List of Top Free Open Source & Self Hosted Application for Media Streaming - Video Streaming

Video streaming tools and software.

Bluecherry – Closed-circuit television (CCTV) software application which supports IP and Analog cameras. GPL-2.0 PHP
cmyflix ⚠ – Self-hosted, super lightweight Netflix alternative. AGPL-3.0 C
CyTube – CyTube is a web application providing media synchronization, chat, and more for an arbitrary number of channels. MIT Nodejs
Frigate – Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI. MIT Docker/Python/Nodejs
Invidious ⚠ – Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube. AGPL-3.0 Crystal
Kerberos.io – Kerberos.io is a video surveillance solution, which works with any camera and on every Linux based machine (Raspberry Pi, Docker, Kubernetes cluster). MIT Docker
MediaCMS – MediaCMS is a modern, fully featured open source video and media CMS, written in Python/Django/React, featuring a REST API. AGPL-3.0 Python/Docker
Oblecto ⚠ – Media server for Movies and TV Shows with a responsive Vue.js frontend. It has robust transcoding support as well as federation capabilities to share your library with your friends. AGPL-3.0 Nodejs
Oddworks – Oddworks is an open source video distribution platform built to destroy the barriers to streaming television with SDKs for Roku, Apple iOS/tvOS, Google Android, and Amazon FireTV. MIT Nodejs
Olaris – Olaris is an open-source, community driven, media manager and transcoding server. GPL-3.0 Go
Open Streaming Platform – Self-Hosted alternative to Twitch and Youtube Live for live and on-demand video streaming. MIT Python
OvenMediaEngine – OvenMediaEngine is a selfhostable Open-Source Streaming Server with Sub-Second Latency. GPL-3.0 C++
Owncast – Owncast is an open source, self-hosted, decentralized, single user live video streaming and chat server for running your own live streams similar in style to the large mainstream options. MIT Go
PeerTube – Decentralized video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent) directly in the web browser. AGPL-3.0 Nodejs
Radium – Synced stream and video playback with VOD capabilities utilizing HLS. Developed for movie nights but has many use cases. MIT Nodejs/Docker
Rapidbay – Self-hosted torrent videostreaming service/torrent client that allows searching and playing videos from torrents in the browser or from a Chromecast/AppleTV/Smart TV. MIT Python/Docker
Restreamer – Restreamer allows you to do h.264 real-time video streaming on your website without a streaming provider. Apache-2.0 Nodejs/Docker
ShinobiCE – Open Source CCTV software written in Node with both IP and local camera support. AGPL-3.0/GPL-3.0 Nodejs
SRS – A simple, high efficiency and real-time video server, supports RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, HTTP-FLV and SRT. MIT Docker/C++
Streama – Self hosted streaming media server. MIT Java
SyncTube – Lightweight and very simple to setup CyTube alternative to watch videos with friends and chat. MIT Nodejs/Haxe
Tube – Youtube-like (without censorship and features you don’t need!) Video Sharing App written in Go which also supports automatic transcoding to MP4 H.265 AAC, multiple collections and RSS feed. MIT Go
VideoLAN Client (VLC) – Cross-platform multimedia player client and server supporting most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. GPL-2.0 C
Zoneminder – Closed-circuit television (CCTV) software application which supports IP, USB and Analog cameras. GPL-2.0 PHP