Top 4 Streaming Software of the Week

This blog series features the top-performing projects on SourceForge under specific categories. This week, we feature the top 4 Streaming Software of the Week available on SourceForge.

With most of the world still under quarantine, people have turned to online solutions to connect with others, run their business or simply to entertain themselves. Streaming has been one such activity that a lot of people have started to engage in, making streaming software and platforms quite popular as of late.

Here are the top 4 Streaming Software available here at SourceForge, based on weekly downloads:

OBS Studio

OBS Studios, also known as Open Broadcaster Software, is a free and open source software program for live streaming and video recording. Features of the software include device/source capture, recording, encoding and broadcasting. Stream on Windows, Mac or Linux. This software is commonly used by video game streamers on the popular streaming platform Twitch.

[ Download OBS Studio ]

Jamulus

Jamulus is an internet jam session software that enables musicians to perform real-time jam sessions over the internet.

There is a Jamulus server which collects the audio data from each Jamulus client, mixes the audio data and sends the mix back to each client.

Jamulus is Open Source software (GPL, GNU General Public License) and runs under Windows (ASIO), MacOS (Core Audio) and Linux (Jack). It is based on the Qt framework and uses the OPUS audio codec.

The required minimum internet connection speed is 200 kbps for the up- and downstream. The ping time (i.e. round trip delay) from your computer to the server should not exceed 40 ms average.

[ Download Jamulus ]

butt (broadcast using this tool)

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 computer’s Mic or Line input to a 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.

[ Download butt (broadcast using this tool) ]

ONVIF Device Manager

ONVIF Device Manager is a Network Video Client (NVC) to manage Network Video Transmitters (NVT), Network Video Storage (NVS) and Network Video Analytics (NVA) devices. It implements Discovery, Device, Media, Imaging, Analytics, Events and PTZ services. Written in C# and uses ffmpeg for media decoding.

[ Download ONVIF Device Manager ]

See and know more of the many other Open Source Streaming Software available on SourceForge here.