Media Streaming

Top 23 Media Streaming Open-Source Projects

  • Jellyfin

    The Free Software Media System

    Project mention: Kodi 21.0 "Omega" | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-07
  • koel

    🐦 A personal music streaming server that works.

    Project mention: (StarLAN) Personal Home Lab | /r/homelab | 2023-07-22

    Koel Music Server (https://github.com/koel/koel) Opensource music server, nice GUI and allows high fidelity streaming of all your music files

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  • VideoLAN Client (VLC)

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

    Project mention: Hz in Music and changing it | /r/WeAreTheMusicMakers | 2023-12-08

    No. You can use a music player such as VLC Media Player to play music back tuned up or down slightly if you wish. But if people are affected by some frequencies and not others, that would be new.

  • Streama

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

  • owncast

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

    Project mention: Open source projects..? | /r/golang | 2023-12-08

    The Owncast project is planning the early stages of some re-architecting in our Go codebase to prepare for future features. I’d love to chat with you about the project! https://github.com/owncast/owncast

  • Mopidy

    Mopidy is an extensible music server written in Python

    Project mention: Spotify will reduce total headcount by 17% across the company | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-04

    Lots and lots of FOSS music players use libspotify or can otherwise connect to your Spotify account.

    Here's just one. It's BYO frontend. https://mopidy.com/

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • Snapcast

    Synchronous multiroom audio player

    Project mention: Why is Spotify not implementing this? | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-31

    https://github.com/badaix/snapcast!

    Works perfectly on pis scattered around the house.

  • neko

    A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC.

    Project mention: A self hosted virtual browser that runs in Docker | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-30
  • Zoneminder

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

    Project mention: Zoneminder VS docker-xeoma - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/zoneminder | 2024-03-21
  • musikcube

    a cross-platform, terminal-based music player, audio engine, metadata indexer, and server in c++

    Project mention: Nord themes for musikcube | /r/nordtheme | 2023-11-05

    Nord theme for Musickube

  • Emby

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

    Project mention: Program for sorting DOWNLOADED movies/games? | /r/software | 2023-12-08

    I used to use Plex until I found Emby. I find Emby easier to use and it does the same thing. Just putting this here as a fourth option for OP. :)

  • 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.

    Project mention: Selfhost Straming platform | /r/Proxmox | 2023-04-29

    You can use restreamer https://github.com/datarhei/restreamer

  • Ampache

    A web based audio/video streaming application and file manager allowing you to access your music & videos from anywhere, using almost any internet enabled device.

    Project mention: Release 5.6.4 · ampache/ampache - A few little fixes | /r/ampache | 2023-11-29
  • Ansible-NAS

    Build a full-featured home server or NAS replacement with an Ubuntu box and this playbook.

    Project mention: davestephens/ansible-nas: Build a full-featured home server or NAS replacement with an Ubuntu box and this playbook. | /r/devopsish | 2023-05-27
  • AzuraCast

    A self-hosted web radio management suite, including turnkey installer tools for the full radio software stack and a modern, easy-to-use web app to manage your stations.

    Project mention: AzuraCast: A Simple, Self-Hosted Web Radio Management Suite | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-30
  • cloudtunes

    Web-based music player for the cloud :cloud: :notes: Play music from YouTube, Dropbox, etc.

  • NymphCast

    Audio and video casting system with support for custom applications.

  • mediacms

    MediaCMS is a modern, fully featured open source video and media CMS, written in Python/Django and React, featuring a REST API.

    Project mention: Seeking Alternatives to Frame.io for Video Delivery | /r/editors | 2023-12-08

    Last, host something like https://github.com/mediacms-io/mediacms to serve the optimized files. As long as your clients are not halfway across the world, they should be able to watch the videos with relative ease.

  • mStream

    The easiest music streaming server available

    Project mention: Not on streaming | /r/aphextwin | 2023-07-12

    Right now I’m just loading music to the free VLC app on my iPhone. Though I’ve long thought about setting up my own private cloud streaming server via the open source https://mstream.io but haven’t got around to it yet.

  • Groove Basin

    Music player server with a web-based user interface.

  • CyTube

    Node.JS Server and JavaScript/HTML Client for synchronizing online media (by calzoneman)

    Project mention: [Request] Please Join Me This Thursday (10/26) at 6pm Central For the No-HDTGM-Thursday Movie. This Week It's Scream (1996)! | /r/Movie_Club | 2023-10-26

    userscript (you'll need this to view the movies)

  • gonic

    music streaming server / free-software subsonic server API implementation

    Project mention: Music manager with genius/smart list generator | /r/selfhosted | 2023-12-09
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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 2024-04-16.

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Index

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Project Stars
1 Jellyfin 29,417
2 koel 15,409
3 VideoLAN Client (VLC) 12,932
4 Navidrome Music Server 9,842
5 Streama 9,567
6 owncast 8,877
7 Mopidy 7,912
8 Snapcast 5,705
9 neko 5,281
10 Zoneminder 4,759
11 musikcube 3,984
12 Emby 3,882
13 Restreamer 3,462
14 Ampache 3,432
15 Ansible-NAS 2,928
16 AzuraCast 2,829
17 cloudtunes 2,489
18 NymphCast 2,367
19 mediacms 2,288
20 mStream 2,134
21 Groove Basin 1,860
22 CyTube 1,423
23 gonic 1,414
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