owncast VS CyTube

Compare owncast vs CyTube and see what are their differences.

owncast

Take control over your live stream video by running it yourself. Streaming + chat out of the box. (by owncast)

CyTube

Node.JS Server and JavaScript/HTML Client for synchronizing online media (by calzoneman)
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owncast CyTube
94 29
8,820 1,418
1.9% -
9.9 3.2
3 days ago 6 months ago
TypeScript JavaScript
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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owncast

Posts with mentions or reviews of owncast. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-14.

CyTube

Posts with mentions or reviews of CyTube. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-28.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing owncast and CyTube you can also consider the following projects:

Restreamer - The Restreamer is a complete streaming server solution for self-hosting. It has a visually appealing user interface and no ongoing license costs. Upload your live stream to YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, Vimeo, or other streaming solutions like Wowza. Receive video data from OBS and publish it with the RTMP and SRT server.

Ant-Media-Server - Ant Media Server is a live streaming engine software that provides adaptive, ultra low latency streaming by using WebRTC technology with ~0.5 seconds latency. Ant Media Server is auto-scalable and it can run on-premise or on-cloud.

rtsp-simple-server - Also known as rtsp-simple-server. ready-to-use RTSP / RTMP / LL-HLS / WebRTC server and proxy that allows to read, publish and proxy video and audio streams. [Moved to: https://github.com/aler9/mediamtx]

PeerTube - ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser

Screenshare-with-audio-on-Discord-with-Linux - A repo trying to gather all info regarding proper screensharing on Discord with Desktop Audio for linux users

Invidious - Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube

VideoLAN Client (VLC) - VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please follow https://wiki.videolan.org/Sending_Patches_VLC/

Kodi Home Theater Software - Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.

MovieNight - Single instance video streaming server with integrated chat.

unifi-protect-remux - Tool to help remux .ubv files from Ubiquiti's Unifi Protect system so they can be turned into standard .mp4 files

Zoneminder - ZoneMinder is a free, open source Closed-circuit television software application developed for Linux which supports IP, USB and Analog cameras.