Open Source Mac Live Streaming Software
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View 66 business solutionsBrowse free open source Live Streaming software and projects for Mac 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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screen2ipcam
Windows PC screen as an ONVIF/RTSP IP camera for NVR, DVR, VMS
Screen2ipcam turns a Windows PC screen into an ONVIF / RTSP IP camera. Your NVR, DVR or VMS discovers it like any network camera and records it next to your real cameras: POS terminals, kiosks, control rooms, monitoring stations. No capture card, no HDMI encoder, no cloud. Version 2.0.5 adds motion events over ONVIF so the recorder can record only when the screen changes and save disk space, an optional mouse pointer in the stream, sound (G.711), camera name and clock on the picture, easier activation, and built-in VPN / multiple-network support. 2.0.5 for Windows Server is a separate edition for servers, POS terminals and shared PCs: it keeps streaming on the logon screen after a reboot or log off, uses fixed ports (RTSP 554, ONVIF 18000, web panel 13030), follows Remote Desktop sessions and installs silently with a settings file. Windows 7 SP1 to 11 and Windows Server 2016 to 2025, 32/64-bit, no .NET. Free 14-day trial, one-time US$20 lifetime license per PC. https://magicweb.win -
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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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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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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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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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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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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. -
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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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RisingWave
RisingWave: the next-generation streaming database in the cloud
RisingWave is a cloud-native streaming database that uses SQL as the interface. It is designed to reduce the complexity and cost of building real-time applications. RisingWave consumes streaming data, performs continuous queries, and updates results dynamically. As a database system, RisingWave maintains results in its own storage so that users can access data efficiently. RisingWave accepts data from sources like Apache Kafka, Apache Pulsar, Amazon Kinesis, Redpanda, and materialized CDC sources. Everything you do in RisingWave is via Postgres-compatible SQL. Create materialized views for the data that need to be incrementally aggregated. Query for data in RisingWave, including persisted data and data you add or import to RisingWave. RisingWave makes it easy to manage streams and data. All you need to interact with RisingWave is Postgres-compatible SQL. No Java or Scala codes are needed. -
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BiliBili ShadowReplay
bilibili live streaming real-time slicing tool
BiliBili ShadowReplay is a free, open-source application designed for recording, clipping, and publishing highlights from live video streams. It continuously caches supported livestreams, allowing users to capture moments without manually starting recordings beforehand. The software enables creators to select time intervals from buffered footage and turn them into standalone clips. Users can edit essential video information and prepare clips for publication through an integrated workflow. It also supports reviewing previously cached broadcasts and extracting additional highlights from historical recordings. Compatible streaming platforms include Bilibili, Douyin, Douyu, TikTok, Twitch, Kuaishou, Huya, and YouTube. Built with Rust, Svelte, and Tauri, BiliBili ShadowReplay simplifies livestream content management and highlight production. -
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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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DroidCam OBS Plugin
DroidCam OBS Source
DroidCam OBS Plugin is a free, open-source extension for OBS Studio that allows smartphones to function as video camera sources. It connects compatible Android and iOS devices directly to OBS for live streaming, recording, and video production. The plugin supports high-resolution video transmission, including 1080p and up to 4K UHD on compatible devices. Users can connect their phones through Wi-Fi or USB, with optimized communication designed to minimize video latency. Hardware acceleration technologies such as DXVA, VideoToolbox, NVIDIA NVENC, and VAAPI help improve video processing performance. The plugin also supports multiple connected phones as separate OBS sources, allowing creators to build multicamera setups without purchasing dedicated cameras. -
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Stremio Core
Types, addon system, UI models, core logic
Stremio Core is the Rust engine that powers Stremio’s apps by centralizing all reusable logic behind discovery, catalogs, metadata, streams, add-ons, and user/library state. It exposes a clean set of modules—types, addon_transport, and state_types—so apps can talk to add-ons, model UI state, and react to events without duplicating code. The architecture is inspired by Elm: immutable state, message-driven updates, and explicit side-effects (“effects”) keep behavior predictable and testable. An environment abstraction lets hosts provide implementations for things like storage, networking, and timers, making the core portable to desktop, mobile, and web. The project targets WebAssembly as well, so the same Rust logic can run inside the browser via a small bridge layer. -
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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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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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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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moonlight-qt
GameStream client for PCs (Windows, Mac, Linux, and Steam Link)
Moonlight PC is an open source PC client for NVIDIA GameStream and Sunshine. Moonlight also has mobile versions for Android and iOS. You can follow development on our Discord server and help translate Moonlight into your language on Weblate. -
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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.
