Projects sharing features with Red5 Server

This project is a community-curated directory of open-source software designed for deployment in private server environments and home labs. It serves as a comprehensive resource for discovering independent, self-hosted alternatives to mainstream cloud services, enabling users to maintain full data ownership and control over their digital infrastructure. The directory is structured through a hierarchical taxonomy that organizes a vast collection of applications into logical categories, ranging from media management and data analytics to private communication and team productivity tools. It dis

MediaMTX is a multi-protocol media server designed for routing, proxying, and recording real-time audio and video streams. It functions as a programmable media router and a gateway between streaming standards such as RTMP, RTSP, and WebRTC, enabling the conversion of live media between different protocols. The server distinguishes itself through on-the-fly format transmuxing and protocol-agnostic routing, which decouples input and output protocols via an internal media bus. It features a programmable automation system that executes external shell commands via event hooks triggered by client c

The NGINX RTMP module is a server-side extension that functions as a live video streaming engine. It enables the ingestion, processing, and distribution of real-time audio and video feeds, supporting both RTMP and HLS protocols to facilitate media delivery to multiple clients. The module distinguishes itself by integrating directly into the host server event loop, allowing for high-concurrency network input and output without blocking the main thread. It provides a toolkit for managing media streams through event-driven callbacks, which can trigger external process invocations for custom tran

Cowboy is a high-performance HTTP server for Erlang and OTP. It is designed to handle web traffic with low memory usage and can be used as a standalone server or as an embedded networking library integrated directly into an existing application. The project implements modern transport protocols, including HTTP/3, QUIC, and WebTransport, to enable faster connections and bidirectional data streaming. It also functions as a real-time communication server supporting Server-Sent Events for pushing asynchronous updates to clients. Broad capabilities include path and content-type based request rout

This project is a comprehensive computer networking textbook and instructional resource. It serves as a technical guide for the design and implementation of network layers, protocols, and hardware architecture, covering the spectrum from physical links to application-layer protocols. The content provides a detailed study of standards for congestion control, reliable data delivery, and internetwork routing. It includes specialized technical material on network security, public-key infrastructure, and the operation of modern cloud infrastructure and data centers. The material covers a broad ra

ZLMediaKit is a high-concurrency streaming engine designed to function as a protocol gateway and media server. It provides a native development kit for embedding streaming and transcoding capabilities directly into custom applications, supporting the ingestion, distribution, and recording of live video feeds across various network protocols. The platform distinguishes itself through a high-performance architecture that bridges legacy surveillance protocols with modern web-compatible streaming standards. It utilizes a thread-per-core execution model and zero-copy buffer management to maintain

WildfireChat’s im-server is an open-source instant messaging backend that handles message routing, user management, and group chat for private deployments. It provides a self-hosted messaging platform that can run on private infrastructure without third-party cloud dependencies, supporting enterprise messaging with group management, user directories, and external system integration. The server synchronizes messages and state across mobile, desktop, web, and mini-program clients simultaneously, and supports real-time audio/video calls with group conferencing and live streaming. It includes enc

LiveTalking is an interactive talking head engine and AI avatar management platform designed to synchronize synthetic speech with facial movements. It functions as a real-time orchestrator that connects large language models and text-to-speech services to neural-rendered digital humans. The project distinguishes itself through low-latency streaming capabilities and the ability to handle real-time conversational interruptions. It supports advanced audio-visual customization, including human voice cloning and the ability to drive avatar expressions using real-time webcam data. The platform cov

Janus is a WebRTC media gateway that routes real-time audio, video, and data between web browsers and server-side application logic. It functions as a central media relay that manages session negotiation and encryption for multiple browser endpoints. The project utilizes a modular plugin architecture that decouples the core server from specific media logic, allowing developers to implement custom modules for media processing, event handling, and transport protocols. This design enables the server to act as a protocol translation bridge, converting WebRTC streams into legacy formats such as SI

Mattermost Server is an open source collaboration suite and self-hosted team communication platform. It functions as an enterprise chat server and extensible messaging backend that provides a secure environment for professional organizations to exchange messages and coordinate software development. The platform is designed as an AI-integrated communication hub, embedding artificial intelligence into messaging flows to assist users with information retrieval and task completion. It supports a high degree of customization through a plugin-based extension model, allowing for the creation of cust

Realtime is a real-time data distribution and synchronization engine that enables applications to stream database changes and coordinate state between clients. It functions as a synchronization layer that monitors database write-ahead logs to provide change data capture and pushes updates to authorized clients via WebSockets. The project features a real-time presence server for tracking the online status of active users and a broadcast service for sending ephemeral messages without database persistence. It organizes communication through channel-based message routing and uses a structured JSO

BrowserQuest is a WebSocket multiplayer game engine and real-time state synchronization tool. It functions as a web-based game server designed to manage concurrent connections and broadcast updates to maintain a consistent shared world state between a central server and distributed web clients. The project enables real-time multiplayer gaming and browser-based game development by implementing low-latency data exchange. It focuses on game state synchronization to ensure that multiple players interacting within the same environment see the same actions and world states simultaneously. The syst

netty-socketio is a Java implementation of a Socket.IO server designed for real-time bidirectional communication between clients and servers. It functions as a real-time event engine and WebSocket communication server, utilizing the Netty network framework to manage high-performance socket connections. The project enables distributed socket server scaling by acting as a distributed message broker. It synchronizes client states and broadcasts messages across multiple server nodes through the use of an external data store. The system manages traffic via namespace-based connection routing and r

Piknik is an encrypted clipboard relay and multiplexer that coordinates the sharing of text, binary data, and shell content across multiple network hosts. It utilizes a centralized relay architecture to manage secure client connections, providing an end-to-end encrypted system for synchronizing session state and data streams. The project distinguishes itself through the use of multi-stage key derivation and API key access control to secure remote shell access. It employs end-to-end encryption and digital signatures to protect relayed content, ensuring that data is encrypted at the source befo

Open-IM-Server is an instant messaging server and cross-platform messaging backend designed for real-time text and media communication. It provides a distributed chat architecture that coordinates user sessions and group communications across multiple server nodes to support millions of concurrent users. The system features a scalable message distribution model that utilizes asynchronous message pipelines and distributed queueing to maintain reliability during traffic spikes. It employs multi-level data caching across local memory and distributed stores to reduce latency and uses a document-b

AniCh is an anime streaming application and video streaming client that aggregates and plays episodes from multiple sources through a unified interface. It functions as an anime media catalog and content tracker, allowing users to discover series and manage their viewing progress. The platform integrates community interaction features, providing real-time synchronized comments and chat overlays during video playback. It also supports offline video playback by caching streaming data locally on the device. The system includes a user account system for registration and authentication to maintai

PiliPalaX is a video streaming mobile client designed for discovering and playing video content, including anime and live streams. It functions as a media content browser and a social media video platform, integrating video playback with community engagement features. The application includes a personalized video player with hardware acceleration and gesture-based controls for adjusting volume and brightness. It also incorporates privacy-focused tools, such as incognito browsing modes and user-blocking capabilities to control content visibility. The system covers broad capability areas inclu

go-socket.io is a Go implementation of the Socket.IO protocol used to build real-time, bidirectional, and event-driven communication between servers and clients. It functions as a communication framework that manages persistent connections and maps incoming network packets to specific handler functions to execute application logic. The library enables horizontal scaling of real-time connections through a distributed pub/sub adapter, which synchronizes events across multiple server instances using an external data store. It ensures reliability across different network environments by automatic

VDO.Ninja is a low-latency peer-to-peer media routing service and video streaming platform designed to integrate remote audio and video feeds into professional production workflows. It functions as a WebRTC broadcast integration tool and studio controller, allowing for the direct transmission of high-definition media between publishers and viewers with minimal delay. The platform distinguishes itself through extensive protocol bridging, converting between WebRTC, WHIP, WHEP, SRT, and RTMP to ensure compatibility across diverse network environments and professional studio software. It includes

Tide is an asynchronous web server framework and HTTP toolkit for the Rust programming language. It provides a system for building high-concurrency network applications and REST APIs using non-blocking I/O and asynchronous runtimes. The framework is centered around a middleware-based request pipeline, allowing developers to intercept and process HTTP requests and responses through pluggable logic layers. It supports a hierarchical route tree to organize endpoints into nested groups that share common path prefixes and scoped middleware. Capability areas include real-time communication via Web

Salvo is a comprehensive Rust web framework for building asynchronous HTTP servers and web applications. It features a hierarchical web router that uses a tree-based structure to map requests to handlers and an asynchronous middleware pipeline based on the onion model for request and response pre- and post-processing. The framework is distinguished by its native support for modern network protocols, including a QUIC-based HTTP/3 implementation alongside HTTP/1 and HTTP/2. It includes an integrated OpenAPI documentation generator that extracts schemas directly from handler signatures to produc

This repository contains the HTML specification, which defines the core standards for web page structuring, content organization, and document rendering. It establishes the fundamental algorithms for state-machine-based tokenization, tree construction for the document object model, and origin-based security isolation. The specification provides a framework for defining custom elements with independent lifecycles and registries. It also details the requirements for cross-document communication, session history management, and the synchronization of interface properties with content attributes.

Yoga is a GraphQL server framework and runtime-agnostic HTTP handler used to build and deploy GraphQL APIs. It functions as a toolkit for managing schemas and resolvers, providing a spec-compliant environment for hosting APIs across diverse JavaScript runtimes, including Node.js, Deno, Bun, and serverless cloud environments. The project distinguishes itself through its ability to act as an Apollo Federation gateway, composing multiple subgraphs into a single unified supergraph. It also serves as a dedicated subscription server, delivering real-time data streaming via both WebSockets and Serve

FastHTML is a full-stack Python web framework designed for building interactive web applications using pure Python. It functions as an HTMX integration framework and a Python HTML domain-specific language, allowing developers to generate HTML structures using native objects and functions instead of external templating files. The framework is distinguished by its native support for real-time bidirectional communication via WebSockets and Server-Sent Events, enabling server-side updates to be pushed to the browser without full page reloads. It further integrates identity management through OAut

OkHttp is an HTTP client for the JVM and Android that enables network communication via synchronous and asynchronous requests. It provides a core identity as a comprehensive networking toolkit featuring a WebSocket client for bidirectional data synchronization, a TLS security toolkit for encrypted communication, and a programmable HTTP mock server for simulating backend responses. The project distinguishes itself through a specialized security and performance architecture. It implements mutual TLS, certificate pinning, and DNS over HTTPS to secure data in transit, while utilizing connection p

Mediasoup is a selective forwarding unit used for real-time media routing. It enables the development of low-latency audio and video communication systems by routing streams between participants without transcoding. The project provides embedded media routing logic that can be integrated directly into an application. It supports simulcast and quality layering, allowing the system to adapt resolution and bitrate based on real-time bandwidth estimations to maintain connection stability. The capability surface includes media track management for audio, video, and screen capture, as well as bidi

Mastodon is a self-hosted, decentralized social networking platform that functions as a microblogging application. It enables independent server instances to communicate and exchange social data through the standardized ActivityPub protocol, allowing users to participate in a global, interoperable network. The platform distinguishes itself through its federated architecture, which grants administrators full control over their community instances. This includes comprehensive tools for user moderation, account management, and the enforcement of community guidelines. The system is designed to ha