https://github.com/CasparCG/server

CasparCG Server is a Windows and Linux software used to play out professional graphics, audio and video to multiple outputs. It has been in 24/7 broadcast production since 2006. Ready-to-use downloads are available under the Releases tab https://casparcg.com.
https://github.com/CasparCG/server

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CasparCG Server is a Windows and Linux software used to play out professional graphics, audio and video to multiple outputs. It has been in 24/7 broadcast production since 2006. Ready-to-use downloads are available under the Releases tab https://casparcg.com.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/CasparCG/server
• Owner: CasparCG
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2013-03-26T06:32:20.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-09-16T10:39:36.000Z (about 2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-17T09:00:01.944Z (about 2 months ago)
• Topics: broadcast, broadcasting, c-plus-plus, casparcg, casparcg-server, graphics, graphics-engine, professional, streaming-video, video-player, video-recording, video-streaming
• Language: C++
• Homepage:
• Size: 252 MB
• Stars: 902
• Watchers: 102
• Forks: 269
• Open Issues: 226
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • License: LICENSE
  • Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

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README

        
CasparCG Server

===============

Thank you for your interest in CasparCG Server, a professional software used to

play out and record professional graphics, audio and video to multiple outputs.

CasparCG Server has been in 24/7 broadcast production since 2006.

The CasparCG Server works on Windows and Linux.

System Requirements

-------------------

- A graphics card (GPU) capable of OpenGL 4.5 is required.

- An Nvidia GPU is recommended, but other GPU's will likely work fine.

- Intel and AMD CPU's have been tested and are known to work

- PCIE bandwidth is important between your GPU and CPU, as well as Decklink and CPU. Avoid chipset lanes when possible.

### Windows

 - Only Windows 10 is supported

### Linux

 - Ubuntu 22.04 or 24.04 are recommended

 - Other distributions and releases will work but have not been tested

Getting Started

---------------

1. Download a release from (http://casparcg.com/downloads).

   Alternatively, newer testing versions can be downloaded from (http://builds.casparcg.com) or [built from source](BUILDING.md)

2. Install any optional non-GPL modules

    - Flash template support (Windows only):

    1. Uninstall any previous version of the Adobe Flash Player using this file:

        (http://download.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/support/uninstall_flash_player.exe)

    2. Download and unpack

        (http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/installers/archive/fp_11.8.800.94_archive.zip)

    3. Install Adobe Flash Player 11.8.800.94 from the unpacked archive:

        fp_11.8.800.94_archive\11_8_r800_94\flashplayer11_8r800_94_winax.exe

3. Configure the server by editing the self-documented "casparcg.config" file in

   a text editor.

4.

   1. Windows: start `casparcg_auto_restart.bat`, or `casparcg.exe` and `scanner.exe` separately.

   1. Linux: start the `run.sh` program or use tools/linux/start_docker.sh to run within docker (documentation is at the top of the file).

5. Connect to the Server from a client software, such as the "CasparCG Client"

   which is available as a separate download.

Documentation

-------------

The most up-to-date documentation is always available at

https://github.com/CasparCG/help/wiki

Ask questions in the forum: https://casparcgforum.org/

Development

-----------

See [BUILDING](BUILDING.md) for instructions on how to build the CasparCG Server from source manually.

License

---------

CasparCG Server is distributed under the GNU General Public License GPLv3 or

higher, see [LICENSE](LICENSE) for details.

CasparCG Server uses the following third party libraries:

- FFmpeg (http://ffmpeg.org/) under the GPLv2 Licence.

  FFmpeg is a trademark of Fabrice Bellard, originator of the FFmpeg project.

- Threading Building Blocks (http://www.threadingbuildingblocks.org/) library under the GPLv2 Licence.

- FreeImage (http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/) under the GPLv2 License.

- SFML (http://www.sfml-dev.org/) under the zlib/libpng License.

- GLEW (http://glew.sourceforge.net) under the modified BSD License.

- boost (http://www.boost.org/) under the Boost Software License, version 1.0.