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List Of Streaming Media Systems
This is a list of streaming media systems. A more detailed comparison of streaming media systems is also available. Servers * Ampache – GPL/LGPL Audio streaming **atmosph3re – responsive web-based streaming audio server for personal music collection *Darwin Streaming Server – Apple Public Source License * dyne:bolic – Linux live CD ready for radio streaming * emby – a media server/client that runs on Linux/Mac/Windows/freeBSD/docker & NAS devices with clients on Android TV/fireTV/Apple TV/Roku/Windows/PlayStation/Xbox/iOS & HTML5 Capable devices * FFserver included in FFmpeg (discontinued) * Firefly Media Server – GPL * Flash Media Server * FreeJ – video streamer for Icecast – GPL * Helix Universal Server – delivers MPEG-DASH, RTSP, HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), RTMP; developed by RealNetworks, discontinued since October 2014 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streaming Media
Streaming media refers to multimedia delivered through a Computer network, network for playback using a Media player (other), media player. Media is transferred in a ''stream'' of Network packet, packets from a Server (computing), server to a client-server model, client and is rendered in real-time; this contrasts with file downloading, a process in which the end-user obtains an entire media file before consuming the content. Streaming is more commonly used for video on demand, streaming television, and music streaming services over the Internet. While streaming is most commonly associated with multimedia from a remote server over the Internet, it also includes offline multimedia between devices on a local area network. For example, using DLNA and a home server, or in a personal area network between two devices using Bluetooth (which uses radio waves rather than Internet Protocol, IP). Online streaming was initially popularized by RealNetworks and Microsoft in the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Icecast
Icecast is a streaming media project released as free software maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. It also refers specifically to the Server (computing), server program which is part of the project. Icecast was created in December 1998/January 1999 by Jack Moffitt (computer scientist), Jack Moffitt and Barath Raghavan to provide an open-source software, open-source audio streaming server that anyone could modify, use, and tinker with. Version 2, a Rewrite (programming), ground-up rewrite aimed at multi-format support (initially targeting Vorbis, Ogg Vorbis) and scalability, was started in 2001 and released in January 2004. History Icecast was originally developed by Moffitt in 1998 for Southern Methodist University, SMU's radio station. At the time, the station was constantly losing its FCC license and was at the time only able to reach listeners in the same building. Given that all of the dorms throughout campus had Ethernet connectivity, using streaming audio to broadcast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plex (software)
Plex Inc. is an American software company that runs its namesake Over-the-top media service, over-the-top Free ad-supported streaming television, ad-supported streaming television service and develops media server software that lets users stream their personal media collections to their devices. The company is based in Campbell, California. Plex had 16 million streaming subscribers as of 2023. History Plex began as a freeware hobby project in December 2007 when developer Elan Feingold created a media center application for his Mac (computer), Mac computer by porting the media player Kodi (software), XBMC (since renamed Kodi) to Mac OS X. Around the same time, Cayce Ullman and Scott Olechowskisoftware executives who had recently sold their previous company to Ciscowere also looking to port XBMC to Mac OS X, and noticed Feingold's progress in the XBMC online forums. They contacted him and offered support and funding, and they formed a three-person team in January 2008. The team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PlayOn
PlayOn is a streaming media brand and software suite that enables users to view and record videos from numerous online content providers. The suite consists of two main products: PlayOn Cloud and PlayOn Desktop. PlayOn Cloud is an online service for recording digital video streams, accessible via native iOS or Android mobile device applications. PlayOn Desktop is Windows-based software that acts as a streaming dashboard and hub on the PC. The available streaming websites are organized as channels in both products. Users browse through or search the video content found in those channels in order to record the videos for later viewing. PlayOn Desktop allows watching the videos real-time on the PC, or casting the videos to a TV via a streaming device or gaming console. The recording feature of PlayOn acts as a DVR for streaming videos, creating an MPEG-4 file which can be transferred to supported media devices. Users are then able to watch these videos without necessitating acces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Open Broadcaster Software
OBS Studio (also Open Broadcaster Software or OBS, for short) is a free and open-source, cross-platform screencasting and live streaming app. It is available for Windows, macOS, Linux distributions, and BSD. The OBS Project raises funds on Open Collective and Patreon. Overview OBS Studio is a free and open-source app for screencasting and live streaming. Written in C/ C++ and built with Qt, OBS Studio provides real-time capture, scene composition, recording, encoding, and broadcasting via Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP), HLS, SRT, RIST or WebRTC. It can stream videos to any RTMP-supporting destination, including YouTube, Twitch, Instagram and Facebook. For video encoding, OBS Studio can use the x264, AOM-AV1, SVT-AV1 transcoder, Intel Quick Sync Video, Nvidia NVENC, AMD Video Coding Engine and VAAPI to encode video streams into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC or H.265/HEVC formats. It can encode multiple tracks of audio in AAC and Opus format. More experienced users ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gstreamer
GStreamer is a Pipeline (computing), pipeline-based multimedia framework that links together a wide variety of media processing systems to complete complex workflows. For instance, GStreamer can be used to build a system that reads files in one format, processes them, and exports them in another. The formats and processes can be changed in a plug and play fashion. GStreamer supports a wide variety of media-handling components, including simple Digital audio, audio playback, audio and video playback, Sound recording and reproduction, recording, Streaming media, streaming and editing. The pipeline design serves as a base to create many types of multimedia applications such as Video editing, video editors, Transcoding, transcoders, streaming media broadcasters and Media player (application software), media players. It is designed to work on a variety of operating systems, e.g. the Berkeley Software Distribution, BSDs, OpenSolaris, Linux, Android (operating system), Android, macOS, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OpenBroadcaster
OpenBroadcaster is a web-based, open-source system to run community radio and television broadcast transmitters with a simple web interface. History The initial concept was to develop a web based radio system to run emergency messages and public service announcements for export to Africa by using a windup radio designed by Trevor Baylis. . It was part of a Yukon College innovation project originating from Tagish Yukon Territory Canada. On Labour Day weekend, 1997 CFET-FM 106.7FM was launched, for the benefit of communities in Tagish, Johnson's Crossing and Marsh Lake, YT. It was a one-man operation, but local volunteers could record material for sending to the station via the internet for broadcast. The system was used for the community's local emergency population warning for instantaneous relay of Yukon Forestry Service alerts for Wildfire situations. 2004 CFET-FM Radio began using OpenBroadcaster for User Generated Radio followed by CJUC-FM forming a Yukon network of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nginx
(pronounced "engine x" , stylized as NGINX or nginx) is a web server that can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache. The software was created by Russian developer Igor Sysoev and publicly released in 2004. Nginx is free and open-source software, released under the terms of the 2-clause BSD license. A large fraction of web servers use Nginx, often as a load balancer. A company of the same name was founded in 2011 to provide support and ''NGINX Plus'' paid software. In March 2019, the company was acquired by F5 for $670 million. Popularity , W3Tech's web server count of all web sites ranked Nginx first with 33.8%. Apache was second at 26.4% and Cloudflare Server third at 23.4%. , Netcraft estimated that Nginx served 20.11% of the million busiest websites with Cloudflare a little ahead at 22.99%. Apache at 17.83% and Microsoft Internet Information Services at 4.16% rounded out the top four servers for the busiest websites. Some o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nimble Streamer
Nimble Streamer is a software Streaming media, media server developed by Softvelum. The server is used for streaming of live and video on demand, on-demand video and audio to desktop computers, mobile devices, internet-connected TV sets, IPTV set-top boxes and other network-connected devices. Its first stable version 1.0.0-1 was released on October, 21st, 2013, with a number of preliminary versions done before that. The release cycle is intensive and introduces a new version every week or less. Nimble Streamer was the finalist in Streaming Media European Readers' Choice Awards for 2016 as the Best Streaming Innovation and for 2021 as Hardware/software Server. Usage Nimble Streamer is delivered as an application for Linux and Windows. Its basic scenarios include streaming from live sources, streaming from VOD files and cache-aware HTTP re-streaming. For live streaming it takes RTMP, RTSP, MPEG-TS, SRT, UDT and Icecast as input and produces MPEG-DASH, HTTP Live Streaming, HLS, Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyrion Music Server
Lyrion Music Server (LMS) is a streaming audio server supported by the LMS community and formerly supported by Logitech, developed in particular to support their Squeezebox range of digital audio receivers. The software is designed for streaming music over a network, allowing users to play their music collections from virtually anywhere there is an Internet connection. It supports PCM audio formats including MP3, FLAC, WAV, Ogg, Opus, and AAC, as well as transcoding. It also supports DSD audio formats such as DSF, DFF and DSD WavPack. It can stream to both software and hardware receivers, including the various Squeezebox models, as well as any media player capable of playing MP3 streams. Plugins from Logitech and third-party sources are also supported, allowing additional functionality to be added. Lyrion Music Server supports grouping clients in order to synchronize playback among all clients within a group. Lyrion Music Server is free software, released under the terms of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MPlayer
MPlayer is a free and open-source media player software application. It is available for Linux, OS X and Microsoft Windows. Versions for OS/2, Syllable Desktop, Syllable, AmigaOS, MorphOS and AROS Research Operating System are also available. A port for DOS using DJGPP is also available. Versions for the Wii Homebrew Channel and Amazon Kindle have also been developed. History Development of MPlayer began in 2000. The original author, Hungary, Hungarian Árpád Gereöffy, started the project because he was unable to find any satisfactory video players for Linux after XAnim stopped development in 1999. The first version was titled ''mpg12play v0.1'' and was hacked together in half an hour using ''libmpeg3'' from Cinelerra, Cinelerra-HV. After ''mpg12play v0.95pre5'', the code was merged with an Audio Video Interleave, AVI player based on ''avifile''s ''Win32 Dynamic-link library, DLL loader'' to form MPlayer v0.3 in November 2000. Gereöffy was soon joined by many other programme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VLC Media Player
VLC media player (previously the VideoLAN Client) is a free and open-source software, free and open-source, software portability, portable, cross-platform media player software and streaming media Server (computing), server developed by the VideoLAN project. VLC is available for desktop operating systems and mobile platforms, such as Android (operating system), Android, iOS and iPadOS. VLC is also available on digital distribution platforms such as Apple Inc., Apple's App Store (iOS), App Store, Google Play, and Microsoft Store (digital), Microsoft Store. VLC supports many data compression, audio- and video-compression methods and file formats, including DVD-Video, Video CD, and streaming-communications protocol, protocols. It is able to stream media over computer networks and can transcode multimedia files. The default distribution of VLC includes many free decoding and encoding libraries, avoiding the need for finding/calibrating proprietary plugins. The libavcodec library fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
