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Top 23 C++ Streaming Projects
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srs
SRS is a simple, high-performance, AI-driven real-time media server supporting RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, HTTP-FLV, HTTP-TS, SRT, MPEG-DASH, and GB28181, with codec support for H.264, H.265, AV1, VP9, AAC, Opus, and G.711.
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redpanda
Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM!
Project mention: Top Open-Source Data Engineering Tools- Unravelling the Best in 2026 | dev.to | 2025-12-10Redpanda
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Apollo
Sunshine fork - The easiest way to stream with the native resolution of your client device (by ClassicOldSong)
Project mention: How to enhance your network with transparent Wake-on-LAN capabilities | dev.to | 2026-05-17Game streaming — Streaming from your own gaming rig via Moonlight and Sunshine or Apollo? Desomnia ensures the system only runs while someone is actually playing. It also integrates with Duo to start streaming instances when a client connects and stop them when the last session ends.
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OvenMediaEngine
OvenMediaEngine (OME) is a Sub-Second Latency Live Streaming Server with Large-Scale and High-Definition. #WebRTC #LLHLS
Project mention: Create an ultra quality HEVC video pipeline with hardware cost of less than $500 | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-06 -
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Project mention: Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-07-19
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Project mention: Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-07-19
The sum up is pretty good, I didn't know half of the history
About Apollo, someone started a fork of Sunshine to be the equivalent of Apollo (with virtual displays) for linux, it's called Polaris https://github.com/papi-ux/polaris (nb, it's not the apache polaris).
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BeatDrop-Music-Visualizer
A standalone music visualization with custom MilkDrop2 engine, only for Windows
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MStream
Anomaly Detection on Time-Evolving Streams in Real-time. Detecting intrusions (DoS and DDoS attacks), frauds, fake rating anomalies. (by Stream-AD)
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RewardsTheater
OBS plugin that lets your viewers redeem videos or sounds on stream via Twitch Channel Points
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).
C++ Streaming discussion
C++ Streaming related posts
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Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight
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Bazel and Glibc Versions
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Show HN: OpenAI/reflect – Physical AI Assistant that illuminates your life
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Daggy: Declarative data aggregation and streaming. App and C/C++ lib
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Wolf: Stream virtual desktops and games running in Docker with Moonlight
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Show HN: Games on Whales – Stream multiple desktops and games from a single host
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Show HN: Roc VAD – macOS virtual device for audio streaming
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Streaming projects in C++? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | srs | 29,129 |
| 2 | redpanda | 12,442 |
| 3 | Apollo | 10,538 |
| 4 | OvenMediaEngine | 3,207 |
| 5 | Bento4 | 2,485 |
| 6 | OpenHD | 2,438 |
| 7 | wolf | 2,102 |
| 8 | icey | 1,365 |
| 9 | roc-toolkit | 1,244 |
| 10 | RaftLib | 997 |
| 11 | ArrowDL | 843 |
| 12 | io | 739 |
| 13 | master_me | 733 |
| 14 | vlc-bittorrent | 495 |
| 15 | polaris | 286 |
| 16 | holohub | 224 |
| 17 | daggy | 165 |
| 18 | Widecar | 148 |
| 19 | BeatDrop-Music-Visualizer | 138 |
| 20 | MStream | 119 |
| 21 | AnoGraph | 87 |
| 22 | roc-vad | 66 |
| 23 | RewardsTheater | 61 |
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