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A curated list of amazingly awesome open source resources related to broadcast technologies
https://github.com/ebu/awesome-broadcasting

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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • DVB & WiFi

    • DVB Inspector - An open-source DVB analyzer.
    • DVBlast - A simple and powerful MPEG-2/TS demux and streaming application.
    • Opencaster - A free and open source MPEG2 transport stream data generator and packet manipulator.
    • Project X - DVB demux tool.
    • 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

    • Blender - 3D creation suite supporting 3D modelling, animation, motion tracking, video editing, and more.
    • CasparCG - A professional graphics and video play-out software, proven in 24/7 broadcasts since 2006.
    • Nebula - Media asset management and broadcast automation system.
    • NodeCG - Broadcast graphics rendered in a browser using Node.js.
    • ossia - A free and open-source intermedia sequencer.

  • 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.
    • Icecast - Streaming media (audio/video) server which supports Ogg (Vorbis and Theora), Opus, WebM and MP3.
    • Kamailio - Open SIP server, commonly used for Audio contribution over IP using SIP (EBU ACIP).
    • 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

    • IDJC - A GTK+ Shoutcast/Icecast client with two main media players.
    • 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.
    • 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.

  • Monitoring & Quality Control

    • 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 [EBU R 128](https://tech.ebu.ch/publications/r128) Loudness meters.
    • 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.
    • Sonic Visualiser - An application for viewing and analysing the contents of music audio files.

  • Multimedia content processing

    • FFmpeg - A cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. Supports SMPTE ST 2110.
    • GStreamer - A library for constructing graphs of media-handling components.
    • KFR - Fast, modern C++ DSP framework, DFT/FFT, Audio resampling, FIR/IIR, Biquad, EBU R 128.
    • LibAV - Open source audio and video processing tools.
    • MXFLib - A multi-platform C++ library for reading and writing MXF files.
    • Open Broadcast Encoder - Broadcast encoder built from Open Source components.
    • rgain - Tools and Python library to read, write and calculate Replay Gain.
    • Snowmix - Live Video Mixer.
    • SoX - The Swiss Army knife of sound processing programs.

  • Network & Storage Testing

    • BBC Media Storage Meter - An application for the testing of network attached (professional media) storage.
    • iPerf3 - The TCP, UDP and SCTP network bandwidth measurement tool.

  • NMOS

  • Radio Production

    • Ardour - A digital audio workstation.
    • Audacity - Cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.
    • LibreTime - Radio broadcast & automation platform (fork of Airtime).
    • OpenBroadcaster

  • 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

  • Video Production

    • 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.

  • Blogs

  • 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 - Full with changed layout, added timers and network capabilities.
    • PiRSClock-Full - Radio Studio Clock with studio indicators for mics, telephones etc.

  • 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.
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Categories
Blogs 13 Multimedia content processing 9 LiveIP 7 Media Players 6 DVB & WiFi 6 Codecs 6 Monitoring & Quality Control 5 Software-defined radio 5 Animation, Graphics & Video Playout 5 Clocks & Studio Screens 4 Radio Production 4 Video Production 4 Companion Screens 4 Subtitling 3 NMOS 3 Connected TVs 2 Network & Storage Testing 2 Metadata 1
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