Opensource Streaming Server application?

Question

I am looking for opensource Streaming server.

I have played around VLS/VLC before.

Have any of you used Darwin from Apple?

Are there any other options available?

Answer 1

There's VLS from videolan.org and ffserver from the MPlayer guys, I haven't tried either of them though.

Answer 2

I've used Darwin Streaming Server (DSS 5.x) quite a lot for video streaming.

Pros:

• full featured streaming server (semi-professional)
• easy configuration (config file)
• works well on Linux

Cons:

• works not so well on Windows
• using the loop feature sometime result in audio/video sync loss

Answer 3

Flumotion, a streaming server written on top of Python, Twisted and GStreamer.

Disclaimer: I work on this, as does our company. On the plus side though, that means it's maintained.

Answer 4

The liveMedia streamer + streaming media library available from www.live555.com. It's an open-source cross-platform standard compliant library written in c++ with a very active mailing list handling RTP/RTCP/RTSP, and many payload formats.

AFAIK VLC uses the liveMedia library internally.

Answer 5

For flash based clients, look into Red5. It supports many Codec's and is built ontop of Spring, which opens up many doors to you.

Answer 6

I'm a fan of icecast. It's an open source version of Shoutcast. It's only audio though.