Open Source Live Streaming Tools and Services

Comprehensive software providing screen recording and live streaming on Mac, Windows, and Linux with powerful encoding support and unlimited scenes.

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform developed as an alternative to other platforms that centralize our data and attention, such as YouTube, Dailymotion or Vimeo. But one organization hosting PeerTube alone may not have enough money to pay for bandwidth...

Launch your own channel | Watch and share videos.

Owncast is a self-hosted live video and web chat server for use with existing popular broadcasting software. Point your live stream at a server you personally control and regain ownership over your content.

Streamlabs Desktop is all you need for streaming! Our developers have combined a streamer's essentials like video preview, dashboard, and chat windows in one app with better video quality and lower CPU usage.

Xtra for Twitch is a Twitch client focused on providing the best viewing and chatting experience on mobile devices:

VDO.Ninja is a powerful tool that lets you bring remote video feeds into OBS or other studio software via WebRTC.

Twire is an open source, ad free Twitch browser and stream player for Android. You can select multiple themes and also login with your twitch account. You can also follow and unfollow streamers through the app.

A mobile Twitch client for iOS and Android with 7TV, BetterTTV (BTTV), and FrankerFaceZ (FFZ) support. Built with Flutter.

Streamlink CLI pipes/directs video streams (RTMP, HLS) from various services (plugin list available) into a standalone media player of choice. (VLC, MPV).

Open Streaming Platform (OSP) is an open-source, RTMP streamer software front-end for Arut's Nginx-RTMP Module. OSP was designed as a self-hosted alternative to services such as Twitch.tv, Ustream.tv, Mixer, and Youtube Live.

icecast is free server software for streaming multimedia. It streams audio to listeners, and is compatible with Nullsoft's Shoutcast.

Icecast, the project, is a collection of programs and libraries for streaming audio over the Internet. This includes:

• icecast, a program.

Zap.stream is a live-streaming platform that offers real-time broadcasting with built-in monetization, allowing creators to earn directly from their audience. It emphasizes privacy, decentralization, and direct control over content, giving users more freedom and security...

Red5 open-source is a free live streaming solution developed by Infrared5, also known as the developer of Red5 Pro and Red5 Cloud. Red5 open-source solution is written in Java and supports

A free iOS app for IRL streaming. Mainly targeting Twitch, but can stream to YouTube, Kick, Facebook and OBS Studio as well (and probably more).

Streaming media toolkit designed for efficiency, wide support (HLS, DASH, FLV, RTMP, SRT, WebRTC, more), crash-resistant architecture and ultra-low latency. Numerous integration options making it ideal for building custom solutions.

Datarhei/Restreamer offers smart free video streaming in real time. Stream H.264 video of IP cameras live to your website. Upload your live video on YouTube, Ustream, Twitch, Livestream.com or any other streaming solutions e.g. Wowza-Streaming-Engine.

Stream your device camera to your PeerTube channel.

hypercast is a tool for broadcasting live peer-to-peer video streams to dat:// enabled web browsers such as Beaker Browser.

A multi platform Twitch.tv browser for Streamlink.

A selfhosted live streaming website.

AltaCast is a continuation of the Oddcast/Edcast streaming software that can stream to either Icecast or SHOUTcast servers.

Chatsen is a cross-platform application that allows you to chat on Twitch with support for 3rd-party services such as 7TV, BetterTTV and FrankerFaceZ.

Livestreamer is a command-line utility that pipes video streams from various services into a video player, such as VLC. The main purpose of Livestreamer is to allow the user to avoid buggy and CPU heavy flash plugins but still be able to enjoy various streamed content.

Enjoy Twitch on your GNU/Linux desktop.