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Clocks & Studio Screens

  • 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

  • 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

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

  • Cross-Platform Authentication

    CPA offers an open standard for associating any media device with an online identity

  • HbbPlayer

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

  • 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

  • Lawo EmberPlus

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

  • MIDIMonster

    Lightweight adapter tool for common show control protocols

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

  • DVBlast

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

  • 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)

  • TSDuck

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

  • WiFiBroadcast

    Analog-like transmission of live video data

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

  • Bridge

    Next generation graphics control software, with extension support

  • 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 ) and SVG (via ) graphics

  • Nebula

    Media asset management and broadcast automation system

  • NodeCG

    Broadcast graphics rendered in a browser using Node.js

  • 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

  • Studio TV Player

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

Hybrid Radio

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

  • 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)

  • 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

  • trx

    A simple toolset for broadcasting live audio from Linux

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

  • IDJC

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

  • Kodi

    A software media player and entertainment hub for digital media

  • Media4DPlayer

    HTML5 player focused on accessibility

  • MPD

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

  • mpg123

    A fast console MPEG Audio Player and decoder library

  • Mixxx

    A free, open source DJ software

  • 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

  • jebu-core

    Java port of EBU Core metadata, including the

  • 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

  • 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

  • JACK Meterbridge

    A collection of graphical Audio meters for JACK (ballistics may be incorrect)

  • Jmeters

    A collection of graphical audio meters for JACK, including VU, PPM and 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

  • MediaInfo

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

  • 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

  • Photon

    Implementation of the SMPTE Interoperable Master Format (IMF) standard

  • QCTools

    Quality Control tools for video preservation to analyse digitized video files

  • 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

  • VMAF

    Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion

  • Wisual

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

Multimedia content processing

  • AvTranscoder

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

  • 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

  • Brave

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

  • 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 ( )

  • FFmbc

    FFmpeg customized for broadcast and professional usage

  • FFmpeg

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

  • Flowblade

    A multitrack non-linear video editor

  • GStreamer

    A library for constructing graphs of media-handling components

  • 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

  • L-SMASH

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

  • LibAV

    Open source audio and video processing tools

  • 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

  • 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)

  • MXFLib

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

  • OBS-Studio

    Software for live streaming and screen recording

  • Open Broadcast Encoder

    Broadcast encoder built from Open Source components

  • rgain

    Tools and Python library to read, write and calculate Replay Gain

  • 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 plattform, built around FFmpeg

  • TuttleOFX

    An open source image processing framework based on OpenFX plugin standard

  • 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

Network & Storage Testing

NMOS

  • AMWA NMOS Testing Tool

    Automated test suites for the AMWA NMOS family of specifications, as used in the 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

  • 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-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 ( )

  • Anytime Podcast Player

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

  • Castopod

    Podcast Hosting and Broadcasting ( )

  • gPodder

    Media aggregator and podcast client ( )

  • Podlove Publisher

    Podcast Publisher for WordPress ( )

  • Podlove Web Player

    Podcast-optimized, HTML5-based video and audio player ( )

Radio Production

  • Airtime

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

  • Ardour

    A digital audio workstation

  • Audacity

    Cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds

  • AzuraCast

    A self-hosted web radio management suite

  • LibreTime

    Radio broadcast & automation platform (fork of Airtime)

  • Liquidsoap

    A Swiss army knife for multimedia streaming ( )

  • OpenBroadcaster

    Open Source LPFM IPTV Broadcast Automation.

  • RAAR

    A ruby application to manage and browse an audio archive

  • Rivendell

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

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

Subtitling

Communication

  • Intercom Manager

    + - 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

Video Production

  • 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

  • Open Lighting Architecture (OLA)

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

  • Q Light Controller+ (QLC+)

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

  • 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

Streaming

  • Owncast

    Selfhosted video streaming plattform ( )

  • PeerTube

    ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser. ( )

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