RaspberryCast vs NymphCast

RaspberryCast

:tv: Transform your Raspberry Pi into a streaming device. Videos can be sent from mobile devices or computers (Chrome extension). (by vincelwt)

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NymphCast

Audio and video casting system with support for custom applications. (by MayaPosch)

Media Streaming Multimedia Streaming Streaming nymphcast-server Audio audio-player video-player Audio Streaming Video Streaming Angelscript Casting

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RaspberryCast		NymphCast
	Project
2	Mentions	17
839	Stars	2,371
-	Growth	-
10.0	Activity	7.7
over 3 years ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
JavaScript	Language	C
MIT License	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

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RaspberryCast

Posts with mentions or reviews of RaspberryCast. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-29.

Casting YouTube to RP?
5 projects | /r/raspberry_pi | 29 Jun 2022

I'm trying to cast any video from YouTube to a RP4 using the Chromecast (DIAL?) protocol. How do you do this? So far I've tried PiYouTube, RaspberryCast, PiCAST, PYCASTER, and NymphCast. All unsuccessfully.
Cast video + music to Raspberry Pi?
5 projects | /r/raspberry_pi | 28 Jun 2022

NymphCast

Posts with mentions or reviews of NymphCast. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-16.

How do I use Server as Speakers?
5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 16 Apr 2023

Are you looking for something like this?
Miracast
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Dec 2022

A different altern@tive gor media streaming, dimilar to chromecast, is Nymphcast: https://github.com/MayaPosch/NymphCast
Both clients and servers are available, it also works at a higher level.
audio stream
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 6 Jul 2022

I've been watching NymphCast for a while now, but I've never actually run it before.
Casting YouTube to RP?
5 projects | /r/raspberry_pi | 29 Jun 2022

I'm trying to cast any video from YouTube to a RP4 using the Chromecast (DIAL?) protocol. How do you do this? So far I've tried PiYouTube, RaspberryCast, PiCAST, PYCASTER, and NymphCast. All unsuccessfully.
Cast video + music to Raspberry Pi?
5 projects | /r/raspberry_pi | 28 Jun 2022
Use PC as a google cast receiver
2 projects | /r/software | 21 Jun 2022

No. You need more apps to support https://github.com/MayaPosch/NymphCast/ you can DIY a home network with something like this. There used to be picast and some other android apps that allowed you to do it (by running android on a system that ran the videos) etc
Suggestions on Home entertainment
5 projects | /r/homemediaserver | 20 Apr 2022

Don't send me to pre-alpha software like Nymphcast
NymphCast: an open source Chromecast
1 project | /r/LinuxLugcast | 15 Mar 2022
NymphCast (an open-source ChromeCast alternative) Release Candidate 1 tagged
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 15 Mar 2022

1 project | /r/linux | 15 Mar 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing RaspberryCast and NymphCast you can also consider the following projects:

PiYouTube - DIAL YouTube player ( acts as a smart TV on your network ). Intended for Raspberry Pi, but can be run on any device.

Jellyfin - The Free Software Media System

PiCAST - PiCAST turns your $35 Raspberry Pi in to a Chromecast like Device.

Gerbera - UPnP Media Server for 2024: Stream your digital media through your home network and consume it on all kinds of UPnP supporting devices 📱💻📺

PYCASTER - PYCASTER lets you cast and stream videos froms various websites. Chromecast-like.

homehost - self-hosted, Netflix-like app made for streaming

miraclecast - Connect external monitors to your system via Wifi-Display specification also known as Miracast

QMPlay2 - QMPlay2 is a video and audio player which can play most formats and codecs.

wayvnc - A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors

rpi-webrtc-streamer - This repo's objective is providing something like Web Cam server on the most popular Raspberry PI hardware. By integrating [WebRTC](https://webrtc.org/native-code/) and Raspberry PI, we can stream the Raspberry camera feed to browser or native client which talks WebRTC.

IP-ESP32-CAM - "IP Camera" based on ESP32-CAM

puffer - Puffer is a free live TV streaming website and a research study at Stanford using machine learning to improve video streaming