Self-hosted projects tagged “Video Streaming”

Immich is an open-source platform for organizing, backing up, and streaming photos and videos with web and mobile clients, searchable metadata, face clustering, and S3-compatible storage.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Google Photos+14

Jellyfin is a free, self-hosted media server to organize, manage, and stream movies, TV, music, and photos to web, mobile, and TV clients.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Plex+19

SRS (Simple Realtime Server) is a high-efficiency media server supporting RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, HTTP-FLV, SRT, MPEG-DASH, and GB28181 for real-time streaming.

MITActively maintained

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Wowza Streaming Cloud+8

Invidious is a lightweight, privacy-focused alternative front-end for YouTube with subscriptions, playlists, and an API—without Google accounts, ads, or tracking.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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YouTube

PeerTube is a decentralized, ActivityPub-federated video hosting platform with live streaming, P2P WebRTC delivery, and customizable community-run instances.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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YouTube+8

Self-hosted web app for organizing, tagging, and streaming a private adult video and image library with metadata scraping, galleries, and markers.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Plex+11

Owncast is a self-hosted live streaming server that supports RTMP ingest, HLS playback, and built-in web chat, with optional Fediverse (ActivityPub) integration.

MITActively maintained

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YouTube+12

Open-source screen sharing server that runs self-hosted; WebRTC-based with TURN server; Docker or single-binary deployment; browser-based.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Zoom+11

Tube Archivist is a self-hosted YouTube media server to download, index, search, and watch your archived videos with subscriptions and watch status tracking.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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YouTube+6

ZoneMinder is a free, open-source video surveillance system for Linux that captures, analyzes, records, and monitors cameras via a web interface.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Blue Iris+10

Open-source video integration and NVR platform that ingests camera streams and rebroadcasts them to HomeKit, Google Home, Alexa, Home Assistant and web clients via plugins.

Actively maintained

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Blue Iris+10

Self-hosted live streaming server to ingest RTMP/SRT/RTSP, transcode with FFmpeg, and restream to platforms like YouTube Live and Twitch with an easy web UI.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Restream+8

Modern open source video and media CMS for hosting, organizing, and streaming video, audio, images, and PDFs with RBAC and a REST API.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Vimeo+9

Headless Steam Docker image for remote game streaming with noVNC web desktop, Proton support, and NVIDIA/AMD/Intel GPU acceleration, compatible with Steam Link and Moonlight.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Shadow PC+14

Ampache is a web-based audio and video streaming app and file manager for accessing and streaming your organized music and video collection from almost any device.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Ampache (Cloud)+11

Open-source TV streaming server and DVR for Linux supporting DVB/ATSC/IPTV inputs and HTSP/HTTP streaming.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Channels DVR+3

OvenMediaEngine (OME) is a sub-second latency live streaming server that ingests multiple protocols, transcodes to ABR, and delivers streams via WebRTC and Low-Latency HLS.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Wowza Streaming Cloud+15

An open-source WebRTC SFU that routes media for scalable multiparty video conferencing; supports Colibri XMPP/REST control, DTLS/SRTP, and Prometheus metrics.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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LiveKit Cloud+17

ErsatzTV is an open-source media server that creates scheduled, EPG-driven IPTV-style channels from local libraries or Plex/Jellyfin/Emby, with hardware transcoding and M3U/XMLTV output.

ZlibActively maintained

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Channels DVR+1

Open source audio and video casting system that turns Linux-capable hardware into a network receiver for streaming local files, URLs, and media servers.

BSD-3-ClauseSlowing down

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Sonos+5

Self-hosted IPTV channel builder that turns your Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby libraries into scheduled live TV streams with an HDHomeRun-style tuner, M3U, and web guide.

ZlibActively maintained

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Channels DVR+2

Kyoo is a self-hosted video-focused media server for movies, TV series, and anime, with automatic library scanning, transcoding, and modern web/mobile clients.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Plex+5

Open-source Moonlight streaming server that runs in Docker to share a single host among multiple remote clients.

MITActively maintained

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Shadow PC+9

uStreamer is a lightweight, fast MJPEG-over-HTTP streamer for V4L2 capture devices, optimized for high-FPS HDMI/VGA capture and PiKVM-style KVM over IP use.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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AXIS Camera Station

Self-hosted web app that indexes videos with AI (transcription, vision analysis, embeddings) to enable natural-language search and scene export.

Actively maintained

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Vimeo+5

Web app for synchronized group watching: per-channel playlists, real-time chat, moderation, and multi-source media playback.

Slowing down

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Watch2Gether

Open-source AI camera monitoring that routes camera streams through a relay/node proxy and broadcasts frames to federated AI workers for detections, summaries, and alerts.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Blue Iris+10

Self-host game clips and videos, organize them into a library, and share via unique watch links with optional public feed and uploads.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Loom+19

Open-source self-hosted music server for collectors with flexible metadata parsing, multiple releases/versions support, music-video handling and Docker deployment.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Plex+9

Gossa is a lightweight Go web server for browsing, uploading, and streaming files from a directory with a simple, fast UI and optional PWA support.

MITSlowing down

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FileBrowser+10