12kActiveIn your browserMITRuns on your own server
Owncast is a free program you run on your own server to broadcast live video and chat to your audience. It is for streamers who want to own their content, interface and moderation instead of using a big streaming site.
Runs on your own server · GitHub · You run it yourself
15kActiveIn your browserAGPL-3.0Replaces partlyRuns on your own server
PeerTube is a video hosting platform where video creators upload and share videos across many independently run servers that connect to each other. It is for viewers and creators who want to publish video without ads or a single company controlling the content.
Runs on your own server · GitHub · Live streams are part of a video site
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Read the list of open-source alternatives at https://opensourceeverything.org/data/groups/live-streaming.json. Compare it with my project or idea below. Tell me which projects overlap, what I could reuse instead of rewriting, and what mine does that none of them do.
My project or idea:
Here is a list of open-source alternatives to Twitch, from Open Source Everything (CC BY-SA 4.0):
- Owncast (MIT, https://github.com/owncast/owncast; replaces fully): Owncast is a free program you run on your own server to broadcast live video and chat to your audience. It is for streamers who want to own their content, interface and moderation instead of using a big streaming site.
- PeerTube (AGPL-3.0, https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube; replaces partly): PeerTube is a video hosting platform where video creators upload and share videos across many independently run servers that connect to each other. It is for viewers and creators who want to publish video without ads or a single company controlling the content.
Compare it with my project or idea below. Tell me which projects overlap, what I could reuse instead of rewriting, and what mine does that none of them do.
My project or idea:
