Top 7 C Streaming Projects

FFmpeg

136 27,874 10.0 C

Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git

Project mention: Yet Another DTS Question | reddit.com/r/LGOLED | 2022-01-22

This looks promising as well. Thank so much. I confess though I am command line illiterate though I will give https://ffmpeg.org/ a good look over.
gpac

4 1,652 9.8 C

Modular Multimedia framework for packaging, streaming and playing your favorite content.

Project mention: Determining new bitrate when lossy converting from 256K M4A to Opus | reddit.com/r/audiophile | 2022-01-10

Just an example: https://github.com/gpac/gpac/wiki/MP4Box
SonarLint

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nginx-vod-module

1 1,574 6.2 C

NGINX-based MP4 Repackager

Project mention: Any software that creates MPEG DASH on the fly for a file? | reddit.com/r/VIDEOENGINEERING | 2022-01-12

There's a nginx module to do what you're looking for: https://github.com/kaltura/nginx-vod-module
ustreamer

8 831 7.8 C

µStreamer - Lightweight and fast MJPG-HTTP streamer

Project mention: A pure C Mjpeg-over-HTTP server | news.ycombinator.com | 2022-01-18

I've done work before where we stream USB cameras via mjpg using https://github.com/pikvm/ustreamer
Granted this project looks like a lot more streamlined.
Icecast

13 349 4.1 C

Icecast streaming media server (Mirror) - Please report bugs at https://gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/icecast-server/issues

Project mention: Any Audio streaming service? | reddit.com/r/selfhosted | 2021-12-18

Icecast
txproto

1 55 9.2 C

Scriptable multimedia sandbox. Captures, streams and records from a variety of sources.

Project mention: Some nifty stuff ffmpeg can do | reddit.com/r/linux | 2021-02-13

txproto is interesting as well if you need more control over the ffmpeg pipeline than wf-recorder allows: https://github.com/cyanreg/txproto
streaming-commons

1 30 4.3 C

Common lower-level functions needed by various streaming data libraries

Project mention: List of upcoming breaking changes | reddit.com/r/haskell | 2021-11-13
Scout APM

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2022-01-22.

C Streaming related posts

Determining new bitrate when lossy converting from 256K M4A to Opus
1 project | reddit.com/r/audiophile | 10 Jan 2022
Hosting/forwarding video capture to a web/app or interface possiblities?
3 projects | reddit.com/r/selfhosted | 29 Sep 2021
[OC] I learned programming so I could graph Ina's heart rate
2 projects | reddit.com/r/Hololive | 3 Aug 2021
How can I convert mp3 to a m4a without quality loss?
1 project | reddit.com/r/techsupport | 5 Jun 2021
A Quick Dive Into MP4
4 projects | dev.to | 30 Apr 2021
Twitch once again has modified something to get past ublock origin
9 projects | reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin | 31 Mar 2021
AAC and M4A
1 project | reddit.com/r/audiophile | 31 Mar 2021

Index

What are some of the best open-source Streaming projects in C? This list will help you:

	Project	Stars
1	FFmpeg	27,874
2	gpac	1,652
3	nginx-vod-module	1,574
4	ustreamer	831
5	Icecast	349
6	txproto	55
7	streaming-commons	30

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