owncast VS MistServer

Compare owncast vs MistServer 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)

MistServer

The official mistserver source repository - www.mistserver.com (by DDVTECH)
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owncast MistServer
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8,885 341
1.8% 1.8%
9.9 7.7
3 days ago 10 days ago
TypeScript C
MIT License The Unlicense
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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.

MistServer

Posts with mentions or reviews of MistServer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing owncast and MistServer 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.

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

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]

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

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

Streama - Self hosted streaming media server. https://docs.streama-project.com/

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

Emby - Emby Server is a personal media server with apps on just about every device.

Invidious - Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube