- Open Source Linux Streaming Software
- OBS Studio
- butt (broadcast using this tool)
- igmpproxy
- savonet
- PeerTube
- EasyDarwin
- Download OBS Studio
- OBS Studio
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- Features
- Create Professional Productions
- Collaborative Creativity
- OBS Studio
- Premier Tier
- Diamond Tier
- Gold Tier
- Features
- Create Professional Productions
- Collaborative Creativity
Open Source Linux Streaming Software
Browse free open source Streaming software and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Streaming software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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OBS Studio
OBS Studios, also known as Open Broadcaster Software, is a free and open source software program for live streaming and video recording. Features of the software include device/source capture, recording, encoding and broadcasting. Stream on Windows, Mac or Linux. This software is commonly used by video game streamers on the popular streaming platform Twitch.
butt (broadcast using this tool)
The official website of this project is https://danielnoethen.de/butt butt (broadcast using this tool) is an easy to use, multi OS streaming tool. It supports ShoutCast and IceCast and runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows. The main purpose of butt is to stream live audio data from your computers Mic or Line input to an Shoutcast or Icecast server. Recording is also possible. It is NOT intended to be a server by itself or automatically stream a set of audio files.
igmpproxy
IGMPproxy is a simple dynamic Multicast Routing Daemon using only IGMP signalling. It’s intended for simple forwarding of Multicast traffic between networks. The project is no longer maintained actively by the original author. For a more up to date version (latest patches applied), please check out https://github.com/pali/igmpproxy
savonet
Audio toolkit for streaming, aiming at complex Internet radio systems. Our stream generator is highly extensible and flexible. Script based, it can be a fully automatic daemon streamer, but is also used for live shows with an user-friendly GUI.
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PeerTube
PeerTube, developed by Framasoft, is the free and decentralized alternative to video platforms, providing you over 400,000 videos published by 60,000 users and viewed over 15 million times. Our aim is not to replace them, but rather to simultaneously offer something else, with different values. PeerTube is not meant to become a huge platform that would centralize videos from all around the world. Rather, it is a network of inter-connected small videos hosters. Anyone with a modicum of technical skills can host a PeerTube server, aka an instance. Each instance hosts its users and their videos. In this way, every instance is created, moderated and maintained independently by various administrators. You can still watch from your account videos hosted by other instances though if the administrator of your instance had previously connected it with other instances. And there’s more! PeerTube uses ActivityPub, a federating protocol that allows you to interact with other software.
EasyDarwin
Open source, high-performance, industrial RTSP streaming server. A lot of optimization on streaming. KeyFrame cache, RESTful, and web management. Also, EasyDarwin supports distributed load balancing, a simple streaming media cloud platform architecture. Helps streaming media developers realize the latest mobile Internet streaming live and on-demand faster and easier. Simple, efficient, and stable open-source audio encoding library, which supports transcoding of various audio data into AAC format. EasyDarwin is able to transcode G.711A/PCMA, G.711U/PCMU, and other audio formats to Linear PCM. Provided to the public in the form of SDK, completely free to use. Provides a series of streaming media audio and video development practical tools to help developers quickly solve problems in the process of operation, maintenance and debugging.
Download OBS Studio
The Windows release of OBS Studio supports Windows 10 and 11.
Version: 29.1.3 Released: June 19th Download Installer Download via Bittorrent Download Zip View on GitHub Previous Releases
The macOS release of OBS Studio supports macOS 11.0 and newer.
Version: 29.1.3 Released: June 19th Download Installer (x86_64/Intel) Download Installer (arm64/Apple Silicon) Download via Bittorrent View on GitHubPrevious Releases
OBS Studio is officially distributed as a Flatpak on Flathub and a PPA for Ubuntu 20.04 and newer. For other installation methods, including unofficial packages, click here.
Flatpak Instructions
If your distro is not already set up to install Flatpaks, you can follow the instructions here.
Ubuntu Instructions (20.04+)
Run these commands to install OBS Studio on Ubuntu via the official PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:obsproject/obs-studio
sudo apt update
sudo apt install ffmpeg obs-studio
Version: 29.1.3 Released: June 19th Build Instructions View on GitHub Previous Releases
OBS Studio
Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.
Download and start streaming quickly and easily on Windows, Mac or Linux.
The OBS Project is made possible thanks to generous contributions from our sponsors and backers. Learn more about how you can become a sponsor.
Premier Tier
Diamond Tier
Features
High performance real time video/audio capturing and mixing. Create scenes made up of multiple sources including window captures, images, text, browser windows, webcams, capture cards and more.
Set up an unlimited number of scenes you can switch between seamlessly via custom transitions.
Intuitive audio mixer with per-source filters such as noise gate, noise suppression, and gain. Take full control with VST plugin support.
Powerful and easy to use configuration options. Add new Sources, duplicate existing ones, and adjust their properties effortlessly.
Streamlined Settings panel gives you access to a wide array of configuration options to tweak every aspect of your broadcast or recording.
Modular ‘Dock’ UI allows you to rearrange the layout exactly as you like. You can even pop out each individual Dock to its own window.
OBS supports all your favorite streaming platforms and more.
Create Professional Productions
Choose from a number of different and customizable transitions for when you switch between your scenes or add your own stinger video files.
Set hotkeys for nearly every sort of action, such as switching between scenes, starting/stopping streams or recordings, muting audio sources, push to talk, and more.
Studio Mode lets you preview your scenes and sources before pushing them live. Adjust your scenes and sources or create new ones and ensure they’re perfect before your viewers ever see them.
Get a high level view of your production using the Multiview. Monitor 8 different scenes and easily cue or transition to any of them with merely a single or double click.
Collaborative Creativity
OBS Studio is equipped with a powerful API, enabling plugins and scripts to provide further customization and functionality specific to your needs.
Utilize native plugins for high performance integrations or scripts written with Lua or Python that interface with existing sources.
Work with developers in the streaming community to get the features you need with endless possibilities.
Browse or submit your own in the Resources section
OBS Studio
Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.
Download and start streaming quickly and easily on Windows, Mac or Linux.
The OBS Project is made possible thanks to generous contributions from our sponsors and backers. Learn more about how you can become a sponsor.
Premier Tier
Diamond Tier
Gold Tier
Features
High performance real time video/audio capturing and mixing. Create scenes made up of multiple sources including window captures, images, text, browser windows, webcams, capture cards and more.
Set up an unlimited number of scenes you can switch between seamlessly via custom transitions.
Intuitive audio mixer with per-source filters such as noise gate, noise suppression, and gain. Take full control with VST plugin support.
Powerful and easy to use configuration options. Add new Sources, duplicate existing ones, and adjust their properties effortlessly.
Streamlined Settings panel gives you access to a wide array of configuration options to tweak every aspect of your broadcast or recording.
Modular ‘Dock’ UI allows you to rearrange the layout exactly as you like. You can even pop out each individual Dock to it’s own window.
OBS supports all your favorite streaming platforms and more.
Create Professional Productions
Choose from a number of different and customizable transitions for when you switch between your scenes or add your own stinger video files.
Set hotkeys for nearly every sort of action, such as switching between scenes, starting/stopping streams or recordings, muting audio sources, push to talk, and more.
Studio Mode lets you preview your scenes and sources before pushing them live. Adjust your scenes and sources or create new ones and ensure they’re perfect before your viewers ever see them.
Get a high level view of your production using the Multiview. Monitor 8 different scenes and easily cue or transition to any of them with merely a single or double click.
Collaborative Creativity
«OBS Studio is equipped with a powerful API, enabling plugins and scripts to provide further customization and functionality specific to your needs.»
«Utilize native plugins for high performance integrations or scripts written with Lua or Python that interface with existing sources.»
«Work with developers in the streaming community to get the features you need with endless possibilities.»
Browse or submit your own in the Resources section