server is an digital media delivery. Main characteristics are: - Streaming of mp4, 3gp, WMF, QT files - Dynamic Bandwidth adaptation - Load balancing - Content distribution Technology: C++, Java and CORBA.

Miscellaneous Market Data dev stuff.

An overlay Networking Protocol, aims in creating a big secured virtual network, optimizing both speed and cost.