owncast VS Restreamer

Compare owncast vs Restreamer 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)

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. (by datarhei)
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owncast Restreamer
94 40
8,820 3,432
1.9% 3.0%
9.9 6.7
3 days ago about 1 month ago
TypeScript HTML
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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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.

Restreamer

Posts with mentions or reviews of Restreamer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-29.

What are some alternatives?

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

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]

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.

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

MistServer - The official mistserver source repository - www.mistserver.com

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

Shinobi - :peace_symbol: :palestinian_territories: Shinobi CE - The Free Open Source CCTV platform written in Node.JS (Camera Recorder - Security Surveillance Software - Restreamer

CyTube - Node.JS Server and JavaScript/HTML Client for synchronizing online media

MovieNight - Single instance video streaming server with integrated chat.

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