Best self-hosted Media Streaming - Video Streaming apps

SRS

★ 28,993

A simple, high efficiency and real-time video server, supports RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, HTTP-FLV and SRT.

Invidious

★ 20,455

Alternative YouTube front-end.

PeerTube

★ 14,771

Decentralized video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent) directly in the web browser.

Owncast

★ 11,365

Decentralized single-user live video streaming and chat server for running your own live streams similar in style to the large mainstream options.

Tube Archivist

★ 8,145

Organize, search, and enjoy your YouTube collection. Subscribe, download, and track viewed content with metadata indexing and a user-friendly interface.

Restreamer

★ 5,081

Access H.264 real-time video streaming on your website without a streaming provider.

MediaCMS

★ 4,976

Modern, fully featured open source video and media CMS, written in Python/Django/React, featuring a REST API.

OvenMediaEngine

★ 3,176

Streaming Server with Sub-Second Latency.

CyTube

★ 1,574

Synchronize media, chat, and more for an arbitrary number of channels.

Rapidbay

★ 873

Videostreaming service/torrent client that allows searching and playing videos from torrents in the browser or from a Chromecast/AppleTV/Smart TV.

SyncTube

★ 378

Lightweight and very simple to setup CyTube alternative to watch videos with friends and chat.

Emby

Home media server supporting both DLNA and DIAL (Chromecast) devices out-of-the-box.

Plex

Centralized home media playback system with a powerful central server.

Subsonic

Web-based media streamer and jukebox.

Tube

Youtube-like (_without censorship and features you don't need!_) video sharing app written in Go which also supports automatic transcoding to MP4 H.265 AAC, multiple collections and RSS feed.

VideoLAN Client (VLC)

Cross-platform multimedia player client and server supporting most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.