Open Source Live Streaming Software

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.

IGMPproxy is a simple dynamic Multicast Routing Daemon using only IGMP signalling. It's intended for simple forwarding of Multicast traffic between networks. The project is no longer maintained actively by the original author. For a more up to date version (latest patches applied), please check out https://github.com/pali/igmpproxy

Audio toolkit for streaming, aiming at complex Internet radio systems. Our stream generator is highly extensible and flexible. Script based, it can be a fully automatic daemon streamer, but is also used for live shows with an user-friendly GUI.

aTunes is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform player and manager, with support for online radios, podcasts and CD ripping.

Live API Web Console is a React starter that demonstrates how to use Gemini’s Live API over WebSockets to build real-time, multimodal experiences. The app includes modules for streaming audio playback, recording user media from the microphone, webcam, or even screen capture, and it surfaces a unified event log so you can debug the session as it flows. Configuration lives in a simple .env file and the project boots with standard web tooling, letting you experiment quickly with models, system prompts, and tool declarations. It ships with demo branches that show grounded search, function calling, and visualization—one example has the model calling a function that renders Vega/Altair graphs directly in the UI. Under the hood there’s an event-emitting WebSocket client, an audio in/out processing layer, and a minimal scaffolded view so you can focus on your app logic rather than wiring.

Tvheadend is a TV streaming server and digital video recorder for Linux. It supports DVB-C(2), DVB-T(2), DVB-S(2), ATSC, SAT>IP, HDHomeRun and IPTV inputs, as well as HTTP, HTSP (own protocol) and SAT>IP outputs.

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.

Subsonic is a web-based media streamer, providing ubiquitous access to your music and video collection. More than 20 apps are available for Android, iPhone, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Roku, Chumby, Sonos etc. Supports virtually all media formats, converting files on the fly. Also includes a Podcast receiver and jukebox feature allowing you to control what's playing on your computer from your mobile phone.

Zip-Ada is a library for .zip archives. Full sources are in Ada and are unconditionally portable. Input and output can be any stream (file, buffer,...) for archive creation as well as data extraction. Task safe and endian-neutral. More information on: http://unzip-ada.sf.net Alire crate: https://alire.ada.dev/crates/zipada Mirror: https://github.com/zertovitch/zip-ada/

Textream is an open-source, free macOS teleprompter application designed for streamers, podcasters, presenters, and interviewers who want a smooth, distraction-free way to stay on script. It runs natively on macOS and leverages on-device speech recognition to highlight each word in real time as you speak, keeping your focus where it belongs — on delivery rather than memorization. The interface supports multiple modes of use, such as classic constant-scroll auto-scrolling, voice-activated scrolling that pauses when you’re silent, and direct word tracking that syncs the displayed script to your spoken pace. Textream also includes flexible display modes, from a sleek notch-anchored overlay on laptops to an invisible-to-the-audience floating window or fullscreen experience.

small-footprint UNIX/Linux daemon to relay multicast UDP traffic to client's TCP (HTTP) connection. This app targets home users and is designed for small-scale usage. For enterprise purposes please consider Gigapxy (gigapxy.com),

The Network Audio System is a network transparent, client/server audio transport system. It can be described as the audio equivalent of an X server. This project is currently in maintenance mode. Patches are accepted, releases will be sporadic.

ARAS is a free broadcast automation system that manages the schedule flexibly and is able to play a large number of media formats. In addition, it allows connections to media streams over the network. It is suitable for both radio and TV stations.

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)

========================= WEBCAMSTUDIO IS NO MORE MAINTAINED ========================= We are looking for someone to take over. If interested please contact: soylent.tv@gmail.com WebcamStudio is a multifeatured virtual webcam software that can be used with Skype or a flash website like UStream, to create a professional looking broadcast, including banners, animations, transit animations and icons, etc... This tool is not meant as a video editor but as a live video mixer giving you the possibilities to change the look of the broadcast on the fly. For more info about the WebcamStudio project, please visit our Wiki Home page: https://sourceforge.net/p/webcamstudio/wiki/Home/ IMPORTANT: ======= The former homepages of the project: http://code.google.com/p/webcamstudio http://ws4gl.org should be considered only as a reference to old project news, forums, info etc. Have in mind that some of these old links may not work anymore.

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.

phpShout is a PHP Extension that wraps around the libshout library available at http://www.icecast.org/. LibShout is used in conjunction with an Icecast server to create a streaming Internet radio station from your own music files.

jlibrtp aims to create a library that makes it easy to support RTP (RFC 3550,3551) in Java applications. SRTP (RFC 3771) has been delayed in favor of RFC 4585.

Streaming radio client for Java 2ME

A high speed file transfer protocol using UDP and TCP for high speed long distance networks, much faster than new TCP congestion control algorithms. Based on Indiana University 2002 Tsunami source code. Contains real-time VSIB DAQ extensions. Further info on http://tsunami-udp.sourceforge.net

zmviewer is a zoneminder client written in Qt

Variations is a digital music library software system that provides online access to streaming audio and scanned score images with a flexible access control framework to ensure respect for intellectual property.

Live MP3/OGG/AAC Flash Player for Icecast and Shoutcast. It has some interesting and necessary features like reconnect on network errors to make sure users never get silence and cache management to avoid memory memory consumption. Works with Flash 10.1 and newer.

SHOUTcast Management Interface (BETA) - Create and modify shoutcast servers with the ease of a web based interface. This is a free open source stream control panel for PHP5 enabled web servers with MySQL 4.1 or newer.

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