Open Source Linux Live Streaming Software
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View 36 business solutionsBrowse free open source Live Streaming software and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Live Streaming software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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OBS Studio
Open source software for live streaming and recording
OBS Studio, 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. -
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StreamFX
StreamFX is a plugin for OBS® Studio which adds many new effects
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. -
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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 The project is no longer maintained actively by the original author.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
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VLC media player
The best free media player for video and DVDs
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. -
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DistroAV
DistroAV (formerly OBS-NDI): NDI integration for OBS Studio
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. -
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butt (broadcast using this tool)
Icecast and Shoutcast broadcasting client
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. -
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StreamEx
Enhancing Java Stream API
This library defines four classes, StreamEx, IntStreamEx, LongStreamEx, DoubleStreamEx which are fully compatible with Java 8 stream classes and provide many additional useful methods. Also EntryStream class is provided which represents the stream of map entries and provides additional functionality for this case. Finally, there are some new useful collectors defined in MoreCollectors class as well as primitive collectors concept. -
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Megacubo
Intuitive, multi-language, cross-platform IPTV player
Megacubo is an intuitive, multi-language, cross-platform IPTV player designed to make watching live TV simple and efficient. You can add unlimited IPTV playlists (M3U format), organize your channels, and easily access your history and bookmarks. The app supports multiple streaming formats and includes EPG (TV guide) for a better viewing experience. Megacubo also lets you record live broadcasts directly to your device, so you can watch later whenever you want. With the built-in Miniplayer mode, you can keep watching your favorite content in a small floating window while working or browsing on your PC. Megacubo does not provide content — it simply plays streams available on the internet. -
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Stremio
Stremio - Freedom to Stream
Stremio is the browser application that delivers Stremio’s “Freedom to Stream” experience entirely on the web. It consumes stremio-core (compiled to WebAssembly) and renders the product surfaces you recognize: Board for personalized updates, Discover for browsing catalogs, and Meta Details for titles, seasons, and streams. The app is built with JavaScript/TypeScript and a conventional web toolchain, offering simple commands for local development, testing, and production builds. It manages add-on installation and configuration in-app, letting users combine official and community sources without leaving the UI. Playback hooks into the stream types exposed by add-ons and the core’s selection logic, with UI affordances for choosing sources, subtitles, and quality. Because the heavy business logic lives in the core, the web app stays focused on UX, routing, accessibility, localization, and smooth state transitions between pages. -
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Jamulus - Internet Jam Session Software
Play music online. With friends. For free.
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. -
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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.
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Textream
Textream is a free macOS teleprompter app for streamers, interviewers
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. -
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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.
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Streamlink
Streamlink is a CLI utility which pipes video streams
Streamlink is a command-line utility that pipes video streams from various services into a video player, such as VLC. The main purpose of Streamlink is to avoid resource-heavy and unoptimized websites, while still allowing the user to enjoy various streamed content. There is also an API available for developers who want access to the stream data. Streamlink is built upon a plugin system that allows support for new services to be easily added. Most of the big streaming services are supported. Streamlink is made up of two parts, a cli and a library API. See their respective sections for more information on how to use them. The default behavior of Streamlink is to playback streams in the VLC player. Please note that by using this application you're bypassing ads run by sites such as Twitch.tv. Please consider donating or paying for subscription services when they are available for the content you consume and enjoy. -
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muffon
Advanced multi-source music streaming + discovery client for desktop.
muffon is a cross-platform music streaming client for desktops, which helps you listen to, discover, and organize music in an advanced way. -
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FFmpeg
Tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles...
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. -
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nginx-rtmp-module
NGINX-based Media Streaming Server
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. -
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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.
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ZLMediaKit
WebRTC/RTSP/RTMP/HTTP/HLS/HTTP-FLV/WebSocket
ZLMediaKit is a high-performance C++11 media server and streaming SDK for real-time audio and video applications. It supports a wide range of protocols, including RTSP, RTMP, HLS, HTTP-FLV, WebSocket-FLV, GB28181, HTTP-TS, HTTP-fMP4, MP4, and WebRTC. The project is designed for protocol conversion, live streaming, low-latency playback, recording, forwarding, and large-scale client access. Its asynchronous, multithreaded network model makes it suitable for commercial streaming deployments with many concurrent connections. ZLMediaKit can be deployed directly as a complete media server or embedded through its standard C API as an SDK for other languages and systems. It also provides REST APIs and webhooks so businesses can integrate authentication, event handling, and custom streaming logic. -
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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
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Owncast
Take control over your live stream video by running it yourself
Owncast is a free and open source live video and web chat server for use with existing popular broadcasting software. Have complete control and ownership over your stream, allowing you to create the content and community you want. The frictionless built-in chat allows your viewers to be a part of the action. Include custom emotes and build chat bots to encourage engagement from your viewers. Point your existing broadcasting software at your Owncast server and begin streaming. Owncast can work with different storage providers to optionally scale your videos to many viewers using only low-powered hardware. Owncast is for people who are live streamers, or who wants to host live streams for others. It’s a “one to many” broadcast much like Twitch, Facebook Live, YouTube Live, etc. Owncast is not for video conferencing or any use case where multiple people are wanting to see video of each other. -
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Tvheadend
TV streaming server and digital video recorder for Linux
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. -
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koel
A personal music streaming server that simply works
koel is a simple, open source, web-based personal audio streaming service created with some of the more modern technologies that appeals to web developers. It embraces such technologies as CSS grid and drag-and-drop API to deliver a music streaming application that simply works. koel is written in Vue on the client side, and Laravel on the server side. It requires a server that can run Laravel 5.8 and a modern browser that can support newer web technologies. -
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PeerTube
Video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser
PeerTube, developed by Framasoft, is the free and decentralized alternative to video platforms, providing you over 400,000 videos published by 60,000 users and viewed over 15 million times. Our aim is not to replace them, but rather to simultaneously offer something else, with different values. PeerTube is not meant to become a huge platform that would centralize videos from all around the world. Rather, it is a network of inter-connected small videos hosters. Anyone with a modicum of technical skills can host a PeerTube server, aka an instance. Each instance hosts its users and their videos. In this way, every instance is created, moderated and maintained independently by various administrators. You can still watch from your account videos hosted by other instances though if the administrator of your instance had previously connected it with other instances. And there's more! PeerTube uses ActivityPub, a federating protocol that allows you to interact with other software. -
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Twitch Drops Miner
An app that allows you to AFK mine timed Twitch drops
TwitchDropsMiner is a desktop application that automates earning timed Twitch Drops by simulating “watch” activity without actually streaming video, letting users collect rewards while saving bandwidth and attention. It works by periodically fetching stream metadata to advance Drops progress, while maintaining a websocket connection to monitor which channels are online, offline, or changing status. The app is designed to reduce manual babysitting by switching channels automatically when a stream goes offline or when a higher-priority opportunity becomes available. It supports prioritisation logic, including game priority and exclusion lists, so users can focus on specific campaigns and avoid unwanted categories. The tool also discovers new drop campaigns based on linked accounts and validates streams using tags and campaign checks to avoid wasting time watching streams that cannot earn rewards.
