Broadcasting
Contents_Index
- ANIMATION, GRAPHICS & VIDEO PLAYOUT14
- CLOCKS & STUDIO SCREENS5
- CODECS6
- COMMUNICATION2
- COMPANION SCREENS4
- CONNECTED TVS3
- CONTROL SYSTEMS4
- DISTRIBUTED MEDIA PROCESSING1
- DOCUMENTATION1
- DVB & WIFI9
- HYBRID RADIO6
- LIVEIP11
- MEDIA PLAYERS11
- METADATA8
- MONITORING & QUALITY CONTROL17
- MULTIMEDIA CONTENT PROCESSING32
- NETWORK & STORAGE TESTING7
- NMOS9
- PODCASTING7
- RADIO PRODUCTION9
- RUNDOWN AUTOMATION2
- SCTE-352
- SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIO5
- STREAMING2
- SUBTITLING10
- VIDEO PRODUCTION7
- BLOGS6
Animation, Graphics & Video Playout
14_ENTRIES- Aurena
A network distributed media playback system.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
5_ENTRIES- 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
6_ENTRIES- 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.
Communication
2_ENTRIES- 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
4_ENTRIES- 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
3_ENTRIES- 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.
- TAL
The TV Application Layer (TAL) is an open source library for building applications for Connected TV devices.
Control Systems
4_ENTRIES- 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.
Distributed Media Processing
1_ENTRIES- StormCV
Apache Storm + OpenCV = large scale distributed image and video analysis.
Documentation
1_ENTRIES- Kronekeeper
A web based application for recording and managing Krone frame records.
DVB & WiFi
9_ENTRIES- 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.
Hybrid Radio
6_ENTRIES- 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
11_ENTRIESAudio/Video over IP & Streaming
- See the NMOS list for the AMWA Networked Media Open Specifications and open source implementations and tools.
- 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.
- VideoIPath-Automation-Tool
A Python package for automating VideoIPath configuration workflows.
Media Players
11_ENTRIES- 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
8_ENTRIES- 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
17_ENTRIES- 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.
- 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
32_ENTRIES- 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 (EBU Tech 3388)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
7_ENTRIES- 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
9_ENTRIESThe Networked Media Open Specifications are themselves open source.
- 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
7_ENTRIES- AntennaPod
A podcast manager for Android (antennapod.org).
- 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.org).
- Podlove Web Player
Podcast-optimized, HTML5-based video and audio player (podlove.org).
- Ultraschall
Suite of Plugins and UI tweaks to use with the DAW Reaper tailored towards Podcasters (ultraschall.fm)
Radio Production
9_ENTRIES- 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 (documentation).
- 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
2_ENTRIES- OnTime
Web based time keeping system for live events with a broadcast clock view.
- SuperConductor
Rundown/playout controller for CasparCG Server, BMD ATEM, OBS Studio, vMix, OSC-compatible devices, HTTP (REST)-compatible devices among others.
SCTE-35
2_ENTRIESSoftware-defined radio
5_ENTRIES- 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
2_ENTRIES- Owncast
Selfhosted video streaming platform (https://owncast.online/)
- PeerTube
ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser. (https://joinpeertube.org/)
Subtitling
10_ENTRIES- 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 dash.js.
- 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.
- 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.
- Timed Text Toolkit (ttt)
Tools that support/use the W3C Timed Text Markup Language (TTML).
Video Production
7_ENTRIESVarious resources, such as books, websites and articles, for improving your skills and knowledge.
- 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.
- vMix-EmberPlus
vMix to EmberPlus gateway. Control vMix from any EmberPlus broadcast controller like Lawo's VSM or EVS's Cerebrum.
Blogs
6_ENTRIES- 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.