awesome-broadcasting
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A curated list of amazingly awesome open source resources related to broadcast technologies
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Broadcast toolkit
A curated collection of resources and tools for building broadcast technologies and applications
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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
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
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
- BBC Media Storage Meter
An application for the testing of network attached (professional media) storage
Fio
Flexible I/O Tester
- iPerf3
The TCP, UDP and SCTP network bandwidth measurement tool
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
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
- CCExtractor
A tool that analyzes video files and produces stand-alone subtitle files
EBU-TT-D Subtitling within dash.js
dash.js fork with EBU-TT-D subtitles in HTML/CSS overlay. Later added to
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 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
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
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
Resources / 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
- Youtube Engineering and Developers Blog
What's happening with engineering and developers at YouTube
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