Open Source C 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 The project is no longer maintained actively by the original author.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

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.

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.

The nginx-rtmp-module is an open-source extension for Nginx that enables RTMP-based live streaming functionality. It adds support for ingesting RTMP video streams and re-streaming through HTTP/HLS/DASH, with various configuration controls and multi-worker streaming capabilities. Supports multi-worker streaming via automatic stream pushing (rtmp_auto_push). Can output HLS streams for playback on mobile and web clients. RTMP endpoint for live video stream ingestion.

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 complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles, and related metadata. Provides an implementation of a wider range of codecs. Implements streaming protocols, container formats, and basic I/O access. Includes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility functions. Provides means to alter decoded audio and video through a directed graph of connected filters. Provides an abstraction to access capture and playback devices. Implements audio mixing and resampling routines. Implements color conversion and scaling routines. FFmpeg is a command-line toolbox to manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content. ffplay is a minimalistic multimedia player. FFmpeg codebase is mainly LGPL-licensed with optional components licensed under GPL.

Conceived as an internet radio Shoutcast/Icecast client and DJ console IDJC has two main media players, a background track player, effects buttons, crossfader, webm, aac, ogg, and mp3 streaming, stream automation timers, aux input, voice and VoIP integration. Media file formats include: mp3, ogg, flac, wma, wav, m4a, m3u, xspf, pls, and cue sheet support, IRC track and station announcements, uses jack audio connection kit to provide a flexible audio chain. This list of features is by no means complete. More info at the project homepage.

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),

djmount is a UPnP AV client. It mounts as a Linux filesystem (using FUSE) the media content of compatible UPnP AV devices : the Audio and Video content on the network is automatically discovered, and can be browsed as a standard directory tree.

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.

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

m3w is an audio streamer for the www. m3w streams audio data to servers like icecast. shoutcast, or darwin. It takes data from the sound card, encodes (using lame) and sends it. m3w aims for high reliability, top quality, and ease of use.

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

A real-time recorder and compressor of audio and video input for the Windows platforms, using MFC, DirectX, FFMPEG and MPEG4IP. The program is capable of generating avi and mp4 files and streaming MPEG-4 audio and video via Apple Darwin Streaming Server.

DVBStreamer is an console based application to stream DVB/ATSC service(s) over UDP or to a file. It is more that just an app to stream AV though and feature a simple plugin architecture to allow more features to be added.

This project aims to replace the multimedia server application for the Gateway, GoVideo, and NetGear DVD players & set-top devices. The new server software aims to be more organized and support a wider variety of formats than Digital 5's original.

Kageki Software includes the best in modern technology in our streaming media server software. This allows users to achieve greater performance than existing multimedia streaming servers.

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.

WebCamMini - program for working with remote desktop and web-camera, broadcasting content in the network.

AutoHome(Automatic Home Management System) to schedule Television,DVD,and any Infrared based devices(Roboraptor and RoboSapien)to work automatically.Can Send(transmit)/Recieve Remote Control Signals, launch EXE files in Computers/PC .It uses USBUIRT.

No port forwarding, DMZ, and others are required, Trate allows other applications - almost all applications(VNC,WinSCP,BitTorrent,Filezilla,ssh,Web/Ftp etc) - to auto-create dynamic connections between two peers behind two separate NATs and firewalls.

Amdtpplay receives an audio data stream from an IEEE 1394 bus according to the Audio and Music Data Transmission Protocol (IEC 61883-6). This audio stream is then played on the local sound card.

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

Utility to download asf streams to a file, and then fix up headers and null packets. Based largely on asfrecorder