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Awesome Broadcasting

A curated list of amazingly awesome open source resources related to broadcast technologies

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Animation, Graphics & Video Playout

Aurena

A network distributed media playback system.

Blender

3D creation suite supporting 3D modelling, animation, motion tracking, video editing, and more (overview here).

Bridge

Next generation graphics control software, with extension support.

caspar-obs-client

Python GUI application for seamless integration between CasparCG media servers and OBS Studio.

CasparCG

A professional graphics and video play-out software, proven in 24/7 broadcasts since 2006.

ffplayout

Rust and FFmpeg based playout from folder or playlists.

Macadam

Blackmagic Node.js bindings that support HTML/CSS (via Electron) and SVG (via Sevruga) graphics.

Nebula

Media asset management and broadcast automation system.

NodeCG

Broadcast graphics rendered in a browser using Node.js.

OGraf

Open specification for HTML based Graphics, used in live television and post production workflows.

Open Playout Automation

A CasparCG-based MCR play-out system.

ossia

A free and open-source intermedia sequencer.

Sofie - TV Automation

MOS-driven automation system for news casts, with many libraries for e.g. device control.

SPX - Graphics Controller

Graphics control client for live video productions and live streams.

StreamShapers - Ferryman

Web App to generate HTML-Graphics from Lottie.JSON files / from Adobe AfterEffects.

Studio TV Player

Simple TV studio player with SDI, NDI and MPEG TS outputs.

Clocks & Studio Screens

OATIS

Server Based Studio Clock and Tally system, supporting messaging, physical GPI's and OSC triggering.

OnAirScreen

Cross-platform "OnAir Lamp" solution targeted for use in professional broadcast environments.

PiClock

Customisable network based displays of clocks, on-air, mic live and other studio indicators.

PiClock Advanced

Improved version of PiRSClock-Full with changed layout, added timers and network capabilities.

PiRSClock-Full

Radio Studio Clock with studio indicators for mics, telephones etc.

Codecs

FLAC

Free Lossless Audio Coding, used by some broadcasters for audio exchange, storage.

Lame

A high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder.

opencore-amr

Audio codecs extracted from Android Open Source Project, including AAC.

Opus

A totally open, royalty-free, highly versatile audio codec.

In 2 lists

Turing Codec

An H.265/HEVC open source software encoder designed for fast and efficient video compression.

TwoLame

An MPEG Audio Layer 2 (MP2) encoder.

Communication

Intercom Manager

+ Intercom Frontend - Intercom system based on built by Eyevinn for SVT.

DYI intercom

Hardware + software intercom solution built around Murmur server and headless Mumble clients based on Rasperry Pi.

Companion Screens

dial-discovery-ios

A library for the discovery of devices via the DIAL protocol on the iOS platform.

dvbcss-synckit-ios

iOS libraries for companion screen applications that are synchronised frame-accurately to a TV.

dvbcss-synctiming

A system for measuring how accurately a TV or companion are synchronised.

pydvbcss

Implementation of the DVB Companion Screens and Streams protocols for synchronised media playback.

Connected TVs

CPA Authorization Provider

Reference implementation for linking media devices with online identities (related repos here).

HbbPlayer

An HbbTV and W3C specifications compliant application that can playback media from a URL.

In 2 lists

TAL

The TV Application Layer (TAL) is an open source library for building applications for Connected TV devices.

Control Systems

BUG

Broadcast Universal Gateway - Control a wide range of broadcast and network equipment from your browser.

Bitfocus Companion

Enables the Elgato Streamdeck and other controllers to be a shotbox surface for an increasing amount of broadcast equipment.

Lawo EmberPlus

Ember Plus - open protocol for interfacing to / from broadcast control systems.

MIDIMonster

Lightweight adapter tool for common show control protocols.

In 3 lists

Distributed Media Processing

StormCV

Apache Storm + OpenCV = large scale distributed image and video analysis.

Documentation

Kronekeeper

A web based application for recording and managing Krone frame records.

DVB & WiFi

DTT 2 IP

Broadcast to IP conversion for Wifi indoor coverage.

DVB Inspector

An open-source DVB analyzer.

In 2 lists

DVBlast

A simple and powerful MPEG-2/TS demux and streaming application.

In 2 lists

dvbshout

Tool to send DVB audio to a shoutcast server or a RTP stream.

Opencaster

A free and open source MPEG2 transport stream data generator and packet manipulator.

Project X

DVB demux tool.

ts2mpa

Simple tool to extract MPEG Audio from a MPEG Transport Stream (TS).

In 2 lists

TSDuck

Extensible toolkit for MPEG/DVB transport streams testing, monitoring, integration, debugging, and more.

WiFiBroadcast

Analog-like transmission of live video data.

Hybrid Radio

RadioDNS for Node.js

Perform RadioDNS resolutions and service lookups in node.js.

RadioDNS Manager

Platform to manage Hybrid Radio services, e.g. RadioVIS, RadioEPG and Service Following.

RadioTag.js

RadioTag client library in JavaScript.

RadioVIS Demo

RadioVIS client application in Python.

RadioVIS Html Player

RadioVIS Player using WebSocket.

RadioVIS Stomp Server

RadioVIS STOMP server written in node.js.

LiveIP

butt

broadcast using this tool (butt) is an easy to use, multi OS streaming tool. It supports SHOUTcast and Icecast.

Cool Mic

Android audio livestreaming Icecast source client app.

DarkIce

Live audio streamer that records and encodes from an audio interface and sends to a streaming server.

EBU LIST

Live IP Software Toolkit to assist EBU members in the implementation of IP based facilities.

Icecast

Streaming media (audio/video) server which supports Ogg (Vorbis and Theora), Opus, WebM and MP3.

In 2 lists

IRIS Broadcast

A project founded in Sweden to publish Open Source software for professional radio broadcasts.

Kamailio

Open SIP server, commonly used for Audio contribution over IP using SIP (EBU ACIP).

In 2 lists

OpenOB

Open Outside Broadcast project for radio contribution links and studio-transmitter links based on Opus.

PJSIP

Open Source multimedia library implementing SIP, SDP, RTP, STUN, TURN, and ICE.

In 2 lists

trx

A simple toolset for broadcasting live audio from Linux.

VideoIPath-Automation-Tool

A Python package for automating VideoIPath configuration workflows.

Media Players

Dash.js

A reference client implementation for the playback of MPEG DASH via Javascript and compliant browsers.

GPAC

Multimedia player, packager and tools.

In 2 lists

IDJC

A GTK+ Shoutcast/Icecast client with two main media players.

Kodi

A software media player and entertainment hub for digital media.

In 4 lists

Media4DPlayer

HTML5 player focused on accessibility.

MPD

A flexible, powerful, server-side application for playing music.

In 2 lists

mpg123

A fast console MPEG Audio Player and decoder library.

Mixxx

A free, open source DJ software.

In 4 listsDetails

Peaks.js

Browser-based audio waveform visualisation.

rx-player

HTML5/Javascript video player that supports MPEG-DASH and SmoothStreaming.

VLC

Simple, fast and powerful media player.

Metadata

BMXlib

Library and utilities to read and write broadcasting media files. Primarily supports the MXF file format.

EBUCore

The Github for maintenance of the EBUCore schema.

jebu-core

Java port of EBU Tech 3293 EBU Core metadata, including the Audio Definition Model.

libadm

Audio Definition Model (ITU-R BS.2076) handling C++11 library.

libklvanc

C library for ancillary data extraction from SDI and SMPTE ST 2110-40 (CEA-708, AFD, SCTE-104, etc.).

MAJ API

Pure Java library for reading and writing MXF and AAF files.

SDPoker

CLI tool and library for testing SMPTE ST2110 SDP files.

TV-Anytime

The TV-Anytime schema github maintenance page.

Monitoring & Quality Control

a_Multiview

A web based multiview for HLS and Youtube links.

BeaqleJS

A framework to create browser based listening tests for subjective audio quality assessment.

Jack Meter

Text console based DPM (Digital Peak Meter) for JACK.

Jmeters

A collection of graphical audio meters for JACK, including VU, PPM and EBU R 128 Loudness meters.

LTC-tools

A collection of tools to handle Linear Timecode (LTC) and convert to MIDI Timecode (MTC).

MediaConch

Implementation checker, policy checker, & reporter for Matroska, FFV1, & PCM.

In 2 lists

MediaInfo

A convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.

In 3 lists

MXF Inspect

A Windows tool to display the internal structure of an MXF (Material eXchange Format) file.

Pi Audio Monitor

Audio Monitoring for Raspberry Pi, supports S/PDIF, AES3, AES67, Livewire and Ravenna.

In 2 lists

Photon

Implementation of the SMPTE Interoperable Master Format (IMF) standard.

QCTools

Quality Control tools for video preservation to analyse digitized video files.

In 2 lists

Rotter

Recording of Transmissions / Audio Logger for JACK.

silan

Audiofile silence analyzer.

SilentJack

Dead-air / Silence detector for JACK.

Sonic Visualiser

An application for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files.

In 2 lists

VMAF

Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion.

In 3 lists

Wisual

A web service for Visual Quality Assessment, which supports PSNR, SSIM, VQM, etc.

In 2 lists

Multimedia content processing

AvTranscoder

FFmpeg/LibAV-based high-level API to re-wrap or transcode media, with bindings for Java and Python.

In 2 lists

Beam Coder

Node.js native bindings to FFmpeg, with support for asynchronous processing via promises and streams.

Bento4

Full-featured MP4 format and MPEG DASH C++ class library and tools.

In 2 lists

Brave

Basic Real-time AV Editor - lets you preview, mix, and route live audio and video streams on the cloud.

In 2 lists

Codem-isoboxer

A small browser-based MPEG-4 (ISOBMFF) parser.

Dynamorse

IT swiss army knife - a Node-RED media pipeline builder, adding professional media processing nodes.

EBU ADM Renderer

Reference implementation of the EBU ADM Renderer (EBU Tech 3388)

In 2 lists

FFmbc

FFmpeg customized for broadcast and professional usage.

In 2 lists

FFmpeg

A cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. Supports SMPTE ST 2110.

In 14 listsDetails

Flowblade

A multitrack non-linear video editor.

In 2 lists

GStreamer

A library for constructing graphs of media-handling components.

In 6 listsDetails

Kelvinadon

Node.JS pure Javascript module for streaming MXF files to and from JSON.

KFR

Fast, modern C++ DSP framework, DFT/FFT, Audio resampling, FIR/IIR, Biquad, EBU R 128.

In 3 lists

L-SMASH

A rigidly spec-compliant ISOBMFF library, which has full DASH muxing support.

LibAV

Open source audio and video processing tools.

In 3 lists

libbw64

Header-only Broadcast Wave 64 (ITU-R BS.2088) C++11 library.

libear

A C++11 library to render ADM content according to Recommendation ITU-R BS.2127.

Libebur128

A library that implements the EBU R 128 standard for loudness normalisation.

In 2 lists

Loudness Validator

A set of applications to analyse, visualise and correct the loudness.

MP4Box.js

JavaScript library to process MP4 files in the browser (and in NodeJS).

In 2 lists

MXFLib

A multi-platform C++ library for reading and writing MXF files.

OBS-Studio

Software for live streaming and screen recording.

In 9 listsDetails

Open Broadcast Encoder

Broadcast encoder built from Open Source components.

rgain3

Tools and Python3 library to read, write and calculate Replay Gain - fork of the original by Felix Krull.

rtmp

Server implementation of Adobe's RTMP 1.0 protocol in Go.

Snowmix

Live Video Mixer.

SoX

The Swiss Army knife of sound processing programs.

SVT Encore

Selfhosted video transcoding platform, built around FFmpeg.

TuttleOFX

An open source image processing framework based on OpenFX plugin standard.

In 2 lists

UPipe

Primarily designed to be the core of a multimedia player, transcoder or streamer.

VideoContext

Experimental HTML5/WebGL library for creating interactive and responsive web videos.

Voctomix

Customizable conference recording/mixing/streaming software based on Python and GStreamer.

In 2 lists

Network & Storage Testing

BBC Media Storage Meter

An application for the testing of network attached (professional media) storage.

Fio

Flexible I/O Tester

In 2 lists

iPerf3

The TCP, UDP and SCTP network bandwidth measurement tool.

In 2 lists

SMPTE 2110-20 Analyzer

Analyzer to inspect network packets generated in accordance with SMPTE ST 2110.

Wireshark dissector for TSL UMD protocol V3.1, V4

Analyzers for TSL UMD (under-monitor display) protocol V3.1 and V4.

Wireshark dissectors for Video Routers

Analyzers for various video router/matrix protocols.

Examples of SMPTE ST 2110 pcap files

NMOS

AMWA NMOS Testing Tool

Automated test suites for the AMWA NMOS family of specifications, as used in the JT-NM Tested programme

BBC NMOS Joint Reference Implementation

A Vagrant provisioning to build 4 virtual machines, an IS-04/IS-05 Node, IS-04 Registry, BCP-003-02 Authorisation Server, and the NMOS Testing Tool.

DELTACAST IP Virtual Card NMOS samples

A demonstration of the integration of several NMOS standards with the DELTACAST IP Virtual Card through nmos-cpp.

Easy-NMOS

A starter kit that allows the user to launch a simple NMOS setup with minimal installation steps, composed of three Docker containers: an NMOS Registry, a virtual NMOS Node, and the AMWA NMOS Testing Tool.

nmos-cpp

An implementation of the AMWA Networked Media Open Specifications in C++, including an NMOS Registry and a toolkit and example of building an NMOS Node.

nmos-device-control-mock

A mock device implementation of the NMOS Control & Monitoring suite (IS-12, BCP-008-01, BCP-008-02), written in Typescript and running on the NodeJS stack.

nmos-js

A simple browser-based NMOS Client/Controller with an IS-04 Registry browser and IS-05 Connection Management.

NVIDIA NMOS Docker

Docker container with Registry and Controller, IS-04/05/08/07/09, BCP-003-01

NVIDIA NMOS Library

(NvNmos) - A simple-to-use C/C++ library for adding an NMOS Node to your application, with support for IS-04, IS-05, BCP-002-01, BCP-002-02, BCP-004-01, etc.

Podcasting

AntennaPod

A podcast manager for Android (antennapod.org).

In 2 lists

Anytime Podcast Player

Free and easy to use podcast player for Android and iOS (anytimeplayer.app).

Castopod

Podcast Hosting and Broadcasting (castopod.org).

gPodder

Media aggregator and podcast client.

Podlove Publisher

Podcast Publisher for WordPress.

Podlove Web Player

Podcast-optimized, HTML5-based video and audio player.

Ultraschall

Suite of Plugins and UI tweaks to use with the DAW Reaper tailored towards Podcasters (ultraschall.fm)

Radio Production

Airtime

Radio management application for remote broadcast automation (via web-based schedule).

Ardour

A digital audio workstation.

In 10 listsDetails

Audacity

Cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.

In 11 listsDetails

AzuraCast

A self-hosted web radio management suite.

In 3 lists

LibreTime

Radio broadcast & automation platform (fork of Airtime).

In 2 lists

Liquidsoap

A Swiss army knife for multimedia streaming (documentation).

In 2 lists

OpenBroadcaster

Open Source LPFM IPTV Broadcast Automation. Server and Player code here.

RAAR

A ruby application to manage and browse an audio archive.

Rivendell

Complete radio broadcast automation solution, translated to many languages and used worldwide.

Rundown Automation

OnTime

Web based time keeping system for live events with a broadcast clock view.

In 2 lists

SuperConductor

Rundown/playout controller for CasparCG Server, BMD ATEM, OBS Studio, vMix, OSC-compatible devices, HTTP (REST)-compatible devices among others.

SCTE-35 & SCTE-104

threefive

SCTE-35 Parser and Encoder for MPEGTS.

wireshark-scte

SCTE-104 protocol dissector for Wireshark.

x9k3

Adaptive Bit Rate HLS Segmenter and SCTE-35 Injector.

Software-defined radio

GNU Radio

A software development toolkit that provides signal processing blocks to implement software radios.

Gqrx SDR

An open source software defined radio receiver (SDR).

ODR-mmbTools

Fork of CRC-mmbTools. Adds live, DAB+, associated data, distributed infrastructure, SFN.

rtl-sdr

Turns a Realtek RTL2832 based DVB dongle into a SDR receiver.

welle.io

An open source DAB and DAB+ software defined radio (SDR) with support for airspy and rtlsdr.

Streaming

Owncast

Selfhosted video streaming platform (https://owncast.online/)

In 5 listsDetails

PeerTube

ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser. (https://joinpeertube.org/)

In 4 lists

Subtitling

CCExtractor

A tool that analyzes video files and produces stand-alone subtitle files.

Dash.js

A reference client implementation for the playback of MPEG DASH via Javascript and compliant browsers.

EBU-TT-D W3C XML Schema

Informative EBU-TT-D XML Schema to support the implementation of EBU Tech 3380.

EBU-TT Live Interoperability Toolkit

Components for generating, testing and distributing EBU-TT Live subtitles.

GStreamer TTML subtitling package

A means for GStreamer pipelines to parse and render EBU-TT-D (TTML) subtitles.

imscJS

JavaScript library for rendering IMSC1 Text and Image Profile documents to HTML5.

In 2 lists

IRT EBU-TT-D Application Samples

EBU-TT-D sample files, PNG images and mp4 videos as rendering references.

Subtitle Edit

An editor for subtitles.

Subtitling Conversion Framework (SCF)

Modules for converting subtitle formats, incl. EBU STL and EBU-TT files.

In 2 lists

Timed Text Toolkit (ttt)

Tools that support/use the W3C Timed Text Markup Language (TTML).

ttconv

Subtitle conversion library and CLI tool. Converts between STL, SRT, TTML, SCC, TTML and WebVTT files.

In 2 lists

Video Production

ATEM Tally Light with ESP8266

Wireless tally light for ATEM switchers using an ESP8266 WiFi module, supporting unlimited tally units.

AutoMix

Web-based control surface for ATEM vision mixers with automated camera switching, designed for visualised radio.

MOS-connection

A JavaScript library for connection and MOS messaging either as MOS device or NRCS.

obs-shotlister

Camera shot queue manager for live productions with OBS Studio integration, LAN web monitoring, and OSC support.

Open Lighting Architecture (OLA)

Travel adaptor for the lighting industry, for interconnecting DMX-512, IP and USB.

In 2 lists

Q Light Controller+ (QLC+)

Cross-platform control of DMX or analogue lighting systems (heads, dimmers, etc.).

In 2 lists

QPrompt Teleprompter App

Convergent teleprompter software that works with studio teleprompters, tablet teleprompters, webcams, and phones.

TallyArbiter

Cross-platform Tally interfacer & tally lights for any camera via phones or low-cost hardware.

TallyLights

DIY tally lights supporting TSL 3.1 and 5.0 protocols, built around the WeMos D1 Mini microcontroller.

vMix-EmberPlus

vMix to EmberPlus gateway. Control vMix from any EmberPlus broadcast controller like Lawo's VSM or EVS's Cerebrum.

wifi-tally

Affordable WiFi-enabled tally light system based on NodeMCU/ESP8266, supporting multiple video mixers.

Blogs

BBC News Labs

Open Source projects from BBC News Labs.

BBC R&D

BBC Research and Development. Checkout the weekly notes.

3D CineCast

A curation about new media technologies.

Canal+

CANAL+ Open Source Community.

IRT Lab

IRT blog posting developments and demos for all digital audiovisual media technology.

The Netflix Tech Blog

A Netflix blog focused on technology and technology issues.

In 2 lists
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